Channels Festival is coming! Haven’t heard of it? Channels is a new biennial festival based in Melbourne showcasing the best of contemporary video practice from Australia and around the world. Powerhouse ladies (and Next Wave alumni) Jessie Scott, Rachel Feery and Eugenia Lim have curated a bumper program of screenings, talks, workshops, performances and exhibitions running 18-21 September. To narrow it down, we’ve put together a list of vid works we can’t wait to sink our eyes into.
VIDEO VISIONS
For one night of extraordinary double vision we’re taking video art off the net, out of the gallery and putting it into a cinema. Featuring Next Wave Alumni Bindi Cole (NWF 2010), Soda Jerk (NWF 2010) and Brown Council (NWF 2010 & 2008),Plus a host of international artists, VIDEO VISIONS represents a cross-section of local and international artists experimenting with the medium of our time.
Tickets $15/10 concession
Thursday 19th September
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TRANSFORMER
Ms&Mr will be presenting Amputee of the Neurotic Future 1988:2012 as part of the TRANSFORMER exhibition. In this work, the manipulation of their personal archive, central to their practice, collides with JG Ballard’s Crash, with disturbing and spectacular results. Benjamin Ducroz will be presenting Cumulo, a work that combines the delicacy of frame-by-frame animation with the sophistication of digital technology. TRANSFORMER is curated and produced by Next Wave alumna Eugenia Lim (NWF 2010) and Channels Festival.
12 – 21 September (Festival opening night 18 September).
This is a free event.
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MEMORY SCREENS
In an evening of on-and-off camera performance inspired by the seminal works of their nominated heroes and heroines, Next Wave alumna Hannah Raisin (NWF 2010), with Emile Zile and Salote Tawale, perform new live commissions and celebrate the entangled nature of performance and video art.
Tickets $8/5 Concession
Friday 20th September
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VIDEO ART IN THE INTERNET ERA
Video was a radical medium in the hands of the activists, performance artists and pirate TV makers of the ‘60s. It helped rewrite relationships between artists, audiences and mass media, effectively changing the world. So how are video artists orienting themselves against the complex backdrop of networked technology, smart phones and prosumers of our current world? VIDEO ART IN THE INTERNET ERA brings together an extended panel of artists, curators and video brains, including Kickstart artist Giselle Stanborough, to turn their minds to some of the crises and opportunities facing video art in the internet era.
Tickets $8/ 5 concession and ACMI members
Friday 20th September
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Those are our picks, but there’s loads more on offer so hover that mouse this way and check out the rest!