Campbelltown Arts Centre SiteLab Minto 2011

This October saw the second year of SiteLab, an offsite research and development laboratory conceived by Campbelltown Art Centre’s Live Curator, Rosie Dennis. Over the period of three weeks, from 10-28 October, 11 artists were given keys to their own shop in Minto Mall, which apart from a small handful of businesses, is pretty much abandoned. Throughout the three weeks …

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Excursion # 4: Žižek!

  If you missed seeing Slavoj Žižek speak at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas last week in Sydney or you saw him and still want more, Field Theory will be hosting a private screening of Žižek  on Saturday October 15 at 7pm. Zizek! is a feature documentary exploring the eccentric personality and esoteric work of …

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Open Engagement 2011 – Portland, Oregon

Dudes, Last weekend I went to Open Engagement in Portland Oregon USA. The Open Engagement conference is an initiative of Portland State University’s Art and Social Practice MFA concentration. Directed and founded by Jen Delos Reyes and planned in conjunction with Harrell Fletcher and the Art and Social Practice students, this year’s conference features internationally …

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