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✨artist, curator, writer
✨director @wollongongartgallery
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Been thinking a lot lately about what an alt Australian new wave might look like. A roo wave. So when @superpositionfestival asked us to conceive a program to play the historic @mountvicflicks we began wrangling an unruly love letter: Especially for roo, I want to tell you I was feeling that wave too. Includes 50+ artworks and artefacts with line-up coming soon. Hope to see mates in the mountains Nov 28-29 🤙

ROO WAVE TV
Programmed by Soda Jerk, Mount Vic Flicks will host a cinema transmission of nonstop nuggets from the Australian Roo Wave. Art film, ozsploits and artefacts from the un-canon of Australian culture streamed on the big screen. A wilding where cinephilia leaks into gutter rap and crunchy YouTube relics go head to head with masterworks and microhistories. Small joys and art giants. Butch aesthetics and soft porn. Where TISM meets ISMs. Where theft is a politic and the poor image is pious. Where the highbrow meets the lowbrow in the ecstatic horizon of the monobrow.

The program will surf like a channel throughout the weekend and audiences are encouraged to drop in to ride the roo wave for short or longer stays. A single ticket serves as a pass for return visits all weekend.

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🥔🌾🌾🌾 Join me on Sept 27th / 1pm @wollongongartgallery for a free screening of Agnès Varda's wonderful documentary The Gleaners and I as part of my show Once Upon a Doll. My handmade Agnès Varda doll is featured in the exhibition, celebrating the filmmaker's enduring creative legacy.

In honour of the film, I will be hosting a potato party, with potato-themed snacks and drinks inspired by Varda's fascination with the humble potato. And I'm writing a potato poem (baby's first poem! 😄) as we speak!

🎟 Tickets are free but bookings are essential.

Save yourself a spot via the link in my bio!

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This week on the pod we have ⁠Daniel Mudie Cunningham⁠! Daniel is the former Director of Programs at Carriageworks, and the current director of Wollongong Art Gallery. His work has been widely exhibited and collected by institutions including MoNA and Art Gallery of Western Australia.

Topics we covered include: How we met Dan by eavesdropping, Matt got locked up in earlwood, family portraits at Hurstville westfield, five year plans, Aiden grapples with DEATH, Lost media, Tow truck ride to a Tina Turner concert, Matt’s ego death, and Aiden’s free psychotherapist, and the Moby song that inspired his Funeral Songs

See @danmudcun bio for links to his book and other projects.

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Flashback to circa 2001 ⚡️Repost from • @danmudcun Ahead of the final Sydney Cinémathèque screening of 𝙍𝙚𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙨 today, a little casting story: how Deborah Mailman ended up playing Pam Grier.

I knew Deb because she was a customer at the video store where I worked in 1999 — my accidental film school and it seems casting agency. 𝙍𝙚𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙨 re-staged images from film history alongside answering-machine messages, and I cast her in a riff on 𝘾𝙤𝙛𝙛𝙮 (1973), Jack Hill’s blaxploitation classic starring the legendary Pam Grier.

My mum Catherine made Deb’s dress — and appeared elsewhere in 𝙍𝙚𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙨 as Doris Day (see a pic of Mum/Doris in the previous post) 🛀

Here’s some stills from 𝙍𝙚𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙨 followed by the 𝘾𝙤𝙛𝙛𝙮 scene we were ripping off, and some behind the scenes happy snaps including co-star @janneke.williamson ✨

Last chance to see 𝙍𝙚𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙨 and 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙏𝙚𝙘𝙝𝙣𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝘿𝙚𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙮 today, Saturday 15 August at 2pm, with Pedro Almodóvar’s 𝙒𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙑𝙚𝙧𝙜𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙖 𝙉𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝘽𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙠𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙣 for Sydney Cinémathèque’s Gossip season at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.🎞️

@artgalleryofnsw
@rat__101
@michael.pdf

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What a doll.

Thank you to everyone who joined us on Friday evening to celebrate the opening of Raquel Caballero’s Once Upon a Doll. It was a joyful night filled with colour, conversation and a whole lot of admiration for Raquel’s extraordinary handcrafted cast of cultural icons.

If you missed opening night, there’s still plenty of time to experience the exhibition, on show until 1 November.

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Images: The opening of Raquel Caballero’s Once Upon a Doll. Photos by Katelyn Slyer.

@raquelcab #wollongongartgallery #wollongong

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I’m overwhelmed with the love and generosity from friends and family on a sunny winters day. I’ll never forget celebrating my diamond jubilee 💎❤️🎈⭐️

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"Imagine a foghorn orchestra designed by Brâncuși after a seafood banquet with Dalí" Daniel Mudie Cunningham, curator of Seascapes for Sydney Fish Market.

In Song for Avida, Mark Shorter invited participants to sound a series of whimsical sculptural instruments, creating an improvised maritime chorus that drifted between harbour signals and aquatic pageantry. Divine.

The work forms part of Seascapes, a performance and workshop series exploring the cultural, social and ecological dimensions of life on the water and of the market itself. Cleverly curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham, Seascapes is an ongoing program that continues through to October.

Full Seascapes program available on the Sydney Fish Market website.

@marktshorter
@danmudcun
@sydneyfishmarket
@daragill
Images courtesy of Placemaking NSW

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new film season at @artgalleryofnsw is themed GOSSIP and i better see all my yentas, squealers and scandalmongers at the cinema like let’s speak on that .. feat. a star-studded lineup of sydney’s best busybodies 🗣️

thank you @rat__101 for having me co-conspire on a theme very dear to our hearts and our PRAXIS

new film season at @artgalleryofnsw is themed GOSSIP and i better see all my yentas, squealers and scandalmongers at the cinema like let’s speak on that .. feat. a star-studded lineup of sydney’s best busybodies 🗣️

thank you @rat__101 for having me co-conspire on a theme very dear to our hearts and our PRAXIS

new film season at @artgalleryofnsw is themed GOSSIP and i better see all my yentas, squealers and scandalmongers at the cinema like let’s speak on that .. feat. a star-studded lineup of sydney’s best busybodies 🗣️

thank you @rat__101 for having me co-conspire on a theme very dear to our hearts and our PRAXIS

new film season at @artgalleryofnsw is themed GOSSIP and i better see all my yentas, squealers and scandalmongers at the cinema like let’s speak on that .. feat. a star-studded lineup of sydney’s best busybodies 🗣️

thank you @rat__101 for having me co-conspire on a theme very dear to our hearts and our PRAXIS

new film season at @artgalleryofnsw is themed GOSSIP and i better see all my yentas, squealers and scandalmongers at the cinema like let’s speak on that .. feat. a star-studded lineup of sydney’s best busybodies 🗣️

thank you @rat__101 for having me co-conspire on a theme very dear to our hearts and our PRAXIS

THIS WEDNESDAY 6.15PM 🗣️🗣️

WED 5 AUGUST 7.15PM 🗣️🗣️

WED 22 JULY 7.15PM 🗣️🗣️

SAT 22 AUGUST 2PM 🗣️🗣️

WED 12 AUGUST 7.15PM 🗣️🗣️

SUN 26 JULY 2PM 🗣️🗣️

WED 26 AUGUST 7.15PM 🗣️🗣️

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On a magical sunny winters day we made music for the fishes and reached out into el Horizonte…..estoy seguro de que los drones alcanzaron la costa de España…sonidos resonantes a través del tiempo hacia Avida
A massive thank you @danmudcun for getting Song For Avida to happen @sydney.fishmarket on Sunday… and to @samgeorgesamgeorge for helping me cart it all up from Melbourne….
Fotos:
@samgeorgesamgeorge
@danmudcun
@jamie_north_studio

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Sneak peek 👀 Our install team is hard at work ahead of @raquelcab’s Once Upon a Doll, opening Friday 3 July from 6pm.

#wollongongartgallery #whatsonwollongong #wollongong

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Best start to the week. Patrick Pound emailed this morning to tell me he collects photographs that look like curators and artists, and that he’d just acquired a Miami murderer mugshot that reminded him of me “on a ((very)) bad day.”

📷 @patrick_pound

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