Current Season Current Exhibitions Current Events Future Exhibitions Past Exhibitions Touring Exhibitions Exhibitions for Hire International News Exhibition Proposals Support our Gallery Upgrade ACP Membership FOLLOW US My Account 9-25 September image: © Brendan Lee, The Bullet Time, from Shootin' from the Hip 2004 [photo: Paul Batt] Featuring a diverse range of panel discussions, film screenings and performances there is something here for everyone with a passion for photography and contemporary photomedia. The first weekend focuses on photojournalism and documentary practice looking at the work of some of the greats of the past and the new talent coming up across the country. The second weekend features a challenging theory discussion presented by the Bureau of Ideas, a new performance by William Yang and panel a discussion on collecting photographic art. The final weekend explores publishing and popular culture. Midweek we have video screenings, polemical debates on Indigenous photomedia and on pornography as art, as well as performance and new music. seehearfeelthink WEEK ONE 18.00 Opening Night INVITATION ONLY Thu 9 13.00 Lunchtime Screening - The Art of Bill Henson. Tony Wyzenbeek's rich and analytical insight into the unique, dreamlike work of this critically acclaimed Australian artist. Film and discussion. image: © Bill Henson, Untitled 1994/95, Courtesy of Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Fri 10 FREE 18.30 You're Among Equals: Carol Jerrems remembered A tribute to one of the icons of seventies Australian photography including rare film footage and conversation with friends and colleagues. Hosted by Gael Newton, senior curator of photography, National Gallery of Australia, her guests include noted filmmaker and actor Esben Storm, MCA curator Russell Storer and Lynn Gailey of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance. image: Carol Jerrems, Mark and Flappers 1975 © Ken Jerrems Fri 10 FREE 14.00 Talking Shop - The Ethics of Photojournalism Stewart Hawkins, editor, Life and Leisure and Perspective Review for the Weekend Australian Financial Review, chairs a discussion of the ethical priorities facing photojournalists today. His guests are photographers Tim Clayton and Fiona Morris along with Elizabeth Hanna, deputy picture editor at Australian Associated Press. image: front page of The Australian Financial Review, 13 September 2001 Sat 11 FREE 15.30 Talking Shop - What Value the Document? Artist and gallerist Sandy Edwards discusses the resurgence of interest in documentary photography with photographers Liz Ham and Dean Sewell, and curator/editor Helen Frajman, who heads up Melbourne's M.33. image: © Matthew Sleeth, Feet #5 from Japan (detail) 2002, Courtesy of Josef Lebovic Gallery and M.33 Sat 11 FREE 19.00 Lewis Morley - Size Does Matter Celebrated photographer Lewis Morley talks about his life, his work and that picture of the naked Christine Keeler astride an Arne Jacobson chair. Includes a screening of John Mandelberg and Tom Thompson's recent biographical film, and many of the images that made Morley famous. Morley had an uncanny knack of capturing the decisive moments of many celebrities ABC Radio National image: © Lewis Morley, Barry Humphries, Cyprus 1970 Sat 11 FREE 14.00 Tea with Robert How is the role of photography changing in the age of digitally constructed images? How does this affect documentary practice? Photographer and critic Robert McFarlane in conversation with Rex Dupain, Jon Lewis and Robyn Stacey. An informal discussion about their lives as photographers, their individual approaches to the medium and where they see the future heading. Afternoon tea provided. image: © Robert McFarlane, Happening Centennial Park Sydney c.1968 Sun 12 FREE 19.00 Film Night - David Moore and Wolfgang Sievers A rare opportunity to see new films by David Perry on two legendary photographers - Australia's most renowned and widely travelled photojournalist, David Moore, and one of the country's most significant industrial and architectural photographers of the postwar period, Wolfgang Sievers. image: © Wolfgang Sievers, Gears for Mining 1967 Sun 12 FREE Closed Mon 13 13.00 Lunchtime Screening - InSight: David Moore InSight: David Moore. Made shortly before his death in 2003, the film looks back over the life of Australia's most famous photojournalist. Film and discussion. image: © David Moore, Sisters of Charity, Washington DC 1956 Tue 14 FREE 19.00 Videola Melbourne-based video art curator Brendan Lee presents an evening of Australian video art starting from in the 70s and heading off into the future - what's really out there (and always has been). Exploring the arcing of ideas across the last 30 years, the program segues retro vids by TV Voodoo through to John Dunkley-Smith, Lyndal Jones and 21st-century DVDs by Jarrad Kennedy, Laresa Kosloff, Sarah Lynch, John Spiteri, Grant Stevens and Matthew Tumbers. image: Brendan Lee Tue 14 FREE 13.00 Lunchtime Screening - Lewis Morley Lewis Morley. Iconic celebrity images from Swinging Sixties London to contemporary Australia. Screening of John Mandelberg and Tom Thompson's recent biographical film. Film and discussion. image: © Lewis Morley, Christine Keeler, 1963 Wed 15 FREE 19.00 Panel: LHOOQ ERE! Blak mob talking Djon Mundine senior Indigenous consultant curator Queensland Art Gallery in conversation with Indigenous Australian photomedia artists: photojournalist Merv Bishop and artist/curators Christian Thompson and Gary Lee. image: © Michael Riley, from Cloud (detail), 2000 Courtesy of Boomalli, Sydney Wed 15 FREE 13.00 Lunchtime Screening - Up in the Sky Tracey Moffatt: Up in the Sky. A funny, honest and revealing look into the life and work of the celebrated photographic artist and filmmaker Tracey Moffatt. Film and discussion. image: © Tracey Moffatt Self Portrait 1999 Courtesy of Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Thu 16 FREE 19.00 Catch - Mary Finsterer and Dean Golja An evening of new music, images and conversation. Musicologist Richard Toop leads a discussion with the internationally celebrated composer Mary Finsterer and guests. Live performance by the Song Company, music and video presentations and launch of Mary Finsterer's new CD, Catch [released by ABC Classics 476176-0]. Refreshments served. "Intricate but hard-hitting music which doesn't just depend on atmosphere of rhetorical gestures." The Sydney Review image: © Dean Golja, Chair, 2003 Thu 16 FREE 19.00 From the Inside Out - William Yang In a series of performance extracts, celebrated Australian artist William Yang tracks the development of his distinctive illustrated monologues. The journey takes him from his early personal diaries exploring his Chinese antecedence, the Sydney gay scene and the impact of AIDS, to more recent social critiques that deftly integrate surprisingly diverse strands of history such as the fate of Indigenous Australians and the effect of genocide on the human psyche. Specially created for the ACP 30th Anniversary. Presented in association with Performing Lines "Yang is unique in what he does. He's the only person in Australia, possibly the world, using this exact combination of photographs, slides, music and speech. His one man shows have been overwhelmingly successful…" The Australian photo of William Yang by © Wee Teck Hian Fri 17 Sat18 Sun19 WEEK TWO Talking Shop - The Seduction of Reality 14:00 (part One) 15:30 (Part Two) Rewriting reality has become an ideology of the last decade. Faced with art's newfound fascination with the banalities of contemporary urbanity and the direct intensity of experience, is it possible to find a new critical language? Marie Bonnal, director of the Bureau of Ideas, chairs a panel with papers delivered by leading Australian thinkers. Rex Butler (Brisbane) Photography in the Age of the Post-Medium - if everything resembles the photographic, is photography itself any longer possible? Alan Cholodenko (Sydney) Still Photography? - what is still photography? is still photography still? is still photography photography still? Juliana Engberg (Melbourne) The Fragmented Image - Are we on the threshold of a new seamless fabrication that is vapid and valueless? Can fragmentation save meaning? Julian Goddard (Perth) Silent moment - quietitude and the problem of the aestheticising of reality through the spectaculiarisation of culture as opposed to its lived experience. "Our perception, our immediate sensitivity have become aesthetics" Jean Baudrillard Presented in partnership with The Bureau of Ideas   image: © Daniele Buetti, is everything true just as it is? 2004 Courtesy Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney/Köln Sat 18 FREE 19.00 From the Inside Out - William Yang See Fri 17 for details Fri 17 Sat18 Sun19 14.00 Tea with the Collectors From postcards to fine prints to experimental video, Andrew Frost (freelance writer for Australian Art Collector magazine, Flash Ar t and Surface), discusses the passion for collecting photomedia art with his guests - collectors Pat Corrigan and Dr Dick Quan, and gallerist Josef Lebovic. Afternoon tea provided. image: © William Wegman, Courtesy of Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney/Köln Sun 19 FREE 19.00 From the Inside Out - William Yang See Fri 17 for details Fri 17 Sat18 Sun19 $10/$8 CONC Closed Mon 20 13.00 Lunchtime Screening - InSight: Robyn Stacey InSight: Robyn Stacey. Melding art and design, computer imaging and photography, Robyn Stacey makes visually arresting imagery. She talks about her developing career and how she 'discovered' she was an artist. Film and discussion with the artist. image: © Robyn Stacey, Fruit and Sky II 2003 Courtesy of Stills Gallery, Sydney Tue 21 FREE 19.00 Black Box Fasten your seatbelts for an evening of new and experimental video from around the globe selected by gallerist Scott Donovan. From Taiwan and Korea, via the Pacific to LA and on to Europe, Black Box is a non-stop in-flight movie experience without quarantine restrictions. All aboard! Tue 21 FREE 13.00 Lunchtime Screening: Dreamlives - Trent Parke and Narelle Autio Viewed through the eyes of Trent Parke and Narelle Autio, the world is an incredibly beautiful place. The couple share a passion for revealing the world through photography and their unique images have won them international acclaim. The film follows their search for the perfect Australian image. Film and discussion image: © Narelle Autio, Untitled, from The Seventh Wave (detail) 2000, Courtesy of Stills Gallery, Sydney Wed 22 FREE 19.00 Panel: Honest Porn Queensland artist Scott Redford maintains that pornography is more honest than art. Discussing this view are Jill Bennett, Adam Geczy and Scott Redford, with Edward Colless in the chair. Includes a screening of Redford's film I Need More. The video I Need More was conceived and made during Scott Redford's residency at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 2001/02 under an Australia Council for the Arts Fellowship. It focuses on the sexual interactions of a group of gay men (friends of the artist from the Berlin gay subculture) in their local bar and is unscripted. It is an artwork made in the manner of a pornographic film that functions as a documentary. Restricted to adults over 18. This event is not recommended for those disturbed by sexual imagery. image: © Scott Redford, from I Need More 2003 Wed 22 FREE 19.00 Assume Nothing - Rebecca Swan and guests People challenging the binary construct of gender. Photography, dance, opera, spoken word, physical theatre, drag and gender flex by local and international performers to mark the launch of Rebecca Swan's new book Assume Nothing. A visual, aural and intellectual feast presented by Zan MacKendree-Wright (singer), Megan Clarken (multimedia and contemporary dance), Felicia Foil (drag) and Jack Byrne (spoken word). Following the performances a number of those featured in Rebecca Swan's book will speak of their fluid approach to gender. A night that will alter your mind and satiate your senses. Refreshments served. "The bodies collected here, in an archive of predominantly queer life, are celebrated and applauded for their splendid and courageous refusal of certainty" Judith 'Jack' Halberstam Book signing and an opportunity to purchase the first numbered copies off the press. image: © Rebecca Swan, Ema 2001 Thu 23 FREE 13.00 Lunchtime Screening Double bill: Tracey Moffatt and Bill Henson Moffatt and Henson are the top two names in Australian photography. In this double bill we present Tony Wyzenbeek 's The Art of Bill Henson and Jane Cole's film about Tracey Moffatt: Up in the Sky. Film and discussion. image: © Bill Henson, Untitled 1994/95, Courtesy of Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Fri 24 FREE 19.00 Courting Rebellion doingbird magazine's Max Doyle, Malcolm Watt and Rachael Cassells present some of the hottest names in contemporary photography worldwide. These are the image-makers that operate at the creative interface between art and fashion, setting the pace for the world's leading style publications: COLORS, Dazed & Confused, Dutch, The Face, Index, i-D, Interview, V, Self Service, Purple, Vogue… image: © Terry Richardson, from doingbird 7 Fri 24 FREE 14.00 Talking Shop - The Language of Lifestyle Broadcaster Lee Lin Chin hosts a panel discussion on the synthesis of art and popular culture in contemporary magazine publishing. Her guests are Catherine Caines (editor of newly launched The Insider magazine), Karen-Jane Eyre (editor-in-chief of Studio Magazines: not only Black & White, not only Sport, Blue etc.) Chris Searl (editor of Monster Children magazine). image: © Chris Searl, pg33 girl iss#04 (detail) 2004 Sat 25 FREE 15.30 Talking Shop - Self-Published Art Artist and critic Peter Hill talks with artists and gallerists about the making and marketing of multiples and art books. His guests are gallerist Conny Dietzschold who specialises in the sale of multiples, photographer Ingvar Kenne and artist Jim Singline. image: © William Wegman, Courtesy of Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney/Köln Sat 25 FREE 19.00 Thirty-Something Join us for an evening of performance and satire to mark the conclusion of the ACP 30th Anniversary Events. Julie Panini, hostess of Art Only on Sundays delivers her in-depth but tasteful critique of Jake and Dinos Chapman's Sacrificial Mutilation and Death in Modern Art, followed by Sue Dodd and Phil Dodd performing Gossip Pop - Live. Refreshments served. image: © Sue Dodd, Imaginary Album Cover 2004 Sat 25 FREE Policies & Legal Notices  |  Copyright: Australian Centre for Photography, 2012. All Rights Reserved. Site by Suture Net  |  Hosting by Dreamhost  |  ADMIN