Proposals

Yo YA's

just noticed Rearview has proposals open for 2012, they are super chill and just except whatever as an application. If you're interested you should talk to Paul who runs the place, he's a super nice guy and up to talk about the potential for ideas.

http://www.rearviewgallery.com.au/proposals/

new website!

Nic

Remedy Part 3

Hi All

Here is the third installment of remedy, this part has the skipping performance, enjoy. I know its a little small if anyone wants a copy you can give me a dvd write so I can copy it in a higher resolution that works o a DVD Player.

Cheers Aaron

next YA meeting :)

Hi all,

I think I just sent an old email so please disregard it. Sorry for any confusion.

This week YA will be meeting on Friday 17th at 5pm in Inez's studio again (is that ok Inez?) I think this works well as everyone will be finished assessment.

We can talk more about Gui's idea, and we thought that it might be nice to do a few trust exercises so that we can create a space where people feel like they can be open with each other (perhaps an important starting point to this exciting project).

Another thing I've been meaning to say is that as it stands I have a list of about 60 people that I email. Obviously not all of the 60 come to meetings, and it can get a bit unmanageable at times so I'm going to cut down the list to the people that have actually been coming to meetings, unless people expressly want to be notified. So, please email me and tell me if you still want to be on the list otherwise I will only keep the people who have been coming. It's time to get serious :)

Perhaps on Friday we can also talk about different possible ways of structuring YA organizationally, creatively, etc.... I had a tute with Lisa Radford a couple of weeks ago to talk about YA/DAMP/Collectives generally and she had some really great advice on how to run/ keep the momentum going with these things....she also gave me a lot of great books/shows to look at that look at Collectives and Collaborative practise, so I will post these on the blog. So yeah, maybe we can discuss these things.

So Friday 17th 5pm, Inez's studio..... See you all then if not before :) xx

Remedy Part 2

Hi Ya all

Here is the second installment of Remedy,

some more Great Performances,

'let your eyes' indulge on the feast that is Remedy'.

Remedy part 2

Cheers Aaron

Remedy part 1

Hi People

Remedy was a big success, Thank you to Georgie for organizing it

you did a fantastic job, and thank you to all the acts that performed

they were fantastic and Intresting.

so Here is the first installment of the Performance

'Remedy Part1' enjoy everyone.

Cheers Aaron

Well done to everyone at Remedy last night!!! Big thanks to Georgie for organizing such a swell evening.

Maybe Aaron could upload some of the video onto the blog for those who missed it?

Sorry to the acts whom i don't have photographs of mainly Mina's wonderful hot dog eating piece and the Art school Non orchestra (I couldn't bang a guitar and photograph at the same time!).

Here ya go peeps, enjoy.

x Sarah K

National Emerging Artists Award, Acquisitive Award $5, 000

Hi All

Here is a competition for everyone to enter the National Emerging Artists Award, Acquisitive Award $5, 000, heres the link for the internet http://opps.artabase.net/?p=370

The Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award is a national bi-annual exhibition and art prize that was officially set-up as an acquisitive prize for the Lane Cove Council in recognition of Lloyd Rees’s great support of the local art community and the special relationship that he had with Lane Cove and Centrehouse Community Art Centre from its inception.

The Award is open to all Australian artists 18 – 28 yrs of age for works in painting, printmaking and drawing. This year’s judges are artist Guy Warren and Glenn Barkley, curator for the Museum of Contemporary Art.

Unfortunatly I cannot enter but you younger YA members can. Good Luck

1st Silent Crits photos

1st Silent Crits

silent crits

Forgot to mention, that silent crits are on again this week if people want them?.... I think Lotte wanted to go this week, so if we meet in her studio at 11.30 on Friday we can go from there. Let me know if you want your studio work to be dne as well :) xx

this week's meeting :)

Hey all,

so we are going to meet this Thursday (the 2nd of June).... Nic is having a show at Art Beat and it's opening that night at 6pm (is that right Nic?) so I was thinking it would be a good idea if we me at 5pm and then went to Nic's, what do people think?

We have decided to meet in Inez's Honours studio (the Von Gerrard space VCA Artschool) as we have been having some teething problems the las few weeks with meeting up. So hopefully that will be easier.

For anyone who hasn't done their popswap, bring that along and there are still a few ideas for projects that people what to air :)

I will post Gui's dvd on the blog, so check that out when you canh and we will discuss it more when we meet!

Also, a reminder..... Remedy is on this week, Wednesday 5pm..... Come along to the Margaret Lawrence Gallery for a great night of performance!!!!...if anyone wants to perform who hasn't yet ligned it up with me, tere's stll time so yell out :)

Alright, that's it for now...

A Bientot, Georgie :)

Hey folks,

Here the word from Trocadero!

Having completely filled the 2011 Calendar, Trocadero are looking forward to 2012 and are now accepting proposals for galleries 1,2 and our Billboard space. Emerging and established artists welcome. For proposal requirements visit: http://www.trocaderoartspace.com.au/proposals All other inquiries contact the committee at: trocaderoartspace@gmail.com

YA footage! :D

Here's some footage from the last 2 YA meet ups :) hope you all enjoy them. The 1st 2 are from Marc so thanks to him :) :) xx

Friday night

Hello everybody! Minna here. Kenny and myself are in this exhibition 'AN INDISPENSABLE ITEM' at Gilligan Grant Gallery (1B Stanley St Collingwood, just off Smith St). It opens on Friday night the 13th at 6pm and it would be super if you could make it! All the works have been done on linen tea towels. Here is an image of one of the works I will be exhibiting. Hope to see you there in full YA force! :)

film we watched last friday

"The Perfect Vagina"

http://vimeo.com/4704237

have a squiz

sarah jane

YA facebook group

Hey guys, I've made a facebook group for YA! I thought it might be another good way for us to communicate (updates, group events) and have a presence. So if you have facebook you should join! Here's the link: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/home.php?sk=group_112206388865295

Oh and I've made it an open group but I think I still have to approve members, does anyone know if there's a way to make it so anyone can join, and I don't have to approve them?

Silent Crits!!!!!

Hey guys,

So following up on Craig's idea of silent crits......which is (for anyone who wasn't there) where a group of people sit for a period of time with someone's work in silence, and write down anything that comes to mind. This could range from something as simple as how the work makes them feel, to poetry, to HARD CORE critique :) anyways whatever!

I think it's a really great idea as it takes away the pressure of talking on the spot about someone's work, + it allows space for so much more to be said, and in so many different ways/forms. I think we discussed that it would be anonymous as well which is kinda nice.

So........we thought we should get started on this! A really easy way of doing this would be to allocate a time each week (depending on how many participants we get) and to go around to people's studios, as the work is already set up and ready to go!!!!!!.....oooorrrrr we could look into getting the utility room or something similar if people wanted to set up their work in a clean separate space.

So who wnats to be involved????? Let me or Craig know and we will organise the 1st session!.... I'll post this on the blog tooooooo!

See youse :) x

Photo's from the last YA meeting!!! Enjoy :)

Looking forward to seeing you all on Friday for the pop swap extravaganza.

Heart folks, Sarah K.

hi Jonni, (who works on aThursday so we haven't met you)
Sorry I can't sms.
So if you read this : IS THE ARTIST LUCA you mentioned LUCA CUDIGNOTTO ?
If it is I'd love to see his work.
Or to see him perform and /or speak.
So if the Luca you referred to is Luca Cudignotto can you please advise on this ya blog where we can see him/his work.
Thanks
Jo

hi

Hi Ya Collective Bloggers

Sorry I couldn't make it to the meeting on the21st of April 2011.
Georgie helped me to get onto this blog when she came for dinner tonight.
I'll have a look around the blog now.
I'll report in later.
:)
Joanne

Next Meeting

Hey all, I realised that in my last email I said we will meet on the 6th May (which is a Friday).... I meant to say the 5th which a Thursday as per usual....a few people have expressed an interest in meeting sometimes on a Friday though sooooooo just thought I'd ask what day people would prefer for this week?

Let me know x

YA YA YA

Hey 'YA'LL!
Here are the minutes from the last meeting and some photographs from my disposable camera. If anyone else has photos or anything you should post them up here! Looking forward to the next meeting.
Love,
Minna

P.S Georgie already told you all in a post, but just a reminder that we are going to Heide gallery tomorrow! All are welcome. Meeting at Heidelberg station at 11am! It will be such a nice day. Hope to see you there :)

recent email

Hi all,

the next meeting will be on the 6th of May at Port Melbourne :) .........bring something for the Pop-swap (that Louis pitched at the last meeting!) So for people who weren't there, the idea is to bring along to the meeting something (could be a book, film, article, image, whatever really) that has been/is important or inspiring or instrumental in their life, practice, development etc....and we put them all in the middle of the room and each person takes someone else's thing to read, watch, spend time with. We will name them all so that everyone gets theirs back, but it's important that everyone who wants to partake brings something so that we have enough for everyone!

So remember to bring something and we'll do that! :)

Some other things, Craig and I were agreeing that having music in the space last Thursday was really great, that it created a whole different vibe, and that it really altered the way people engaged with the materials we were creating from for the better!....this goes for the guitar playing, and the improvised instrumentals that came later in the night :) if people wanted to bring along stuff to make music with (could be formal instruments or just things that could potentially make sound or music!!!!) this could be fun!!!!! I'm gonna bring my Clarinet for example!.....so yeah, bring whatever and let's jam!

On this note, I've forgotten who (maybe Louis????) had the idea that we could do a performance of the sort that occurred at the meeting last time at Remedy! What do people think?.....for anyone not from VCA, Remedy is a performance night that the Painting Department puts on each semester where students have the opportunity to perform. From music, to sound, to different varieties of Performance Art, Remedy is a platform for our performance ideas and dreams to be realized in a supportive and open environment!.....we do not have the date of this semesters yet, but I will get onto John (who runs it) and forward you all the details asap. We were thinking we could even bring up some materials like last week and make stuf on stage. If people are interested in this, let me know and we can toss around some ideas :) I for one am really keen!

Just a few more things I swear....

The Painting department's show is coming up (opening night is the 3rd of May which is the Tuesday after the break)....it's gonna be REAL fun and features only PAINTING, champagne, AND a live jazz quartet!!!! :) so come along to the Student Gallery at 5pm. Oh and it's a black tie event!

A group of us are going to Heide this coming Wednesday (the 27th) meeting at Heidelberg Station at 11am, we're gonna have a picnic so bring food! It's gonna be 23% YAY! I've texted some people already, but the more the merrier :) so spread the word!

Ok, I think that is finally it. I might post this email on the blog too, so people can respond with ideas, thoughts, etc....

I'll email you all soon about more stuf to do with the next meeting.

Georgie xx

Hey guys ! I haven't had the pleasure all of you yet (I work every thursday :( ) . However, if any of guys are free there is an amazing spoken word exhibition featuring UK and local artists. I have seen of one of the artist Luca at the Victorian Spoken Word Championships and WOW is all have to say. All the information is above. If you would like to go shoot me a sms at 0410736085 !

Cheers ^.^

Exhibitions this week

Hey guys,

also......a few of us were thinking of heading to Heide this week on Wednesday (seeing as it's the holidays and it's gonna be 23!!!! ) Anyone wanna come and see some Art and picnic in the gardens?

Here is the link of what's on at the moment....

http://www.heide.com.au/exhibitions.php

Also, Kate Just's show is opening this Thursday (the 28th of April) at 6pm.... I know a few of us are gonna get to that also so if you're free come along! :) The address is 31 Flinders Lane and the show is called Unearthed. Here is the link to that.....

http://craftvic.org.au/whats-on/exhibitions/kate-just-unearthed

If anyone know of any other shows on that they're interested in put it up :)

video footage anyone?????

Hey does anyone have any video footage of the last meting?.... I forgot to bring my camera :( and it would be great to get some footage uplaoaded to the blog, also it would be great for our presentation for CFI!!!! :)

Hello folks...

Just following up on a few things from this Thurday's meeting :-)

The article I mentioned about an amateur attitude to art making is by Simon Leys in The Angel & The Octopus. It is called An Amateur Artist: Fairweather in Chinese perspective. I tried to work out how to upload the .pdf but no joy. It is definitely worth hunting down.

The other thing I wanted to mention was the idea for a Silent Response to people's work. The idea would be to respond to someone's work silently by writing down any feelings / criticism / ideas that the work produces for you. This feedback would be given to the artist at the end of the session. The responses remain anonymous and are intended to help the artist see their practice through the eyes of another. It's also an opportunity to respond to someone's work without having to talk (and in that sense it is freer) and an opportunity to engage with someone's work in silence. It would also be a good way to develop a way of writing if that's what you're interested in. The idea is open... everything from criticism to poetry is valid and obviously if you're partaking in giving the feedback, there'd be an opportunity to receive feedback as well.

If you're interested come an talk to me and we can arrange an initial session in someone's studio!

Oh and there was that idea by Deleuze about being the artist being the first audience member of their work... that the artist calls an audience into being.

The quote I was thinking of is:

"for, if the people are missing, if they are breaking up into minorities, it is I who am the first of all a people, the people of my atoms"

Simon O'Sullivan has written an article called Notes Towards a Minor Art Practice based on Deleuze's Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature.

Here's the link www.simonosullivan.net/articles/minor-literature.pdf

Deleuze's definition of majority/minority in interesting:

‘the difference between minorities and majorities isn’t their size. A minority may be bigger than a majority. What defines majority is a model you have to conform to ... A minority, on the other hand, has no model, it’s a becoming, a process’

Stephen Zepke has also written some good stuff on Deleuze and Art and there's a few of his books in the library... there's a new book that's just been ordered called Deleuze and Contemporary Art.


Ok that's it for me! Have a great couple of weeks :-)
craig

Painting Show

So our Painting show is coming up straight after the holidays!!!! :) the opening night will be on the Tuesday we get back (so the 3rd of May).......

Everyone is welcome! We will be selling the paintings (YES, paintings!!!!) for $5 a pop so come ready to invest!

The Painting Department is coming up in the world, as the event will be black tie and the night will feature a Jazz Quartet....

So come sip champagne with us, listen to Jazz, and...

....................................... for one night realise that Painting is NOT dead!

Exhibition openings Wednesday 20th of April!

TRANS

TUESDAY 19 APRIL TO FRIDAY 29 APRIL
OPENING WEDNESDAY 20 APRIL 5-7PM

Robbie Dixon
Marisa Ramos

Curated by Stephen Gallagher

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ENCOUNTERS

Curated by Brad Rusbridge and Zoe Evershed

ELROY HENDRICKS

JOHN BUTTON

VITA CELESTINO

BEVERLY DUNCOMBE

LORETTA LYNCH

MATTHEW SOTIROPOULOS

JOHN WADDINGTON

BRADLEY WATTS

Opening Night Drinks: Wednesday 20th April

6 - 8pm

Exhibition Dates: 20th April - 7th May 2011
Gallery Hours: Wednesday to Saturday 12 - 5pm

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Jan also mentioned John Wolseley exhibition at Australian Galleries (opening on Wed night - Derby st Gallery) but we couldn't find info on the website so maybe best to contact the gallery directly. 9417 4303

Now Ve Are Young Artistes, Darlinks!

Hello my Friends

Congrats on getting the blog and the co-operative up and running, and for allowing those of us who are not so young, but are definitely young-at-heart to join in. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I'm so excited by this group. You are all so talented and enthusiastic and warm and welcoming, it is a privilege to be part of it. Afterall, the Situationists, the Dadaists, the Viennese Aktionists, DAMP, they all must've started out in a group like ours. Yay, yay, YEAH!!!

May I add just one wee little beastie thing. My heart sank a smidgen when I saw the letters 'INC' after our name. Maybe I'm being a little too sensitive, but having worked in the corporate system and my spirit having died a thousand deaths whilst doing so, I felt a bit depressed. I'm sure you know that an organisation incorporates into a company and takes on the suffix 'inc' purely to announce to the world that they are now operating to make a profit ie. are happy to exploit the weak and vulnerable 'losers' of this world, in order to become 'winners'. Seems so far removed from our lovely collective of people who care muchly about each other, the community and the joyful nature of being involved in doing creative things together. Not saying that we can't make a living from our art, but surely that isn't the reason why our collective wants to exist? Tell me if you think I am taking it all too seriously. Maybe you were being ironic. Hey, why not INK instead of INC? It's a bit more obviously ironic and also relates to that wonderful artistic practice of mark-making. Any thoughts friends?
Inez or Izzy or Izzie xx

3rd Meeting

Hello all, so our next meeting will be on Thursday the 21st/4 at 6pm and we will be meeting again in Port Melbourne! As discussed last Thursday we have all decided to bring along some materials each (it can be whatever you want) and we will create something/s together to either set up in the space, or to take out into the wider WORLD!!!!!!....or both :) So bring something along to share and create together! Also, if anyone has anything has anything they want to bring to talk about please do!...we will set aside time at the start to do this. Looking foward to seeing you all there, Georgie

WORDS WITH FRIENDS

MINUTES BY MINNA

Notes from our second meeting on the 7th of April 2011.