SUFF SYMPOSIA

SYDNEY COLLEGE OF THE ARTS
TUES 16 - FRIDAY 19 SEPT

SUFF presents a series of free and interesting artist / filmmaker talks at Sydney College of the Arts (Balmain Rd, Rozelle) in September.
RSVP to rsvp@suff.com.au to reserve your place or see you there.

Richard Wolstencroft, filmmaker (Bloodlust, Pearls Before Swine), writer and Melbourne Underground Film Festival founder is well versed in counter/alternative culture and will hold an Indie film cult meeting and channel all sorts of issues in a one-hour harangue. Dealing with Indie Oz cinema, Ozploitation, censorship, transgression, running a festival, the poor state of the local Industry and the need for a new political and aggressive style of film making in Australia. Plus preview the first 20 mins of his new feature, the Fitzgerald adaptation of The Beautiful and Damned.

WED 17 SEPT | Jay Katz and Miss Death | 1-2pm
Synchromysticism and the decoding of mainstream Hollywood cinema.

The Synchromystic movement has reinterpreted the modern blockbuster seeing meaningful coincidence in even its most mundane fair and coating it with mystical or esoteric significance. Is Hollywood alerting us to the end of civilisation as we know it? Can these underground concepts tell more about our leisure time indulgences than we dared to ever think possible? Utilising a pastiche of film excepts; Jay Katz and Miss Death will expose the hidden meaning behind the spew that is Tinseltown. The end is nigh and they are laughing hysterically at us every time we purchase a ticket. Be warned you will never watch a movie the same way again. I think, therefore I am, so f##k off. Mu Meson Archives 2008.

THU 18 SEPT | John Conomos | 1-2pm
Mutant Media: Cinema, Video Art and New Media

Conomos is a media artist, critic, and theorist. His art practice cuts across video, new media, installation, performance and radiophonic art and deals with autobiography, identity, memory, post-colonialism, and the “in-between” links between cinema, literature and the visual arts. A prolific writer, his recent book Mutant Media collects his essays from over a 20-year period. John will discuss issues arising from Mutant Media, illustrated with clips.

fri 19 SEPT | GEORGE GITTOES | 2 - 2.30pm

George Gittoes will give a captivating and insightful talk on his recent 6 months of working out of locations in Pakistan and his far reaching and unique film and artistic practice. *

Please join us for a free BBQ and TITAN beers after George’s talk.

SYDNEY COLLEGE OF THE ARTS
Gallery opening:
MONDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 6-9pm
runs through till SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2008

GALLERY HOURS: Tues - Fri 11am - 5pm
and Saturday 11am - 4pm

Curated by Jenny Brown

Exhibition opened by: John Cheeseman - Director Blacktown Arts Centre.

In 1976 in New York, Franklin Furnace Archive Inc. began as an archive of artist books, and soon after a gallery for exhibitions and installations, a performance space, and a publisher. Artists who showed and/or performed at Franklin Furnace in the early years of their careers who later achieved widespread recognition are notable as well as the established artists with their roots in the 1960s, Fluxus and the Judson Church Dance Theatre. The exhibition displays the graphic documents and videos of performance art from the Franklin Furnace / Museum of Modern Art collection.
Video works include those by Patty Chang, Coco Fusco, Annie Sprinkle, Yvette Helin, William Pope L, Matt Mullican, Nigel Rolfe and William Wegman.

HISTORY OF DISAPPEARANCE, Franklin Furnace’s 30th anniversary exhibition, organised in collaboration with the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK, circulated by Franklin Furnace and lent by Museum MAN, Director Adam Nankervis.

SYDNEY COLLEGE OF THE ARTS
Balmain Rd, Rozelle. Talks are held in the lecture theatre and exhibition will be held in the auditorium. Signs will be clearly posted at the college with directions on how to find these events.
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