Concrete Playground

Saturday, 25th July - Saturday, 8th August
@ Black & Blue Gallery

"In the end, our knowledge will have its revenge on us." (Nietzche)In his latest exhibition We Can’t Put it Together. It is Together. Jesse Hogan peers behind the curtain to see if there really is life after death. No, Hogan is not about to start preaching or perform live experiments...

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Wednesday, 29th July - 3AM
@ DAB Lab Research Gallery

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know how to knit and those who don’t. And then there is Alana Clifton-Cunningham. Combining wool with leather, timber and semi precious stones, this Fashion and Textiles lecturer at UTS creates woolly wearables that hover somewhere between fashion, sculpture...

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Friday, 31st July - 3AM
@ Ivan Dougherty Gallery

Sustain you. Sustain me. Sustain it for always. That’s the way it should be. Sustainability may be the buzzword du jour, but my, what an excellent thing to be buzzing about. Sustain Me: Contemporary Design is a group exhibition of Australian and international designers who are engaging with ideas of...

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Tuesday, 8th September - 3AM
@ Critical Path

Architecture, film and dance all jostle for space underneath the ‘creative’ umbrella but rarely do they hold hands or play footsies. That was before cultural aphrodisiac SEAM 2009: Spatial Phrases entered the playing field and transformed Sydney’s arts and design scene into a commune of free love. A partnership between...

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Monday, 24th August - 3AM
@ Rose Seidler House

Back when the world population totalled 2.52 billion and houses cost less than the price of a hatchback today, Elvis was a rookie and polyester was the fabric of the future. Yes dear reader, this was the Golden Age nestled between the austere Forties and free-loving Sixties. This was an...

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Thursday, 3rd September - 3AM
@ Powerhouse Museum

Contained within a museum–like cage and existing on a diet of images, videos and sound files is Artefact H10515, the digital offspring of Australian artist Craig Walsh and his trusty helpers Steven Thomasson and Lawrence English.Soon to be inhabiting the Powerhouse Museum, this gastronomic chameleon digests digital matter dispatched from...

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Sunday, 4th October - 4AM
@ Sydney Opera House

Next time you are having dinner at your partner’s parents place, I dare you to clear your throat and start a conversation about the merits of polygamy. Or perhaps you might inform your friends that their kids’ brains are rotten due to them soaking up social networking fodder like a...

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Tuesday, 6th October - 4AM
@ Circular Quay

Following the October long weekend, tolerance for ill-conceived built environments will suffer another crushing blow. Like it or lump it, architecture shapes every space we inhabit. Advocating the dictum ‘good architecture, good life’, the annual Architecture Festival takes place on World Architecture Day, Monday 5 October, in the some say...

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Monday, 19th October - 8AM
@ Opera Theatre, Sydney Opera House

May I have your attention please. If you believe that food should taste good and be produced in a way that doesn't hurt the earth, its critters or your health, then whether you know it or not, you are part of the Slow Food movement. While Australians have been nattering...

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Friday, 30th October - Saturday, 28th November
@ Ivan Dougherty Gallery

A standout talk at last years’ Biennale of Sydney was a confessional rant by visiting artist Ryan Gander. For an hour, Gander charged himself with the task of divulging every lie he had uttered in the course of making and promoting his work. This included admitting that a conceptual series...

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Friday, 23rd October - Saturday, 19th December
@ Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation

Upon sighting the work of Charwei Tsai, all the irritating background noise rumbles and fades into the distance. Quietly consuming all attention are Buddhist mantras delicately handwritten on the surface of ice, tofu and lotus leaves. Flouting the art = commodity equation, Tsai’s installations are an exquisite meditation on the...

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Thursday, 5th November - Sunday, 22nd November
@ MOP Projects

Stripping off and posing for the camera proved to be an intimate andcontemplative moment for the models photographed by Emma Thomson in herseries I want something special.When staring down the barrel of the truth-gun (the camera),naval-gazing musings are what sprang forth. Whether single men, younggirls, couples or a friendly looking...

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Friday, 30th October - Saturday, 21st November
@ Kaliman Gallery

The imagination of Adam Cullen is a weird and wonderful place. Grotesquely Pop-tastic, this mini retrospective of work resembles a circus of demented figures cast from wild brush strokes and bold lashings of paint splattered across the canvas. Cullen lures his audience into a rainbow coloured nightmare, where buxom honey...

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Thursday, 18th March - Sunday, 18th April
@ Rookwood Cemetery

Braving the clogged artery that is Parramatta Road, headed for the biggest Victorian cemetery in the Southern Hemisphere to take an early morning sculpture walk, wasn't a typical start to a day. Yet arriving at the Reflections At Rookwood Café, I started to wonder if perhaps I was alone in...

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