Format Festival 2011 Program(me) by Sam Rodgers

We acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land, the Kaurna people

Format Zine Shop, 15 Peel St Format Space Gallery, 15 Peel St Format Jillian McKeague Space, 15 Peel St Under-the-stairs, 15 Peel St

The Reading Room, 153 Hindley St Magazine Gallery, 83a Hindley Street (Clubhouse Lane) AC Arts, Cnr Currie and Morphett Streets Tuxedo Cat, 131 King William St

introduction In a time before the earth and the foamy shore divorced the oceans and the sky: before the Rainbow Serpent and the patricidal Titans: when there was no shape, no boundaries, no taxes; there lived a tapir – though she knew neither hunger nor comfort like a creature would. It is said that before she even opened her eyes, she grew pregnant. In those thirteen months the world formed: each new limb and organ of the foetus altered the landscape. And when at last the tapir gave birth, the first tiny scream of the newborn sent a fireball into the sky, creating the sun. As her baby grew fur, so the trees sprung up all over the world; and each request for milk created a new animal. Before long, the world was full of fauna and flora, like the bonobo monkey, the great tit, and the bastard strawberry; as well as modern infrastructure, like roads and schools, offices and railways – for they were the toys Baby Tapir liked playing with. Over time, several of the animals – like the paper-shuffling bureaucrat

and the coal-shovelling miner – grew weary of life in nature’s playground and opted for a life in the baby’s toy houses. Soon, the cities were filled with these furless creatures collectively called “Humans” (English being the preferred language of the species). Then, one day, packs of wolves drove the humans out of their homes. They took over the cities and killed and skinned whoever dared venture into their new territory – hence the expression: “A wolf in the skin of trespassing homo sapiens”. They marked the boundaries of these untamed metropolises with human skulls, and were feared by all. Frustrated by these antics, Mother Tapir emailed her snake friends and told them to infiltrate the wolves’ lairs. A bloody, poisonous war ensued, lasting for a decade. In a small forest called “Adelaide”, a band of humans (who called themselves the Format Collective) organised something to distract the people from the bloodshed. This is that festival.

credits Format Collective Chloe Langford Stephanie Lyall Sam Rodgers Stan Mahoney Dan Gladys Patrick Lockwood Tannon Kew Simon Gray Simon Loffler Dr Ianto Ware

Curator, Magazine Gallery Josh Fanning

Art Director Chloe Langford

Layout and Design Stacey Wilson

Live Music Directors Stan Mahoney Stacey Wilson Ben Revi

Tech Simon Loffler Stephen Pickles

Zine Fair Coordinators Stephanie Lyall Sam Rodgers Director, Street Dreams Peter Drew Director, Academy of Words Ryan Paine FEFF Curator Ray Harris Chief Audio Engineer Patrick Lockwood 4

Director, The Reading Room Becci Love Poster Designs Steph Lyall Lara Torr Johanna Kuhne Helen Nehill

Publicity Sam Rodgers Stan Mahoney DJ Sex Pest Mike Radzevicious Thanks The Adelaide City Council, The South Australian Government, Arts SA, Asahi, Avant Card, The Bigpond Adelaide Film Festival, Hugh, Potsie, Nigel, Cassandra & Brian, Faux Friends, all participating artists, musos & do-ers (buy them drinks plz).

sat feb 12 MEDAL JAM UNDERGROUND Medal Jam Format Jillian McKeague Space, 5-9pm Sat Feb 12 Medal Jam Underground returns for the fifth and final event of the series. Witness some of Australia’s best breakers test their skills in a 5 vs 5 crew showdown. Supported by Format Collective, Don Chu Photography, Clinic 116 and Midwest Trader, MJU 5 is set to be a monster!

POPPY NOGOOD Curated by Riley O’Keeffe Magazine, 6-9pm Sat Feb 12 Sun Feb 13 Mon Feb 14 Tues Feb 15 Wed Feb 16 Walking into a gallery or a quaint local space, seeing something that takes your breath away – that moves you and makes you look at your world in a whole new way. Aren’t those moments beautiful? This isn’t quite that. Please feel awkward, please feel uncomfortable. You might be better off.

FORMAT FESTIVAL OPENING NIGHT PARTY Format Collective Format Jillian McKeague Space, 9pm-late Sat Feb 12 It’s Opening Night. It’s a party. Asahi gave us a giant pile of beers on the cheap. You’re welcome. Music courtesy of: Woollen Kits (Melbourne), Absolute Boys (Melbourne) plus local luminaries Terrible Truths and Fair Maiden.

DWELL

Marlaina Read Format Space Gallery 2pm onwards daily Sat Feb 12 Sun Feb 13 I will make the house and show you where it is. My arms will be tight and sweaty, my face red and eyes narrow, when I move the last brick into place. I will build a room. I will build a room with walls. I will build a room with no walls. Rest.

sat feb 12 HANSEL AND GRETEL

Nick Cocozza Format Zine Shop, on display Sat Feb 12 Sun Feb 13 Mon Feb 14 Nick Cocozza’s Hansel and Gretel pop-up book was a piece that he produced in response to a live brief from the German Embassy in London as part of a design competition. Cocozza’s take on the Grimm’s classic features a teenage Hansel and Gretel escaping from their gritty high rise home on their BMX and getting lost in the woods, only to be faced by the temptations of Ronald Mcdonald who has a sinister plan in mind for the pair. A notable new design graduate within the realms of street art culture is Scotland’s Nick Cocozza. He has had several group shows in the UK and his first solo show in Berlin in October 2010.

SUSANNAH WILLIAMS

Format Jillian McKeague Space for the duration of the festival, excepting some special occasions Sat Feb 12 to Sun Feb 27 “For FORMAT 2011, I will install a light drawing titled ‘Rat Fink Travels’, based on studies of my pet dog Oscar. The wall work will be drawn directly into the FORMAT Site, using LED fairy lights. This installation is part of a series of site specific, light drawings that present the opportunity to resolve a visual puzzle; explore the formal concerns of drawing; and continue my investigations into concepts of history, movement, memory, feeling and space.” - Susannah Williams

sun feb 13 WILL YOU LOVE FOREVER WHAT YOU LOVE NOW? Kirsty Hulm Format Space Under-theStairs, 1-5pm Sun Feb 13 Mon Feb 14 Tues Feb 15 Thurs Feb 17 “Through tattoo, I help people grip onto that which they care about: to hold it, embrace it completely, say yes, I love you. I deal with those who aren’t afraid; and it brings me conviction. For three days you will have the opportunity to share this experience with me.”

LIGHT INTERRUPTED

Adam Synnott Format Jillian McKeague Space 6pm Sun Feb 13 Light Interrupted is a rear projected multi-touch display. Using Derivative Touch Designer, the screen displays a multi-touch 3d painter/modeller. Colour and sound are affected by the number of users and the gestures they paint.

Describe to Kirsty the thing you love now, and she will interpret this into a tattoo through email negotiation. Got the ink-lination?

mon feb 14 MONSTER MONSTER

Sophia Simmons Format Space Gallery, 12-9pm (alternating artists) Mon Feb 14 Monster Monster is a oneday collaborative art project that provides a range of art “triggers”. With an abundance of materials and your assistance, projects will miraculously grow in many spontaneous and layered configurations. Witness the mutation! Add to the conglomeration! An experimental project that embodies the kaleidoscopic way our world grows and changes.

Format Festival of Song (FFoS) Vol. I “Valentine’s Day”

Format Jillian McKeague Space, 9pm Mon Feb 14 Teen heart-throbs Mountbatten support the dulcet tones of former Lamplight frontman, former Gotye band-member and current Berlin resident Mijo Biscan. By the end of Biscan’s set, most audience 8 members end up on stage.

CALL ME YOUR EXPERIMENT

Format Jillian McKeague Space, 2pm onwards Mon 14 Feb to Sun Feb 27 A solo dance performed to a ring tone composed by Alisdair Macindoe, the dancer carries their phone with them and whenever, wherever they are when it rings they perform the dance. Alison Currie will perform, as well as conduct a workshop to recruit performers from the general public. To set the dance off call 0431 236 108. Call the number to see the performance from the 14th of Feb to close of festival.

CREATE/CONSUME

Joel Parsons & James Moschou Format Space Gallery Wardrobes, 6pm Mon Feb 14 Tues Feb 15 Draw and be drawn. Create/ Consume explores, through digital media, the audience and author transaction and its ability to affect identity. It reflects both a power relationship; the unilateral flow of content from producer to consumer, and the individual’s ability to usurp this dichotomy by experiencing both roles.

tues feb 15 AN EVENING WITH HOME FOR THE DEATH

PRESSURELANDS INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP

Tues Feb 15

2011 marks the twentieth anniversary of the formation of Home For The Def. Come celebrate this milestone (millstone?) of Adelaide music in style as Nigel pulls out all stops with a very special, not-to-be-missed, extravaganza show with music, videos, production values, reminiscing, special guests and more. An evening to remember.

Part how to/part collaboration/part exploration, the PressureLands Interactive Workshop will explore the making of PressureLands, the themes of the project and where to from here. Pick the brains of the creative team and be part of this project with heart. Check out http://pressurelands.wordpress. com for more background on the project.

SNOW GLOBE

PressureLands is a community arts performance project for young people in the Riverland.

Nigel Koop Format Jillian McKeague Space, 8pm

Lara Torr & Laura Haigh Format Space Gallery, 1pm onwards

Alysha Hermann Format Jillian McKeague Space, 2pm & 5pm

Tues Feb 15 Everybody loves snow. Everybody loves holidays. Everybody loves hastily built giant snow globes. Come along for a temporary getaway inside a human sized globe. Souvenir snapshots will be taken and it will not be as tiring as a trip to the Ice Arena.

wed feb 16 METALHEAD

curated by Logan Macdonald Format Space Gallery, 6pm Wed Feb 16 Thurs Feb 17 Fri Feb 18 Sat Feb 19 Sun Feb 20 Metalhead is an exhibition that looks at the growing relationship between heavy metal culture with its influences of the occult. Clearly a subculture that has steadily influenced the work of a recent generation of artists, this is an exploration of the ties that bind metalheads to art. Including work by James Dodd, James Marshall, Paul Sloan and curated by Logan Macdonald.

WEDNESDAY HUMP NIGHT Format Jillian McKeague Space, 8pm Wed Feb 16 Forget the work-a-day rat race and let locals Ethics & Molars get you over the grump-hump, along with ex Darwin improv twopiece Celador (they just moved here, buy em a drink!). Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve also secured a rare appearance by the evil grandfather of Adelaide Black metal, Osteoperosis.

thurs feb 17 PSYCHETRONICA Format Jillian McKeague Space, 8pm Thurs Feb 17 Psychetronica Adelaide is one quarter of a worldwide group of experimental artists and musicians, alongside Tokyo, Osaka and London. Live art and music, DJs and VJs, installation pieces, custom-made instruments, smoke machines and speccy lighting schemes.

THE VISIBILITY PROJECT

Light Square, 8pm - 12am every night of the Adelaide Fringe A series of original offerings by diverse South Australian artists – in, on and around shipping containers. Audiences will experience stacks of shipping containers become towering modern-day canvases with projected photography by aspiring artists from Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and refugee communities, plus a series of shipping containers re-imagined by independent artists, including Alison Currie, Chloe Langford and The Format Collective.

THE FIRST ANNUAL ANDREW POTTER MEMORIAL HANDBALL CLASSIC Format Collective Outside the Format Space Heats Thurs Feb 17 2pm onwards Finals Thurs Feb 24 4pm onwards Held over two non-consecutive afternoons, this will almost certainly be the richest and most prestigious handball event to be held during this year’s Format Festival. As this guide goes to print, we’re not exactly sure how the tournament will be organised, whether it will involve doubles, foursquare, ins-and-outs or the cruel and archaic practise of “branding’’. Beyond doubt is the promise of sweat, shirtlessness and exquisitely dubious refereeing decisions.

fri feb 18 LIVE MUSIC EVENT featuring Bare Grillz (NSW), Alps of New South Wales (NSW), Fkn Tutts & Sarah Chadwick. Brought to you by Asahi. Format Jillian McKeague Space, 8pm Fri Feb 18 A “Live Music Event” featuring Bare Grillz (NSW), Alps of New South Wales (NSW), Fkn Tutts & Sarah Chadwick. Brought to you by Asahi.

THE FORMAT MURAL RE-PAINT Kate Gagliardi Format Space Outside Wall, Fri Feb 18, 12pm onwards Sat Feb 19, finishing in the morning. Adelaide based visual artist Kate Gagliardi has been given free reign to paint the front wall of Format art space with an image of her choice. The mural’s progress will be on show as painting continues over the course of the festival. This will be the first of a series of mural projects that Street Dreams is bringing to Adelaide during 2011.

sat feb 19 GROUSCH

Kym Begg Format Jillian McKeague Space, 2pm & 2.45pm Sat Feb 19 Grousch is an intellectual snowbear who is happiest when he can sit and read his Proust. However, hectic 21st century living has other plans. A short self devised performance set on a large cube of ice and told with puppets (made from everyday objects) and saxophone.

STREET ART WALKING TOUR

Street Dreams, Meet in the Format Zine Shop, 5pm, Sat Feb 19 Street art is everywhere but some of the best spots can be hard to find. Our guided tour of Adelaide street art takes in all the best nooks and crannies, alcoves and back alleys. With insights into the personalities behind the art and its rich history the street art tour is a great way for anyone to start discovering Adelaide’s street art.

DUMPSTER BIENNALE Street Dreams Magazine, 6pm

Fri Feb 18 to Mon Feb 21 (opening night Sat Feb 19) 30 Australian and international street artists have been invited to participate in this year’s exhibition of customised miniature wooden dumpsters. Ignored and abused, dumpsters are objects of the lowest value - but look again. Even a dumpster can be made unique and beautiful. Additional works will also be on display and all art works are for sale.

PIMP MY T-SHIRT PARTY Street Dreams Format Space, 8pm Sat Feb 19 One rule: wear a plain T-shirt because it’s going to get tagged, stencilled, drawn on, spray-painted and generally destroyed as alcohol and aerosol are mixed together into one amazing party. Super fun DJs and live music (bands TBA).

sun feb 20 FFoS Vol. II: “Sunday Picnic”

SINK

Sun 20 Feb

Sun Feb 20 Mon Feb 21 Tues Feb 22

Format Jillian McKeague Space, 5pm

Aluka (Melbourne) is a three-girl a cappella vocal group. Doesn’t really scream hipster cred, hey? Yet these girls, as Clare Bowditch’s backing singers, have been touring with Leonard Cohen, playing regularly to crowds of thousands. Their own compositions are honest and intriguing, with some of the most complex harmonies this side of Brian Wilson’s nightmares. This will be Aluka’s first Adelaide headline show. Soursop (Adelaide via Melbourne via Adelaide), on the other hand is a folksy singer/ songwriter. But her music has a dark side, and some surprises.

STREET ART WORKSHOPS

Street Dreams Format Jillian McKeague Space & Outside, 3-6pm

Rosita Holmes Format Space Under-theStairs, 2-5pm

“Sink,” 2011, plays with the notion of “sustainability.” Throughout this performative / sculptural exploration of the Murray/ Darling region Holmes engages with processes of measuring and mapping in a tongue-in-cheek attempt to quantify the life and death of a river. This series of assemblages and drawings are motivated by the relationship between people, surroundings and the nebulous energies that form between them.

OPEN AIR CINEMA Street Dreams Format Zine Store, 8pm

Sun Feb 20

Want to start making your own street art? Join our workshops to learn the tricks behind stencils, paste-ups and freehand aerosol from seasoned street artists. With only 30 places available they fill up pretty fast so make your booking quick info@streatdreams.com.au

Leaving Format at 8pm, our mobile projector unit will screen street art movies on a HUGE scale at our secret location in the city. Films to be screened include Banksy’s Exit Through The Gift Shop and the 1983 classic, Style Wars.

mon feb 21 42a

Alison Currie Format Space Gallery, 2-8pm Mon Feb 21 42a is an interactive installation based performance that utilises elements of dance, sculpture, video and new media to explore concepts relating to house and home. 42a is durational, we invite you to stay as long as you like talk to the dancers, eat a biscuit and make yourself at home. Developed by Alison Currie, Annemarie Kohn, Alisdair Macindoe, Kel Mocilnik and Adam Synnott. As well as numerous dancers, Carlie Angel will perform in this incarnation. Development funded by Arts SA and The Australia Council for the Arts.

THE EMMA, NICK AND CHRISTOPHER SHOW

THE MARTYRDOM OF EMILY WILDING DAVISON Rishin Singh, Sam Pettigrew & Megan Garrett-Jones Format Jillian McKeague Space Mon Feb 21 2pm Tues Feb 22 two shows from 2pm (40 min show) Emily Davison was a UK suffragette, martyred when she was trampled to death by the Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s horse at the 1913 Epsom Derby. Militant suffragette, avid swimmer and arsonist extraordinaire, she inspires this unique amalgamation of improvised sound, virtuosic musicianship and contemporary performance, courtesy of an innovative Sydney-based ensemble. Do not miss this.

Format Jillian McKeague Space, 6pm Mon Feb 21

Like Christopher in 2010, Emma Uber will show her work (oil painting) for the first time and is doing it at the Format Festival. Also Christopher (who takes photos) and Nick (who does things with paper) will desperately try to not let her show them up. 15

Metalhead, Create/Consume

Metalhead

Thurs Feb 17

Fri Feb 18

Metalhead, opening 6pm Create/Consume, 6pm

Snow Globe, 1pm Create/Consume, 6pm

Tues Feb 15

Wed Feb 16

Monster, Monster, 12-9pm Create/Consume, 6pm

Dwell, 2pm

Sun Feb 13

Mon Feb 14

Dwell, 2pm

Sat Feb 12

Format Space Gallery

Live Music Event, 9pm

Will you love forever what you love now? 1-5pm

Call Me Your Experiment, 2pm Wednesday Hump Night, 8pm Psychetronica, 8pm

Will you love forever what you love now? 1-5pm

Underthe-Stairs

Pressure Lands, 2pm & 5pm An Evening With Nigel Koop, 9pm

Call Me Your Experiment, 2pm FoS #1, 8pm

Light Interrupted, 6pm

Medal Jam, 5-9pm Opening Night Party, 9pm

Format Jillian McKeague Space

Handball Heats 2pm

Hansel & Gretel

Format Zine Shop

format festival 2011 calendar

Street Dreams Dumpster Biennale

Poppy Nogood

Poppy Nogood, opening 6-9pm

Magazine Gallery

The Den, 4-7pm Hipster Ghetto, 6pm

Fri Feb 25

FEFF, opening 6pm

Adelaide Zine & DIY Fair, 12-5pm, Closing Night Party, 9pm

Adelaide Zine & DIY Fair, 12-5pm

Sink, 2-5pm

World Famous Ghetto Burger

World Famous Ghetto Burger Infuser Format Academy of Words, 11am-5pm

World Famous Ghetto Burger Infuser

Infuser Adelaide Zine & DIY Fair, 12-5pm

World Famous Ghetto Burger Infuser, opening from 1pm, Handball Finals 2pm

World Famous Ghetto Burger, opening 6-9pm

Street Dreams Dumpster Biennale

Street Dreams Dumpster Biennale, opening 6pm

* Susannah Williams’ exhibition will be held at the Format Space Basement for the duration of the festival, excepting some special occasions. * User-generated Cities Forum is at AC Arts Sat Feb 19 and Tuxedo Cat Sun Feb 20 * “Altered Books” exhibition is at The Reading Room from 6pm, Tues Feb 22

Sun Feb 27

Sat Feb 26

Radical Crafernoon from 1pm

Thurs Feb 24

Adelaide Zine & DIY Fair, 12-5pm

FoS #3, 8.30pm

Chinese Nuclear Weapons

Wed Feb 23

Hipster Gateaux, 9pm

Hackerspace, 12-9.30pm

Chinese Nuclear Weapons, opening 6pm

The Martyrdom of Emily Wilding Davison, 2pm Rock Insteadfodd, 8pm

The Martyrdom of Emily Wilding Davison, 2pm The Emma, Nick & Christopher Show, 6pm

Tues Feb 22

42a , 8pm

Sun Feb 20

Mon Feb 21

Open Air Cinema 8pm

Street Dreams Street Art Workshops, 3-6pm

Metalhead FoS #2, 5pm

Sat Feb 19 Sink, 2-5pm

Street Dreams Walking Tour, 5pm

Grousch, 2 & 2.45pm Street Dreams T-Shirt Party, 8pm

Metalhead

tues feb 22 ALTERED BOOKS Becci Love The Reading Room, 6pm Tues Feb 22 onwards Taking inspiration from the reading room’s library, Altered Books is an exhibition of books from personal collections, handmade books, and secondhand books which have been repurposed into new artforms. Sculpture, printmaking, photography, collage, painting and illustration by local and international artists including Sebastien Calabretto, Marlaina Read, Jake One, Meg Cowell, Katherine Coppock, Dan Cadwallader.

CHINESE NUCLEAR WEAPONS CONSPIRACY IN ADELAIDE Chinese Artists Format Space Gallery, 6pm Tues Feb 22 Wed Feb 23 Chinese Nuclear Weapons Conspiracy in Adelaide is a video installation which features a double agent who works for the Australian Boy Scouts and reveals a Communist plot to build a weapon of mass destruction. Since the work involves sensitive political issues, half of the participating artists are pseudonymous. Artists include Fey, Kenny, Tin 13, Michael Retter, Stefan Maguran, and Lionel T.C. Chiou.

ROCK INSTEADFODD

Robin Tetlow-Lord Format Jillian McKeague Space, 8pm Tues Feb 22 If you spent the best part of high school copying dance steps off the more co-ordinated students in the front row, wearing a ‘costume’ comprised of lycra, sequins and cardboard, then this is the 100% shame-and-perfectionism-free event for you! Cheer on our brave amateur dancers or better still, register a team (rockinsteadd@ gmail.com or ‘Rock Insteaddfod Challenge’ on Facebook) and get onstage! To register your interest, send an email to rockinsteadd@gmail. com and we will send you further information, including team registration forms. Participant info session: Late January, date TBA Registration cut-off date: 5pm, Friday February 11 Dress Rehearsal / run-through: Date TBA Performance date: 8pm, Tuesday February 22

wed feb 23 HACKERSPACE

Steven Pickles Format Jillian McKeague Space, 12-9.30pm Wed Feb 23 We, Hackerspace will emerge from the basement of Format to inflict strange and profound awesomeness upon you, the ill-prepared public. Experience our higher-res, vastly cheaper, and far superior version of the Rundle Street Lantern, a mind controlled air cannon, friendly Skype robots, and a shockingly realistic virtual fighting tournament.

WORLD FAMOUS GHETTO BURGER Tristan Kerr Magazine, 6-9pm Wed Feb 23 to Sun Feb 27 A satirical visual tale of a Burger Restaurant captured through the Hand Screen-Printed Art of Tristan Kerr. The exhibition will feature Art prints, T-shirts, Skateboards and painting on timber. This is the first solo exhibition from his current work in Switzerland.

* may include flashing lights, disturbing sounds and amusing injuries. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A visitoooor! Stay a while, stay foooooorrreevooooooorrrrr!!â&#x20AC;?

thurs feb 24 RADICAL CRAFTERNOON – FORMAT EDITION Gemma Sneddon Format Space Gallery, 1pm onwards Thurs Feb 24 Come one, come all - Radical Craft Adelaide will be taking over Format for a day of knitting, stitching and plotting... Creative folks are invited to partake in the shady end of crafting - knitted graffiti, cross-stitched profanity and crocheted zombies. There will be subversive crafty kits, there will be expert tuition for beginners; there will be stitching, bitching and cake. Radical Craft Crew: Crafty and Devious, the Handmade Maiden, Lady of the Knit, the Officer for Social Knitworking, Clothes by Salome and General Sew-it-all.

FFoS VOL. III: “PARTY”

Format Jillian McKeague Space, 9pm Thurs 24 Feb Tash Parker is a Melbourne folkster with a delicate and engrossing voice, weaving engaging stories through lilting melodies. She has just come back from Europe and is recording with Machine Translations genius J Walker. On the other hand, Ainslie Wills is a little bit rock. Bizarre alien harmonies and complex beats are wrapped around folk melodies sung with an incredibly forceful voice. Wills is an underground superstar in Melbourne - her half-hour set filled the Melodica Festival with people who came from nowhere and evaporated immediately into the dust her voice left behind. Not to be missed.

INFUSER

Tristan Louth-Robins Format Zine Shop, 1pm onwards Thurs Feb 24 Fri Feb 25 Sat Feb 26 Infuser is a sound installation for several teapots with loudspeakers (in place of the teapot’s lid) broadcasting sound into the teapot’s chamber. The broadcasted sound is a recording of each teapot’s unique resonant frequency which has been produced from studio recordings of the teapots prior to installation. The intention of the work is to emphasise the unique acoustic properties of an everyday domestic (and in given contexts, ceremonial) object.

fri feb 25 THE DEN

Vanessa Berry & Clara Tzara Format Space Gallery, 4-7pm Fri Feb 25 Step through the bead curtain into The Den – an installation inspired by the best and worst of 1970s home decorating books. Spend an afternoon creating stories and collages, lounging, and eating canapes with zine experts Vanessa Berry and Clara Tzara. Please bring scissors, gluestick, pen and paper. Polyester clothing optional.

HIPSTER GHETTO (in 2D) Format Space Gallery, 6pm Fri Feb 25 Every week an amorphous gaggle of contributors and one befuddled editor throw together an electronic issue of FiveThousand (www. fivethousand.com.au). This includes a cover shot; an image that sets the tone of the issue taken on iPhones by kids, old film pointand-shoots by hipster geniuses, and mums and dads. ‘Hipster Ghetto’ is an exhibition of some of these folks’ photographs. Also features esoteric Melburnian noise courtesy of onion (Adelaide ex-pat Lara Soulio), Mitchell Brennan and Fjorn Butler.

HIPSTER GATEAUX Format Jillian McKeague Space, 9pm Fri Feb 25 Ripper line-up, featuring superhappy-fun Garage-Pop superstars Super Wild Horses (Melbourne), summertime dumb punk from Deep Feelings and High Priest bringing the cosmic dream-pop. Shit, dude.

sat feb 26 FORMAT FESTIVAL CLOSING NIGHT PARTY Format Collective Format Space, 9pm Brought to you by Asahi.

5th ANNUAL ADELAIDE ZINE & DIY FAIR Format Collective Format Space, 12-5pm Sat Feb 26

Sat Feb 26 Dry those tears babies! Like Leaves, Collarbones (Adel/NSW), Per Purpose (Brisbane - 7” launch), and Melbourne’s Church of Hysteria will kiss everything better. Stick around afterwards for the sweaty, sticky, filthy, altogether unseemly GENIUS that is Format Festival’s resident DJ and sexual pioneer, DJ Sex Pest.

It’s back for another year, with zine heavyweights (in output, not cellulite) Sticky, Bastian Fox Phelan, Vanessa Berry, Laura Wills, Elouise Quinlivan, and Lisa Dempster heading the charge to bring DIY publishing to the people. There will be zines galore! Come one, come all to Format’s most enduring and best-loved event.

sun feb 27 FEFF: FORMAT EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL Format Space Gallery & Basement, 6pm Sun Feb 27 The Format Experimental Film Festival is a collection of some of Adelaideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s finest emerging video and multimedia artists.

Featuring moving image works in a range of mediums and themes that embrace installation, interaction, collaboration, animated painting and performance in the revolutionary works of Celeste Aldahn, Henry Jock Walker, Sam Songailo, Jimmy McGilchrist, Brad Lay, Amira.H, Karen Paris, Ray Harris, S. Wilson and more. Exhibition opening on February 27th at 6pm. Continues until March 6th, at Format 15 Peel St. Adelaide.

sun feb 27 FORMAT ACADEMY OF WORDS Format Space, 11am-5pm The word ‘activism’ is loaded with all sorts of smelly, unkempt insinuations, but the idea of being active on behalf of literature is an altogether more soothing, reasonable idea. Think literary ‘advocacy’ if it makes you feel better – or ‘lobbying’, or ‘literary agency’ … now it’s just getting confusing. All of today’s events are focussed on the idea that the publishing industry is changing apace and we are at the coalface. That rhymes! Among the independent, underground, emerging, alternative, innovative writing communities in Australia, there is a lot of dissent being whispered to friends and friends of friends, but not so much in the way of practical ideas about how to guide these rapids of change in the direction of a more democratic, representative, diverse and accessible market for writing, reading and the dissemination of ideas. That’s what Format Festival’s Academy of Words is all about in 2011. A one-day shit-fight about the things we want to see start to happen in the publishing industry. People will argue. People will cry and laugh. Rigorous discussion: 1. Self-congratulatory celebrity fandom: 0. Ryan Paine, FAoW Director

sun feb 27 10am–11pm PANEL “How to Sell Out Losing Your Cred” with Lisa Dempster

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Moving copies doesn’t mean you’ve caught the mainstream. Emerging publishing technology means it is becoming easier to access niche, subcultural markets beyond your immediate circle of friends – meaning you can have a satisfying body of readers without compromising the integrity of your soul. Meet some people who are doing this with panache. 11am–12pm ROUNDTABLE “I Write, Therefore I am a …” with YOU Roundtable about what it means to be a writer, people’s experiences of realising they were a writer, and how to build that realisation into a practice of actually producing quality content, consistently. 12pm–1pm PANEL “Honk if You’re the Publishing Industry” with Shane Jess Christmas

the market for emerging, niche authors and publishers. Individuals are making livings out of publishing their own eBooks, and selling them online. Discussion is rife about how this democratisation of literature production is a boon for the freedom of expression, but what does it mean for the production of literature itself? 1pm–2pm POETRY WORKSHOP “Trans Anatomy Thesis – To Spit Or Swallow?” with Teri Louise Kelly and Jenny Toune A 40-minute trip into the world of performance (word) art, including movement techniques (image), content and just how far the boundaries of this ‘flavour-of-themoment’ hybrid genre can be forced in a society where conservatism appears to reign supreme. This is a non-sterile environment, which will more than likely contain expletives and occassional lewd behaviour cunningly disguised as ‘art’. continued next page

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sun feb 27 FORMAT ACADEMY OF WORDS ctd. 2pm–3pm PANEL “Will Write for Food” with Greg Foyster The remuneration models of the publishing and media industries are all fucked up. Writers, the primary producers in the sector, are the least well paid. Emerging writers get paid nothing, and innovative writers get even nothinger. Do these low pay rates and declining profits in the publishing industry represent a kind of market failure? 3pm–4pm PANEL “Activism Smells“ with Ryan Paine Mainstream literature is dominated by the middle-aged and the middle-

class, and the underground by … well, us. This great divide is bridged by a Wikipedia stub about ‘literary activism’, but that’s about it. A panel about being active on behalf of literature. 4pm–5pm ROUNDTABLE “Where Can We Go From Here?” with YOU The future of literature is in your hands – in the magazines, literary gigs and companies you start. Join these emerging industry figures to discuss starting, establishing and sustaining the projects you have been inspired to start throughout the day, or were already cooking up. 5.00–forever, and ever... A Novelty – literary treasure hunt Doo do doo do …

Updates, panellist bookings and other organic details will be released through Socratic Ignorance is Bliss (www.ryan-paine.com)

pozible Now you can support Format through Pozible! (or: we need all yr moneyz plz) How does Pozible work? Pozible provides project creators with a platform to present their ideas to a worldwide audience. If anyone likes the idea, they can support it by pledging money to the creatorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s project. In return for support, the project creators will offer rewards depending on the level of funding; essentially differentiating itself from the normal funding process. From early February, go to

www.pozible.com.au and click on the Format link in Featured Projects. You can donate whatever amount of money you like after signing up to the site. We will offer rewards to the more gregarious philanthropist. The funding will go to our rent and some maintenance of the venue. Format has always been a volunteer-run, lols-based project, so we very much appreciate your support.

user-generated cities forum Coordinated by Dr. Ianto Ware free to attend A two day forum on cities, self-organising communities, governance, innovation, arts and creative industries, post-globalised culture and drunken anarchists who work for federal government organisations, with: John McTernan, Ben Eltham, Fee Plumley, Marcus Westbury, Cassandra Tombs, Gavin Artz, John Wardle, Stephen Yarwood and more to be announced. Feb 19th at AC Arts (Cnr Currie and Morphett Streets): Panel One, 12PM: Good Ideas and Globalisation: Social Innovators, Creative Industries and Everyone Else Trying To Figure Out Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Going To Happen Over the Next Twenty Years Panel Two 2PM: Cities as the Source of Good Ideas: Why It Happens, How It Happens and What Stops It Happening Feb 20th at Tuxedo Cat (Electra House, 131 King William Street): Workshops 12-5PM: Please RSVP to attend (although if you just turn up, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll probably be okay). For more info visit: renewadelaide.wordpress.com or email: info@renewadelaide.com.au Supported by Arts SA, Bridge 8 and Adelaide Thinkers in Residence

FEFF + BAFF 4 LYFF We’re pumped about the nice people at The Bigpond Adelaide Film Festival (BAFF) supporting The Format Experimental Film Festival (FEFF). Here’s four of our picks from other events in their stellar 2011 program: ReKindling Venus: In Plain Sight Lynette Wallworth’s augmented reality trans-media project, accessed via the free JUNAIO app from 24 February.

Traction Twenty of the best visually progressive music videos from 2010. Metropolis (2010 Restoration) with live score from The New Pollutants Fritz Lang’s visionary sci-fi masterpiece with the Pollutants’ Germanic Trip-Hop and Lo-Fi Electronica accompaniment. Douglas Trumbull The man behind the visual effects in films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Blade Runner will be a special guest of the Festival.

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