on talks, other’s weeds and old pictures
You are giving a talk about your practice as part of the Artist’s Talks session in conjunction with the latest show: Saturday 8th of march, 4.30pm FirstDraft Gallery, 116-118 Chalmers St, Surry Hills, NSW You are grossly unprepared for this one, at the moment working full time installing Fiona Hall at the MCA, leaving little […]
the show
On Wednesday for the opening of the group show there were plenty. It happens when you have group shows. If each brings along ten friends/family you have an instant crowd. This one was even more so, as many of the arrtist involved have a vast network of friends, being active in many circles at various […]
On Science Fairs
Just on the fine line between shaman and charlatan you (w)talked before: The Science Fair at firstdraft 20th February – 8th March 2008 Opening: 20th February 6pm – 8pm Artist Talks: 8th March, 4:30pm Diego Bonetto Marley Dawson Naomi Derrick Anna John Matthew P. Hopkins Vicki Papageorgopoulos Emma Ramsay Matthew Tumbers Alex Vivian Simon Yates […]
on sowthistle
Pic from the Royal Botanic Garden Herbarioum AKA: DE : Kohl-Gänsedistel ; ES : cerraja común ; FR : laiteron maraîcher ; IT : grespino comune, sonco ; PT : serralha-macia ; EN : smooth sow-thistle ; NL : gewone melkdistel ; DK : almindelig svinemælk This is one of two Sonchus spp. (Sowthistles) that […]
a weed tour, tomorrow, in petersham. come!
Art in the Park: Cross-pollinations 9th December 2007 A biannual exhibition of sculpture and installation art that engages critically with shared green space in the city You are invited to Cross-pollinations, an outdoor exhibition on the site of a former plant nursery, once home to seedbeds, ferneries, fishponds and a hothouse. For one day only, […]
on not quite art
Tomorrow, Tuesday 30 October, 10 Pm, the last of a three part series will be broadcasted on ABC. The series aims at showcasing an aspect of culture rarely sen on tv here in Australia, the “outsiders”. Host Marcus Westbury, founder of the This is Not Art Festival in Newcastle and the former director of Next […]
Tonight, 10pm, ABC, on weeds and reasons for arguing
The Weedyconnection project has been selected as part of a program on the ABC tonight, Not Quite Art, written and produced by Marcus Westbury. The progarm present a number of art projects and artistic attitudes, from street art in melbourne to alternative art scenes in Newcastle, NSW, Australia, to Glasgow, Scotland. You can read a […]
on permaculture, and someone who can explain it to you
To date you never touched yet the concept of Permaculture, mostly because you wouldn’t want to say the wrong things, you do not know enough about it to even attempt a broad insight. All you can do is cut-n-paste writings on the subject, like the Wikipedia definition for the concept of “permanent agriculture”: The word […]
on talking about it
There is a conference coming up at the University of Technology, Sydney, and you will preesent a paper about this weedyconnection project. UTS CONFERENCE ON COSMOPOLITAN CIVIL SOCIETIES 4 + 5 OCT What does cosmopolitanism mean in an age where globalisation is accompanied by the War on Terror and where unprecedented levels of international migration […]
On Changing The Look
Apologies to all readers, the blog is undergoing a bit of a reshape to make it more relevant. I’ve changed the WordPress ( blog provider) theme (the way it looks), adding a bunch of feautures like the link bar on the left to the rest of weedyconnection’s online facilities, while keeping feautures from the earlier […]
