Where: Level 2, Seminar Room
To mark the end of this six-day bookmaking initiative, join us for a juried event where a panel of art and publishing professionals will select and present their favourite publications produced through BOOK MACHINE, (Sydney) II.
Where: Level G, Theatrette
Reading Oceania is a group that meets regularly to discuss texts inspired by Pacific or Oceanic Cosmology. This gathering will feature international guests Latai Taumoepeau and Jochen Roller appearing via live video link.
Where: Level 2, Seminar Room
Our headline talks for VOLUME 2017 are presented by Parker Bruce of Badlands Unlimited, New York, and Freek Lomme of Onomatopee, Eindhoven.
Where: Level G, Ideas Platform
The relevance of painting has been questioned many times over the last century, by the arrival of photography, installation art and digital technologies. But rather than accept the death of painting, Mark Titmarsh traces a paradoxical interface between this art form and its opposing forces to define a new practice known as 'expanded painting', giving the term historical context, theoretical structure and an important place in contemporary practice.
Where: Level G, Theatrette
A Communion of Stranger Gestures is the first significant publication dedicated to chronicling the practice of one of Australia's leading contemporary artists.
Where: Level G, Ideas Platform
Dylan Smyth is a Newcastle-based artist primarily working in photography with a strong interest in the built environment.
Where: Level G, Theatrette
Artists Gemma Smith and Stephen Ormandy discuss their new publications, in conversation with publishers and designers Mark Gowing and Elliott Bryce Foulkes of Formist.
Where: Level G, Theatrette
Filipina-Australian poetEunice Andrada will harana (serenade) audiences with powerful verses inspired by diaspora, womynhood and the politics of home.
Where: Level G, Theatrette
Celebrate the launch of un Magazine 11.2: Laugh now, cry later with a talk by Guest Editor David Capra. Sub-Edited by Amelia Winata, 11.2 features over 25 writers and practitioners exploring the intersection of humour and art, and the notion of frivolity in artistic practice.
Where: Level G, Ideas Platform
Award-winning filmmaker Marcus Gillezeau is researching a new documentary focusing on The Gunnery between 1985–91 when it was an artist-run collective. Gillezeau was part of the artistic cohort squatting in the building at the time and is now seeking archival material from the period including photos, video, artworks, posters and stories. If you have any material or stories you can share, come and meet Marcus during VOLUME 2017.
Where: Level G, Theatrette
Canvas: Art & Ideas on FBi Radio 94.5FMwill present their weekly program live from VOLUME 2017, with international guestsFreek Lomme of Onomatopee and Parker Bruce of Badlands Unlimited; Athena X of The Real Housewives of Sydney with Giselle Stanborough; and Malcolm Whittaker with Sarah Rodigari.
Where: Level 2, Seminar Room
A special VOLUME 2017 edition of the popular monthly event Queerstories, with artists and performers Nell, George Tillianakis, KoCo Carey, writer Allison Gallagher and sex worker Tilly Lawless. Presented in association with writer and performer Maeve Marsden. Please note this is an unticketed event with limited seating.
Where: Level G, Ideas Platform
A discussion and workshop on collaboration, networking and finding your own space, together, with Ladies of Leisure (LOL), Catalogue Magazine and The Ladies Network.
Where: Level G, Theatrette
In Sexy Art School Japanese artist Ken Kagami subverts the traditional artist talk / lecture by inviting the audience to collaborate in considering the naughty possibilities inherent in seemingly innocuous language and imagery.
Where: Level G, Theatrette
A new performance, Quantification, the companion piece to her yet-to-be-released Masters thesis, Qualification.
Where: Level G, Ideas Platform
Discontinued Narratives (of Migration) is a short survey of the work of Australian artist Elizabeth Day, centred on the theme of migration as a metaphor for understanding and defining interdisciplinary practice. The publication will be launched by Dr Anne Bond.
Where: Level G, Ideas Platform
The Wake is a gathering of spirits, relatives, friends and lovers. Culminating in the form of objects, the artist Nell explores binary opposites: life and death, happiness and sadness, light and dark. From its inclusion in the 2016 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, to its display at the Shepparton Art Museum in Victoria, The Wake now also exists in this first book on Nell's practice. Published by STATION, this monograph includes words by Julie Ewington and images of the 41 works that make up The Wake.
Where: Level G, Theatrette
Filipina-Australian poet Eunice Andrada will harana (serenade) audiences with powerful verses inspired by diaspora, womynhood and the politics of home.
Where: Level G, Theatrette
Short readings by the artists/writers Astrid Lorange, Matthew Hopkins, Emma Size and Andrew Brooks.
Where: Level G, Ideas Platform
Portrait Session is a performance in which Japanese artist Ken Kagami attempts the complicated task of creating work that is straightforwardly funny. Viewers are actively invited to participate by sitting for a free portrait drawn by the artist, which will imaginatively consider certain discreet parts of the sitter's body (unlike the traditional artist’s model, it will not be necessary for participants to undress).
Where: Level G, Ideas Platform
The launch of Izabela Pluta’s artist book developed during BOOK MACHINE, an initiative of onestar press, Paris and powered by Artspace, Sydney for VOLUME 2015 | Another Art Book Fair.
Where: Level G, Ideas Platform
Open Spatial Workshop: Converging in Time was published on the occasion of the first major museum exhibition by Open Spatial Workshop (comprising artists Terri Bird, Bianca Hester and Scott Mitchell). The publication will be launched by contributor Matt Poll, Curator, Indigenous Heritage and Repatriation Project, Macleay Museum, University of Sydney.
Where: Level G, Theatrette
The Sydney launch of the first monograph on the work of Brisbane-based artist and musician Ross Manning, produced on the occasion of the exhibition Dissonant Rhythms at the IMA, Brisbane, 5 August – 28 October 2017, with presentation by academic and contributor Caleb Kelly.
Where: Level G, Ideas Platform
Éditions curates contemporary art and publishing by collaborating with artists to release collections of limited works. Éditions aims to bring their discerning collectors works from emerging and established artists in the form of new and unreleased editions, including multiples, one of a kinds, books and special editions.
Where: Level G, Theatrette
Interlude Gallery, Sydney, will be presenting the first in a series of nomadic symposiums, featuring the rotating contributors from their Interlude Writers Program. The symposium will be exploring ‘The act of writing’, opening discussion through live performances and readings by Stephanie Cobon, Carla Uriarte, Jenny Alaca, Harriet Maclnerney and Molly Morphew.
Where: Level G, Theatrette
In her delicately wrought essays and hand-drawn maps, Vanessa Berry describes her encounters with unusual, forgotten or abandoned places in the city in which she was born and raised, using their details to open up repositories of significance, and to create an alternative city, a Mirror Sydney, illuminated by memory and imagination.
Where: Level G, Ideas Platform
What actions do we need to take to ensure Indigenous artists’ rights are protected? How do critical Indigenous methodologies change the ways we work? Drop in to NAVA and read, chat and participate in a Book Club. This is your chance to discuss everything from fake art, copyright, cultural protocols and future methodologies for artists.
Where: Level G, Ideas Platform
Lost Rocks (2017–21) is an ambitious, slow-publishing artwork – a library of forty books, four books published twice yearly for the next five years. Forty single traces, ten dynamic seams, or one spectacular forty-rock Lost Rocks Library. Brought to life by Australian artists Justy Phillips and Margaret Woodward (A Published Event) and composed by forty contemporary artists from around the world, Lost Rocks is an accumulative event of mineralogical, metaphysical and metallurgical telling.
Where: Level G, Theatrette
A visual reading from Sindel’s comic book adaptation of Moby Dick. Sindel has developed his storytelling craft since childhood, overcoming considerable learning difficulties to develop into a fluent wordsmith and illustrator. He is mentored by artist Leigh Rigozzi and has collaborated with arts organisations Erth and Curiousworks.
Where: Level G, Ideas Platform
Shibboleth – The Shaman’s Apprentice is a novel of both the sacred and profane. It is a story with moral purpose, based on an extraordinary account of one man’s journey along a less trampled path.
