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Running
3 October to 27 January 2009 in the laneways and buildings between
George St, Pitt St and Hunter St, Sydney.
In
the laneways and buildings between George Street, Pitt Street and
Hunter Street, Firstdraft Gallery presents Downtown – a series
of events and installations that bring a selection of Sydney’s
finest emerging artists to the centre of the city. For Downtown,
current Firstdraft directors have chosen artists to create interventions
and installations that offer surprising new perspectives and experiences
of the laneways in the CBD as a part of the City of Sydney By George
project. From video art on sports screens at the NSW Sports Association
Bar, to performances adjacent to Australia Square, huge banners
strung from exec blocks, and experimental music in city pubs, Firstdraft
hopes to bring the laneways off George Street alive week-day, week-night
and week-end.
Project
Management: Rosie Fisher and Agatha Gothe-Snape
BANNER
PROJECT
From 10 October, ongoing throughout October
Curated by Agatha Gothe-Snape
Hamilton Lane, Little Hunter and Curtain Place
Shane
Haseman, Vicky Browne, Kel Doley, Mitch Cairns
If
you had the space multinational corporations have for advertising,
what would you say? Four emerging artists get the chance to say
their piece, and have it strung and suspended off buildings and
lamp poles in the centre of the city.
HUNTER
TO HUNTED
From 4 October to 27 January
Curated
by Camille Serisier
Little Hunter Lane
Jelena Telecki, Vicki Papageorgopoulos, Kathryn Gray, Sean Rafferty,
Emily Hunt, Helena Leslie, Teo Treloar, Camille Serisier
Hunter
To Hunted is an exhibition of two dimensional works exhibited in
the window boxes along Little Hunter Lane by a selection of young
artists whose practice involves working on or with paper and cardboard.
Each artist has been asked to respond to the theme of ‘the
hunt’, to produce a work specifically designed for exhibition
in this hidden laneway.
OVERFLOW
From 17 October
Permanent
gutter mural along length of Curtin Place
Agatha
Gothe-Snape
Wending
and weaving its way along the north side gutter of Curtin Place,
Overflow traces the flows of energies in the city – the passage
of the Tank Stream, the tracks of pedestrians, the streams of optic
cables, the grind of peak hour traffic and the spectrum of frequencies
that fly about our heads everyday.
MINI-mART
Friday 17 October, 3 – 8pm
Curated by Will French
Curtain Place
Leo
Coyte, Matthew Tumbers, James Harney
I
guess you might say mini-mART is a meditation on the misaligned.
It’s the Art version of trying to suck a golf ball through
a hose, remarkably unlikely but impressive once achieved!
mini-mART
showcases three Sydney Artists, each exhibiting their respective
works in one of three original 60’s Mini’s. The Italian
Job of art tackles the mini’s restrictions head on, as the
installations take place within and around the cars conquering the
challenges these wonderful little cars present.
Billed
as a car boot sale meets self-contained arts festival, mini mart
will be producing saleable art items and also providing both the
forecourt of the AMP Building at Circular Quay AMP and Curtin Place
with an interactive experience with art. We encourage participation,
socialisation, and mental emancipation.
MDCD
(Mobile Democratic Communication Device)
Friday 17 October, 4 – 8pm
In and around the laneways
Michaela
Gleave
Part 'hot-dog' stand, part polling booth, and part mobile radio
transmitter, the MDCD is a portable, bubble-powered communication
unit devised to facilitate the public and democratic use of communicative
air space.
WORK!
Friday 17 October, 4:30 – 6:30pm
Hamilton Lane, Little Hunter and Curtain Place
Curated by Kelly Doley
Kate
Mitchell, Jess Olivieri and Hayley Forward, Eddie Sharp, Brown Council
Four
artists respond to the idea of work through performance, where career
aspiration and the 9-5 lifestyle become a repetitive task, a ladder
climbing activity or a glitzy show number.
VIDEO-HERO
Friday 17 October, 6 – 9pm
AT LEGENDS BAR
Heroes on Hunter, cnr. Little Hunter and Hunter St
Curated by Di Smith
Rachel
Fuller, Rachel Scott, Kate Blackmore, Lauren Brincat, Dom Kirkwood,
Kenzie Larsen, Liam Benson, Sach Catts
Video
Hero hijacks the television screens in the NSW Sports Club and replaces
the games of football and dog races with the work of eight Sydney
based video artists. The exhibition responds to the proliferation
of screens in the public domain and in places of leisure and recreation,
such as the local pub or club. The artists selected respond directly
to this environment in which sporting stars and celebrities compete
for the attention of the punters. They reinvent and reinterpret
the representation of the ‘hero,’ tuning the audience
into alternative channels that reveal a flexing bicep clad in gold
leaf, or an amateur hammer thrower swinging aimlessly in the park.
DOWNTOWN
at the grand
Saturday 25 October, from 8pm.
The Grand Hotel, 30 Hunter St.
Curated by Cy Norman
Please
join us at the Grand Hotel for drinks to celebrate the wrapping
up and closing down of Downtown.
Featuring
performances from PA, Alps of New South Wales and Kusum Normoyle
and play-lists selected by emerging artists around the theme of
‘Downtown’
PLUS MANY
MORE TEMPORARY ART INSTALLATIONS!
BY GEORGE AND FIRSTDRAFT GALLERY PRESENTS Downtown.
5 October – 17 October, and ongoing throughout Spring and
Summer 2008.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
CONTACT:
ROSIE FISHER: fisher.rosie@gmail.com | 0411 500 924
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