Dan Bourke

Perth’s Cool Change reflects on sharing & receiving knowledge in book form at the Folding Together group exhibition, Mar 1 – 23

27 February 2019

The Folding Together group exhibition is on at Perth’s Cool Change Contemporary, opening March 1 and running to March 23.

Featuring work by the likes of Dan Bourke & Clare WohlnickAnna Dunnill, Gabby Loo, Ben Rodin and Connor Xia, among others, the show is a celebration of the diverse independent publishing pursuits of artists who share a connection to Perth and Western Australia. The temporary library and reading space in Gallery 1 (Gallery 2 will feature Marisa Georgiou‘s solo exhibition) gives visitors the chance to encounter books by Leonie BrialeySophie Durand and Janet Carter, as part of the “reflexive retrospective on the act of sharing and receiving knowledge.”

AQNB editor Steph Kretowicz also contributes her novel, Somewhere I’ve Never Been, whose accompanying seven-part radio series — produced with artist and sound designer Kimmo Modig — is now available to hear in full (below).

See the Cool Change Contemporary website for details.**

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Status Effect Episode #01 now streaming

26 November 2015

Episode #01 of quarterly podcast Status Effect is now streaming on Soundcloud, as part of a programme commissioning new long form audio pieces by artists, curators, arts writers and arts workers, running from November, 2015 to January, 2016.

Focussing on social structures within the contemporary art world, the podcast aims to explore how these collective environments are composed and navigated, and as such is interested in topics surrounding subjectivity, reprioritising, diplomacy, protocol, social anxiety, the possibility for care and empathy, social mobility and labour.

Produced by Andrew Varano, the first episode features contributions from Francis Russell, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Dan Bourke & Gemma Weston and George Egerton-Warburton, as well as music from Perth, Australia-based band Erasers.

See the Status Effect website for details. **

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