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We are bakers now! Delirious ones. And you can be too … Get involved in our newest project for Primavera 2011, ‘The Delirious Bakery’, an underground bakery in The Rocks cooking up site-specific tales of dissent and resistance alongside homemade sweets. It’s housed in a Pop-Up Space behind 77 George St. that’s presently occupied by The Red Room Company, but was previously home to a Chinese gambling den, a basement storehouse and a puppet shop.
From now until Oct 23, The Delirious Bakery will launch and host a new secret society, occasionally opening its doors to passers-by for general trade (check website for open days). Made up of invited guests and members of the public, the ‘Sweet Damper and Gossip Society’ will meet in the Bakery for regular ‘low teas’ in which tales about the darker underside of The Rocks are exchanged with each sticky wattleseed bun. These sometimes slippery, contested and confronting histories will later be imparted to others from memory.
Other operations of The Delirious Bakery may include sharing sourdough starter cultures, jams, recipes, language and cooking equipment. The Delirious Bakery would greatly appreciate any in-kind support from local producers of flour, eggs and other good things.
Join the Sweet Damper and Gossip Society mailing list for news about upcoming meetings and open days, at www.deliriousbakery.com
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In anticipation of Primavera 2011, which is taking place off-site in The Rocks this year due to the Museum of Contemporary Art being at present a construction site, and for which we are making three new works, here are some things to look forward to (regarding Portraites of the Inditchenous Beestes):
1. glow-in-the-dark FIMO
2. weirdly distorted European colonial renderings of native animals
3. drawing (albeit at several removes from ‘life’)
More details to follow shortly…
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A couple more images of our project The Restless Quarter, which can still be seen in Sydney at Carriageworks until Sept 3.
Thanks SPUR!
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The first of several exhibitions we’re involved with coming up in the second, overstuffed half of 2011 is …
The John Fries Memorial Prize for which our work Land-escapes (below) is a finalist.
The exhibition runs 10 August – 20 September and you can find it at Blackfriars off Broadway, which is: 1 Blackfriars St, Chippendale, NSW. Opening night is Thursday 9 August, 6 – 8pm.
photo courtesy of Viscopy
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For any of you currently on the other side of the planet … we’re part of an exhibition on now at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery. Urbanition is the first of their Sister City Biennials, for which the curators Justine Topfer & Meg Shiffler invited a group of artists to “create works addressed to civic leaders of San Francisco and Sydney that propose visionary solutions to make each city more humane, green and liveable.”
You can see it there for another month or so (and later in the year at CarriageWorks in Sydney). Details on our project below:
The Restless Quarter
“The Restless Quarter is an open-ended document of mobility and change, an expanding propositional archive of the city broken down and reconstituted so that that it can shift according to climate change events (meteorological and geopolitical). Assisted by strategically located participants, The Restless Quarter collects – and borrows from – existing mobile structures and itinerant services found on the streets of San Francisco, Sydney and elsewhere. It asks those in the business of (de)futuring our cities to confront what design theorist Tony Fry has called the impending “age of unsettlement†and begin welcoming ways of living that are dynamic, responsive and opportunistic. What kinds of infrastructures, social networks and support services might The Restless Quarter require or self-generate, and which bus do I catch to get there?”
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SISTER CITY BIENNIAL: URBANITION
San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
401 Van Ness, San Francisco
April 28 to July 2, 2011
CarriageWorks Arts Centre, Sydney
Wilson St., Redfern
August 4 to September 3, 2011
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We have a new work in this exhibition at Sydney Uni’s Tin Sheds Gallery, opening next Thursday night, 6-8pm. We’ll also be taking part in the symposium on April 9, and have written an essay for the publication. Definitely a worthwhile conversation to be having in Sydney right now.
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| MOVING SALE – Art books, kitchenware, bookshelves-in-suitcases, equipment for indoor vegetable growing, robots, typewriters, original artworks (drawings etc.).
In the closing days of their Artspace residency, Makeshift are divesting of worldly possessions in preparation for an imminent trip to Europe via Esperance (WA). Part garage sale, part installation, part library, for their open studio they will be piling and arranging and distributing to willing takers a variety of useful and useless objects. All welcome, edible and service or skill-based currency accepted.
Open Studio @ Artspace / Friday and Saturday 29-30 January 11am – 5pm.
Artspace Visual Arts Centre –
Open Studio
43 – 51 Cowper Wharf Road
Woolloomooloo NSW
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Tonight between 5 – 6pm you can catch us in the food cart cooking up pikelets. There will also be a picnic discussion with our special guest Sally Parslow, local resident of The Rocks. There’s a new microsite for the project – http://www.makeshift.work/gwagopatabagun/ – and we’ll be posting more on the journey and the events here soon.
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Shortly you will see a new work of ours, Gwago patabagun _ _ _ We will eat presently*, roll into the front lawn of the Museum of Contemporary Art, where it will be parked for two months as part of the exhibition, In the Balance: Art for a changing world (21 August – 31 October). We will eat presently consists of a mobile food cart that is home to a hive of native bees, and on occasion will be opened up by us to serve hot pikelets with home-made honey for anyone who stops by. A series of picnic discussions with invited guest speakers will also accompany these edible happenings.
There will be a website with more details – http://www.makeshift.work/gwagopatabagun/ presently… (nothing up as yet, please wait a few days before visiting). In the meantime, here is a picture of the cart being constructed:
*The title of this work comes, as always, from a found text. This one is the notebooks of William Dawes, which you can view in full here. In them, Dawes records the extensive study of the Dharuk language he carried out from his hut at the Observatory (just up the hill from the MCA), assisted chiefly by Cadigal woman Patyegarang, in the early, precarious days of the colony. Ross Gibson wrote an excellent article for Meanjin that explores this relationship, which if you’re interested can be read here
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Read a cute little write-up on Colony Collapse by Rachel Fuller at Concrete Playground.
And for those who’ve been meaning to visit, there’s only one week left! Quicksticks… (it looks something like this)
The bees live in their hive, inside the orange meat safe. In theory they can fly in and out of the gallery whenever they like, through a pipe leading outside, however Sydney’s still-cold winter has kept them pretty much tucked up in bed. If it’s sunny you might spot them hanging out next to their hive or amongst the blueberries and ‘Happy Wanderer’. Come and talk to them, they’re super sweet!
 
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