ART SPLAT!!

hmm..seems like the more I need to study my science the more i crave art.

anyhow here's an update....

CALL FOR ENTRIES: GILGAmesh connections FABLE COMPETITION III

Gilgamesh Connections is holding its third and final literary competition of fables.

Entries can be sent in now until 5pm Friday 10 October. The fable must be in English, previously unpublished and must not exceed 500 words.

First, second and third prizes all $500!

For further details, terms and entry forms contact: harriet@gilgameshconnections.net

present(in)tense at george paton gallery

Kotoe Ishii (2008 Next Wave Festival artist, Next Wave Time Lapse artist) features in this group exhibition by four Melbourne-based Japanese women.

PRESENT(IN)TENSE is an exhibition using various mediums (i.e. texts, drawing, sound, video and/or three-dimensional materials), and is based on ideas about ‘transnational self’. All four exhibiting artists came to Australia from Japan as adults. After almost a decade away from Japan, they found themselves in a state where they could not clearly define their societies. They sometimes feel that they share a certain cultural background, but at the same time their national and cultural identification are often drifting away from each other. This complex nature of (un)shared senses of we-ness and them-ness drove them to form this exhibition in collaboration.

PRESENT(IN)TENSE explores how these four women figure out their identity in ‘present tense’.

Featuring Kotoe Ishii, Mayuko Itoh, Mutzumi Nozaki and Makiko Yamamoto.

11-21 August 2010
Opening Wednesday 11 August, 6-8pm

George Paton Gallery
Second Floor, Union House
University of Melbourne