May - June: ART#2
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, ACCA
Launched in 2010, the ACCA Regional Tour (ART) series is designed to bring the latest works from the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art to regional Victoria. This year the fun continues with ART#2, a program of specifically designed projects for the Horsham, Hamilton and Warrnambool regional galleries and communities.
ART#2 will open on May 6th at Horsham Regional Art Gallery with an exhibition of works that respond to the photographic focus of the Horsham collection. Artists Stuart Ringholt, Nicholas Mangan, Bianca Hester, Joshua Petherick, Fiona Abicare, Benjamin Armstrong, Matthew Griffin and Damiano Bertoli will each present works that explore image making through collage, cut-ups and photograms. Video artists TV Moore, Laresa Kosloff and Justene Williams will also exhibit recent works that question the stability of the image and archive.
The ART#2 Horsham season will culminate on the Queens Birthday Long Weekend (11-12 June) with a two-day festival of art events, interventions, happenings and activities in Horsham and nearby Natimuk. Please visit for further information.
www.accaonline.org.au/ART2LongWeekendProgram
As part of the ART#2 Long Weekend Program, Natimuk will host the following works by Melbourne artist, Gabrielle de Vietri.
>>Event Philosophy for Kids (2009-)
Visit Natimuk's Goat Gallery to view 3 chapters of Gabrielle de Vietri's ongoing series, Philosophy for Kids. Gabrielle began making documentaries with children in 2008. Using an interview-style format, these video works ask a small group of Melbourne kids some of life's biggest questions: What is beauty? How do we live together? What is out there? Their answers are both enlightening and entertaining. Their delivery ranging from the knowing to the speculative and hesitant. Each response offers an insight into how young minds relish the imagination and how children are shaped, over time, by those around them.
Venue Goat Gallery, 87A Main Street, Natimuk
Date 7 May – 3 July
Time 1–4pm weekends, or by appointment through the Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Tel 5362 2888
>>Event L'Esprit de l'Escalier (2011)
Join us for ART#2's closing drinks and the premiere of a new, locally-made documentary by Gabrielle de Vietri at the Natimuk Town Hall. Developed while the artist was on residency in Horsham and Natimuk, L'Esprit de l'Escalier focuses on a group of 7 to 12-year-old children and elderly local residents from the Horsham area.
French philosopher, Diderot, coined the term l'esprit de l'escalier (staircase wit) in 1773. He used it to describe the event of thinking of a clever response only when it is too late to deliver it to its intended receiver. In L'Esprit de l'Escalier De Vietri applies this logic through workshops, discussions and dramaturgy and has worked intensively with her participants to identify moments in their short, or lengthy, lives where they have missed out on the opportunity to express themselves.
Whether in an argument with their sibling, an incorrect answer to a question, or in response to a taunt from a bully on the sporting field, de Vietri gives the participants the chance to recreate these moments and deliver their long-overdue comebacks. Drinks and nibbles provided!
Venue Natimuk Town Hall, Main Street, Natimuk
Date Sunday 12 June
Time 5.15pm screening of Gabrielle de Vietri's L'Esprit de l'Escalier. Also screening video works by Laresa Kosloff & Andy Thomson featuring the Natimuk Bowls Club (5.45pm) and Nathan Gray and the Natimuk Brass Band (6.30pm).
