We had a great catch up on a Sunday afternoon for working bee
and some creative decision making. Firstly you're all invited to our exhibition! Where: Tenth and Gibson When: 28-30 October (middle weekend of Feast) What: Exhibition Opening and Awards Night 5-8pm on Friday 28th Meet the Artists: 10-6pm Saturday 29th Artists' Panel: 3-5pm on Sunday 30th Please bring along your friends, family and colleagues. Pick up a Zine while you're there. NOW... THE 'TO DO' JOBS All thumbnails and bios are now due (details below) All titles and descriptions of each piece are due on Friday 16 Sep We need all images as .png or .tiff files capable of being printed at 300 dpi If you have a preference for the size or framing for your piece, or where it fits in the exhibition we need to know NOW! If you're confused about anything get in touch! E:mail sonja@incitestories.com.au At the end of the zine and last stage of the exhibition we propose a ‘contributors’ section that will be a thumbnail ’self-representation’ composed of 9-12 separate photos of ‘bits of you’. Then write 50-100 words about your self-representation. Even if you haven’t submitted anything else for the exhibition or zine, we can include these ‘mini-profiles’ at the end of the catalogue and, in the last panel in the exhibition. Finals due NOW Consolidation of text contributions/bios/titles for printing: 2-16 Sep Final layout and planning of zine and exhibition: 16-30 Sept Printing: 30-7 Oct Mounting/Framing - 7-21 Oct Hanging: 28 Oct Son (on behalf of SBG storytellers)
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Time to submit your ‘final drafts’ for our zine and Feast exhibition.
I’m proposing Tenth and Gibson as a space and they have weekend slots available Friday-Sunday on 28-30 October which is the middle weekend of the Feast Festival. We could have an opening from 4-7pm on the Friday night, perhaps with an artists talk in the same time slot on the following day or Sunday. We can have pay-as-you-go bar facilities and catering (perhaps supplemented with some home made contributions?) on both days. Your friends, family, colleagues will be able to see your work on both days and buy our zine/catalogue (maybe $5 covering printing costs?). These are all ideas to ponder and any suggestions especially re printing/hanging and selling art works are most gratefully received. I’ve seen some inspiring SALA exhibitions in the last few weeks! Meanwhile what do we need to pull the zine and exhibition together? Most of you have already sent Jesse your high res images, or texts of poems/prose. They have laid these out as 2 double spread pages per person. At the end of the zine we propose a ‘contributors’ section that will be a thumbnail ’self-representation’ composed of 9-12 separate photos of ‘bits of you’. Then write 50-100 words about your self-representation. Even if you haven’t submitted anything else for the exhibition or zine, we can include these ‘mini-profiles’ at the end of the catalogue and, in the last panel in the exhibition. If you have submitted something for the exhibition and zine you may like to give each piece a title and offer a few sentences of description. In terms of curating the exhibition we’ve workshopped a kind of ‘journey through stories beyond gender’. Section 1: Journey Begins: a brief description of our social media storytelling journey. Some early experiments. Section 2: Transition and Fluidity: self-realisation, exploration, the best things about being trans and gender diverse, short video about IDaHoT Section 3: Conflict, Hurdles, Haters: some of the sad/angry stories, short video on inappropriate questions… Section 4: Allies and Affirmations: works expressing empathy, gratitude Section 5: We Are: exhibitor’s thumbnails and bio/artist’s statements This last stage in the journey opens up into bar space and a projection of the gallery on the ’Stories Beyond Gender’ site. Seats can be arranged here for the artists’ talks. Any more ideas? Please shout out! Our deadlines are shaping up like this: Finals due within 2 weeks, by 2nd Sept Consolidation of text contributions/bios/titles for printing: 2-16 Sep Final layout and planning of zine and exhibition: 16-30 Sept Printing: 30-7 Oct Mounting/Framing - 7-21 Oct Hanging: 28 Oct We’ll likely need support for all of the above stages, so time to roll up your sleeves ; ) Starting with getting your submissions in to us ASAP. That’s return email me or Jesse or upload directly into our google drive here. Look forward to hearing from you soon, Son (on behalf of SBG storytellers) We had a very lovely gathering this Saturday afternoon past – with some excellent lemon pie and not-so-great GF scones!
We came up with an overarching theme for our exhibition - journey - and decided to prioritise finding a space ASAP.... My ideal would be the weekend before FEAST (14-16th October) so that we can have a Friday night launch and a Sunday afternoon ‘artist’s talk’. Here’s one possibility that I’m investigating: http://www.tenthandgibson.com/studio/ We’ve each agreed to make just one more piece for inclusion in the exhibition (and the zine that we’ll be distributing by then too). If you haven’t created anything yet it’s not too late and you can be included by: making one digital self-image... a montage that is created out of 5-7 individual close-ups that represent your body or you. then write 50-100 words on gender-journey or your self-image. We’ll use these at the end of the zine and exhibition in the ‘contributors’ section. It's time to have one final herculean effort at producing a 'piece' of 'digital representation' at a workshop. I'd like to suggest we have a go at making a personal photo montage... Here's some I made earlier : ) Also - remember the phototaichi we experimented with a while ago? Here's the link to an inspiring site: photomediationsmachine.net/2015/05/22/photographic-tai-chi/
These experiments can look really cool, especially 'blown up'... and could represent everything from self-fragmentation and fluidity... to a collection of my favourite outfits, colours or bits of my body. Further - I'm doing some experiments in printing large photocopies on canvas - might work for the exhibition? There's a ton of DIY videos on YouTube, here's one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkiOEZjwyk8 Finally 'afternoon tea' means cake and scones and I might even make an effort to bake : ) Get in touch if you're able to come along on Saturday 6 August 2-4pm and I'll fill you in with address details... We've been meeting for just over a year now and have lots to share. We have a well-populated website, a zine in progress and a tentative exhibition date to work towards.
The next catch up is scheduled to be on Saturday 16th July 3-6pm between the monthly GenDASA meet up and the launch of the ITDoR DVD launch so there'll be other TGD people hanging around to share our stories with... and maybe we'll inspire some of them to contribute a small creative something to one of our spaces ; ) |
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