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longside fellow COFA design grad Adrian Moore, Max runs Spoken Authors – a commercial design agency that facilitates community-based design projects and hooks up talented individuals from in different backgrounds diff with worthy causes. wit Their latest project is The the transformation of Marrickville’s Sashimi Ma Warehouse from a Wa massive disused space mas full of crazy junk into community venue a co that contains a gallery, workshop, screen-printing wor studio, gig space – and a stud 7m sskateboard ramp. All done in six months, with tiny budget of $7500. a tin WTF. WTF How did you guys connect? We met one conn another four and a half anoth years ago in the first week of our design degree at COFA. Since degr then we have always the worked together and w
Cheeky Australian artist TV Moore has an upcoming exhibition of playful, psychedelic and hyper-colourful photographs. The still prints are a departure from his more serious multi-channel video works, but they retain a deeper critique of ‘high’ art; fragmented images peek through streaks of finger painting and colour spiking, inviting viewers to look beyond the surface of the image. The exhibition brings together a suite of “paintings about paintings”, littered with distinctly
[at COFA we] soon became notorious for being inseparable, Adrian always with his skateboard and me with dishevelled hair, and camera hanging off the shoulder. What do you do when you’re not designing? Adrian skates like a maniac, loves to surf and plays drums whenever he gets the chance. I, on the other hand, prefer to take photographs, read, cook and drink the worst cask wine with the best people. How did you come up with the idea for Spoken Authors? The concept was developed in our final year of uni, as we wanted to find a way to continue to work together in the future. Over time this idea developed into a business model that aims to give young and talented individuals from a diverse range of educational backgrounds the ability to move beyond 2D representations of their ideas and to see their designs implemented in the real world. We wanted to extend the educational framework that university provides by offering short-term, well-structured projects that also benefit the broader community. This is where the Sashimi warehouse comes in. Who was on the Sashimi refit team? After establishing a brief with the artist group running the space, Adrian and I focused on recruiting creative minds for the project and we encouraged lateral thinking to produce an inspiring space on a tight budget of $7500. Our team consisted of industrial designers Nonda Maroulis and Emiel Saada,
Australian cultural references. Daze of Being Wild opens July 26 at Robyn Oxley9 Gallery (8 Soudan Lane, Paddington) and is showing until August 18.
MCA CLOTHING EXCHANGE
Time to freshen up your wardrobe? Got some extra clothes or accessories lying around? Give them a fresh shot at outfit glory at the MCA Clothing Exchange. Check your unwanted goods at the door in exchange for swap-credit and grab yourself some
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renewable energy engineer Fabian Muschalik, art curator Tom Glenn (formerly of Oh Really), interior architect Sophie La, and Jackson Wallace. How’d you do it so cheap? Most of the design elements were fabricated primarily from recycled materials, by novice hands with the guidance and knowledge of experienced builders. The finished space also features murals by Tom Ferson, The Dirt, Birdhat, Skulk, Vars One, Ox and Houl. What: Sashimi Warehouse Where: 44-46 Fitzroy St, Marrickville When: Freshly launched, open now! More: facebook.com/ spokenauthors
50/50! DVD! WINNING! Seth Rogen and Joseph Gordon ‘babeface’-Levitt team up in this bromantic dramedy about a 20-something writer who tries to remain positive after being diagnosed with cancer, with a little help from his mate. It’s based on the real-life story of Rogen’s bestie Will Reiser, who wrote the script, Rogen takes producing duties, and Jonathan Levine, director of the ‘90s New York hip-hop-and-weed coming-of-age tale The Wackness, directs. So expect a nice mix of laffs, warm fuzzies, the occasional sad face, and at least one tribute to the power off the bong. th b Thanks to Roadshow, we have five copies of 50/50 on DVD up for grabs; to get your hands on one, email us with the name of one other film starring Seth Rogen.
sweet threads. With any left over items to be donated to the Salvation Army, it’ll boost your good karma levels too. Get in on the clothesswapping action Sunday July 22 from 11am until 5pm in the MCA Foundation Hall. Just remember, one dodgy uncle’s paisley suit is another hipster’s sweet retro threads. For detailed swapping guidelines visit mca.com. au/events/mca-clothing-exchange
Finn Lafcadio O'Hanlon – Untitled (detail)
WILD DAZE
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Max and Adrian as illlustrated by Alexander Hope
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt & Seth Rogen
VNA X LISTER
UK street art mag Very Nearly Almost is coming Down Under this week to launch issue #19, which features expat graf hero Anthony Lister, by all accounts sharing “tales of debauchery” and “the inner workings of his mind and multiple personas”. Lister is creating a special drop of limited-edition customised mags, featuring a four-colour screen-print created exclusively for the occasion – which you can purchase if you turn up early for the launch party this Friday. So if collectible affordable art is your bag, this event has you covered – there’ll also be a far less portable but freshly-painted and specially commissioned wall by Lister, Skel, Shannon Crees, Sprinkles and Alex Lehours, and live music by DJs Rolls Royce and Kato. ALL THE GOOD PEOPLE. Friday July 13 from 6-9pm at Oxford Art Factory.
SURRY HILLS ARTS
The Surry Hills Festival has opened submissions from artists, performers and creative types wanting to be part of this year’s fest, taking place Saturday October 27 in Prince Alfred Park. Now helmed by the people behind Peats Ridge, the Fest is gunning for a far more expansive, no-holdsbarred arts and performance program, and is expecting crowds around the 90,000 mark – which should more than sate your inner exhibitionist. So start asking yourself those crucial questions: ‘Are my stilts really robust and secure?’/‘Could my mime be more site-specfic?’/'Is my performance art really sustainable?’ and head to surryhillsfestival. com for more useful information. Applications close August 16.
HERE WE ARE
Opening at MiCK gallery this week is a group show spanning all the artz – sculpture, photography, video, illustration, collage – with new works by polymathic purveyor of psychedelia Brett Chan, Sydney photographer Samuel Hodge, New York-based ex-Sydney colour merchant (and printmaker) Elizabeth Corkery, young Sydney-via-Tulsa surf-photographerslash-illustrator Finn Lafcadio O’Hanlon, sculptural interventionist Louisa Dawson, collagist Kyle Montgomery (China Heights) and mixed-media artist Zoë Macdonell. Kind of a silly amount of talent in one space. Here We Are runs July 30 – September 2 at MiCK (44 Gurner St Paddington) mickthegallery.com
MORE AWESOME THE MILITARY-FLORAL COMPLEX
Sydney-based painter-turned photographer Phillip George is opening an exhibition of his large-scale, digitally manipulated rose portraits at Breenspace this week, under the banner Fog Garden. George, whose exhibition of Arabesque surfboards a few years back dovetailed with cultural aftermath of the Cronulla race riots, has a long standing interest in Middle Eastern culture, politics and aesthetics, and his ‘roses’ series takes a potent aesthetic motif and symbol of both Persian and Western culture, and overlays it with Arabesque and post-Renaissance decorative patterns, and the contours of modern military machinery…Most importantly, of course, they look really stunning. Fog Garden opens Thursday July 12 at Breenspace (Level 3, 17–19 Alberta Street Sydney). breenspace.com
SCHOOL OF LIFE
And finally, some good news: philosopher Alain de Botton is lending out his School Of Life concept for one afternoon of lifemending magic at Sydney Opera House, featuring presenter Gretel Killeen, activist Anna Rose, financial expert John Armstrong and columnist and author Tom Chatfield taking you through mini-presentations on communication, climate change, combating financial insecurity, and thriving in the digital age, respectively (or: How To Tweet In Support Of The Carbon Tax) Sunday July 15 from 4pm in the Studio. sydneyoperahouse.com
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Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim are now bringing even more Awesome (show) to Sydney, with another date added to their Down Under tour. It’s happening Wednesday October 3 at the Enmore, and will no doubt feature more jokes involving poop, puke and paedophiles than you can shake a kitten at – and, according to the presser “dancing, singing, poetry, videos and signings after the shows”, which suggests that it will probably be the best $70 you spent, ever. Alternatively, if you hate Wednesdays, there might be tickets available for their October 2 Metro Theatre show, which is potentially where all the really hardcore Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! fans will be.