Big Tent Revival

Big Tent Revival. Second Coming of the Tent to Kibble Park.

Weather permitting, we will pitch the Art Tent,
“Ceci n’est pas Baba”,
on Saturday the 8th of March, 2008.

(Image credit - Banksy)

With a Programme to Edify, Amuse and Provoke.

It will feature:
Presentations and restaging of past projects in the Click Here Series, including the Bloomsday psychogeographic dérive.
Make your mark!
There will be an opportunity to contribute your impressions to a collective “mapping” of Gosford.
Technical wonders!
We will make use of new technical advancements on the Magic Lantern, the Lumière brothers’ Cinematographe, and Edison’s “Talking Machine”, the Gramophone (all demonstrated in the Gosford School of Arts in the 1890s), in the form of DVD and PowerPoint projections.
Live Conversation!
As with the parable of the six blind men asked to describe an elephant, six topics examining aspects of contemporary art practice in Gosford will make up a schedule for open discussions. These hybrid performance installation-roundtable discussions have been designed to facilitate informal conversations. Come along and give your opinion!

During the event no harm will be inflicted unnecessarily on elephants in the room, real or imagined.

Watch this space for updates, schedules and details.

GoG postponed

The heavy rain on Saturday morning meant that the scheduled artists’ forum, Gaff on the Green”, had to be postponed.

However because of the high level of interest in having a gathering of this kind to discuss the role of contemporary art in the future of Gosford, and of a coordinated Creative Gosford initiative, the event will be rescheduled for early next year.


A fortunate outcome, despite the, rain, was that the Guest Speaker Associate Professor Adrian Hall had a chance to meet and talk to a number of Gosford artists. He has expressed a strong interest in returning to offer whatever help he can. His international expertise in education and contemporary practice will be a welcome contribution to strengthening skills and focusing professional opportunities in the region.

Discussions will be continuing with him regarding his role in the formation of an independent tertiary “contemporary art college” in Gosford to service some of the region’s educational needs locally.

Until the next Gaff on the Green, we will use the time to develop ideas before returning to Kibble Park. If you have some topics you would like to add to the conversation, please email them to us , and perhaps some informal discussions can be arranged soon.

The image is of an art performance by Adrian Hall. It took place at Somersby in 1998 as part of Eco-poetics, an international artists project organised by Synapse Art Initiatives.

Gaff on the Green - speaker

Gaff on the Green.
Special Guest speaker. 3pm.

Assoc. Professor Adrian Hall (retired) will give the keynote talk at Gaff on the Green.

This is a unique opportunity for us. Adrian, since moving to New Zealand after leaving COFA, has been unavailable for events such as this. For me, and many others, his absence and his past frequent calling to account of art practices lacking critical rigour, has been sorely missed – along with his humour. So it is great to have a chance to hear from him again.

Adrian Hall, as an artist and educator, has been an inspirational and catalytic presence in Australia as well as in a number of countries overseas. He has an uncompromising integrity in his approach to his work and a commitment to the compelling and enigmatic nature of art as a vital process of knowing.

As a key figure at SCA in the 1980s, he has had a lasting influence on students and colleagues alike.

Gaff on the Green

GAFF ON THE GREEN

We would like to inform you of an event to take place in the centre of Gosford City, and to invite you to join us.

The event is Gaff on the Green, and will take place on Saturday the 1st of December in Kibble Park. It is part of a series of contemporary art activities collectively titled “Click Here” organised by Brown’s Cows Art Projects and carried out in conjunction with GAFF (Gosford Art Flux Forum) incorporated.

We will be joined for Gaff on the Green by eO incorporated, the Central Coast Contemporary Art Initiative.

Gaff on the Green, as part of “Click Here,” is supported by a Cultural Grant from Gosford City Council.

Marie Andrews, member of state parliament for Gosford, will open the GAFF at 3pm.

The directors of Brown’s Cows and GAFF are working to bring art and cultural activities into the heart of the town; to contribute to its regeneration and redefinition as a vibrant regional capital, and to involve local emerging artists in practices and issues at the leading edge of art.

For Gaff on the Green, a tent will be erected on the “hill” in Kibble Park, where discussion groups and forums will take place in the afternoon, with a visually illustrated seminar, “at the Still Point” scheduled for the evening.

Discussions will canvass a number of issues concerning local artists including:

Resources for contemporary practices.
Priorities in infrastructure support planning.
Future art.
Keeping and nurturing emerging artists in the region.
A “Creative Gosford” action taskforce.
The Spaces and Places Framework Report.
The Creative (?) Industries
Provision of education for contemporary art professionals.
Etc. BYO

If you have any issues you would like to have added, forward them to us, or bring them along on the day.
Outcomes from the discussions will be taken forward appropriately.

Schedule at this stage:
2pm. Artists and artists groups Open Discussion.
3pm. Short addresses by Maries Andrews MP for Gosford, Gosford Councillors and Debra Schleger, Manager Art and Culture.
3.15. Key note address. (Surprise guest)
3.30 –4pm. sessions for future plans and strategies as a consequence of ideas emerging from previous discussions and conversations.

In the evening we will hold a “seminar” presentation on the subject of live art; performance, body work, dance and hybrid forms. It will take place after dark so that video projections can be used to complement the discussion.

For further information, contact:
gaff@brownscows.com