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+All the UNSW Artsweek program highlights...
+Meet and Greet COFAs newest collective...
+Hear from your COFA Postgrad PGC Councillor...
A - INSIDE: +All the UNSW Artsweek program highlights +Meet and Greet COFAs newest collective +Hear from your COFA Postgrad PGC Councillor...
CONTENTS                                            EDITORIAL
                        A          CONTENTS                                            EDITORIAL
                                    4 to 5. -                                           COMING TOGETHER-_=|}
                                    interview with 2012
    EDITORS                                                                             This is the theme of Artsweek 2012... so in
                                    artsweek director zeynep
    Kelly Doley
    Penelope Benton                                                                     the spirit this issue of C`topia is all about
    DESIGN
                                    6 to 7. -                                           COFA kids coming together to do great
    Kelly Doley                     all about the artsweek                              stuff + on and off campus.
                                                                                        We hear from Artsweek Coordinator
    Penelope Benton
                                    postsecret exhibition
    CONTRIBUTORS
                                                                                        Zeynep Dilik who gives us insight into her
    Kelly Doley
                                    8 to 9.=
    Penelope Benton                                                                     program whilst Alyse Behringer takes us
    Zeynep Dilek                    WHATS ON
    Alyse Behringer                                                                     through the highs and lows of collecting
    Kate Harris
    Kristian Fuhrer                 10 to 11.                                           strangers confessions for the Artsweek
    Louise Mayhew
    Alexandra Clapham
                                    Meet and Greet:                                     exhibition `Post Secret`;;;
    Zoe Robertson                   the melting point collective                        Read on to hear from the latest COFA
                                                                                        collective `The Melting Point`^ then get
    Jessica Stewart

                                    12 @.
    FRONT COVER IMAGE
                                                                                        some work*life balance tips from your
    “Untitled (wall)”
                                    catching up with the pgc:
    Alexandra Clapham, 2012                                                             COFA Postgrad Councillor on the PGC
                                    louise mayhew
    LOGO DESIGN                                                                         Louise Mayhew...
    Kiera Chevell
                                    16 to 17. THE                                       we return to an old collaboration + the
    PRINTING
    Arc Office @ COFA
                                    Alex and Zoe at mop                                 two 2011 Kudos Coodinators Alex and Zoe
                                                                                        who have come together for a new show at
    THANKS                          18 SRC says: Enviro officer Jess
                                                                                        MOP Projects in August
                                    on half a desk and recycling
    Arc @ UNSW Ltd
                                                                                        Lastly a reminder HALF A DESK a response
                                    19 Kudos Gallery program                            to the building project opens 14 aug...Enjoy!
                                                                                        Love, Arc at COFA xx

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Sally Conwell, Patti Bai,
                                                                                Prutha Girme… They also
                                                                                might be excited about
                                                                                some workshops like Life
                                                                                Model Sketch Workshop
                                                                                or events like Live
                                                                                Installation Event.

                          eek 5, 13 - 17 August. It is a not to be missed es.   What do you study and
    Artsweek is on in Wterally takes over the UNSW and COFA Campus              how do you balance this

    Arts Festival that li eak to the Artsweek 2012 curator Zeynep Dilek         with organizing an arts

    I recently got to sp
                                                                                festival?

    about her plans.. . .                                                       I am a masters student
                                                                                – Public Relations and
                                                                                Advertising and I think the
                                                                                key to success is being
    What is the reason                                                          organised; I set deadlines
    behind this year’s                                                          for every task for Artsweek
    Artsweek theme                                                              as soon as I started
    ‘Coming Together’?                                                          working and put them
                                                                                down on my diary and
    The theme of Artsweek                                                       made sure they don’t clash
    `Coming Together`                                                           with my assignments.
     reflects the cultural
    diversity on campus.                                                        What are your thoughts
    As I am an international                                                    on Fine Arts Students?
    student I wanted to
    capture the idea of                                                         My bachelor’s degree is
    different people from                                                       on Architecture and I did
    different backgrounds                                                       it in a fine arts university!
    expressing themselves                                                       I enjoyed the company of
    through art and sharing                                                     creative people who can
    their experiences with                                                      think out of the box and I
    others.                                                                     chose my friends among
                                                                                that crowd all my life and
    What are some highlights                                                    yes I had purple hair for
    of this years program for                                                   some of my life :) Keep         If you could have any artist in your festival who
    COFA students?                                                              creating and be unique!         would you choose?
    I think COFA students                                                       What plans do you have          Oh, tough question! I have always dreamt about doing
    are going to be excited                                                     next?                           a music festival someday, headliner would be Jack
    to see the exhibitions
                                                                                                                White; I have to confess, I have a thing for him! But in
    (Roundhouse will be my                                                      After Artsweek 2012 I will      terms of an art event/festival I would like to work with
    main exhibition venue).                                                     concentrate on my uni           Hank Willis Thomas, I find his work contemporary and
    Some artists who will be                                                    studies but my aspiration       very relevant to the world we live in. As the world glo-
    exhibiting their work are:                                                  is to be an Events              balizes, cultures are coming together and we all lack
    Edmund Iffland (former                                                      Designer and have my            tolerance for the different one which is a shame, we
    Artsweek coordinator for                                                    own company some day            can learn so much from one another by appreciating
    2010), Shohini Mukerji,                                                     maybe?                          and celebrating differences!
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Alyse Behringer is the           with the 2012 Artsweek        Alyse reports that she has
      COFA Rep on the Student          theme of ‘coming together’    received a fair few secrets
      Development Committee            she thought it seemed a       already, She has read them
      and is also the curator of       perfect fit with the aims     all and says that some are
      PostSecret - an exhibition       of Postsecret. She has        shocking, some are silly
      of other peoples secrets         had the full support of the   and some made her realise
      as part of Artsweek 2012.        Artsweek co-ordinator and     that she shares that secret
                                       successfully secured an       too. Interestingly secrets
      Anyone can anonymously           Arc Student Community         tend to fall into three
      contribute a secret to           and Development Grant to      categories: secrets about
      the project which will be        fund the exhibition, making   relationships, secrets that
      displayed during Artsweek.       the project a reality.        speak of life regrets, and
      Secrets can range from                                         secrets that state
      regrets, a betrayal, desire, a   Postsecret works like this:   inspiring inner ambitions
      confession or a childhood        During the weeks leading      and dreams. The beauty of
      humiliation. One condition-      up to Artsweek students       the Postsecret Exhibition
      it has to be true and you        can submit secrets anony-     is that it highlights the
      have never shared it with        mously, There will be         reality that we are more
      anyone before!!                  Postsecret postboxes          connected to one another
                                       scattered over campus         than we might realise.”
      Alyse is an undergrad in         where students can collect
      a Bachelor of Design @           blank Postsecret postcards    Postsecret opens 6pm,
      COFA with a major in             and submit their Post-        Monday 13 August in the
      textiles, graphics and           secrets. Alyse also           Roundhouse. All the Post-
      applied object design.           recommends to keep an         secrets that are received
                                       eye on the library lawn       by the end of Week 4 will
      Alyse got involved in Arts       over the next couple of       be on display. Check the
      Week because she always          weeks for a situation that    UNSW Postsecret 2012
      wanted to do a UNSW              struck fear into the heart    facebook and website:
      Postsecret event. Though         of Facilities Management!!    unswpostsecret.com for
      she first became aware                                         updates and campus post-
      of the Postsecret move-                                        secret postbox locations.
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WHAT’S ON ON                                                                                                    WHAT’S ON ON
WHAT’S ON ON                          ROCKET Collective and
                                      COFA SRC present
                                                                         6-8 pm
                                                                         COFA Talks
                                                                                                                WHAT’S ON ON
         WEEK 3                       The Thursday Blender Bender!-
                                      Free liquid breakfasts
                                                                         Masculinity and the 21st Century
                                                                         Nick Vickers, Andrew
                                                                                                                                             COFA redevelopment             THU 16 August

         WEEK 3
                                      COFA Common Room,                  Yip, Andrew Starr
                                      Level 1 E Block.                   EG02, E Block COFA.                                                 continues to 11 August
                                                                                                                                             Kudos Gallery                  @COFA
                                                                                                                                             6 Napier St. Paddington        9-9.45am
    MON 30 July                       12-1 pm                            WED 8 August                                                                                       ROCKET Collective and
                                      Meditation.                                                                                                                           COFA SRC present
                                      Meditation will be explored from   @COFA                                                               6-8 pm
    @UNSW                                                                                                                                    COFA Talks                     The Thursday Blender Bender!-
    2-4 pm                            a mindfulness perspective.         1pm                                                                                                Free liquid breakfasts
                                      F408, Level 4 F Block.             Film screening:                                                     Remarking/Remaking Blacktown
    Queer Collective meeting                                                                                                                 where art and life meet        COFA Common Room,
    Room 9.20, Level 9,                                                  Apocolypse Now, Francis

                                                                                                              WEEK 5
                                                                                                                                             Li Wenmin                      Level 1 E Block.
    Chemical Science                  1-2 pm                             Ford Coppola EG02, COFA
                                      YOGA                                                                                                   Abdullah Syed
                                                                                                                                             EG02, E Block COFA.            10am

                                                                                                             ARTSWEEK
    TUE 31 July                       free for Arc members,              3-4pm                                                                                              COFA Fine Arts Soccer Cup
                                      5 bucks otherwise                  Stich n’ Bitch                                                                                     Come battle it out against
                                      E101, Level 1 E Block              Bring your needles                                                  @UNSW
    @COFA                                                                                                                                    12-2pm                         SCA and NAS and win
    11am-12pm                                                            and your gossip                    MON 13 August                                                   back the trophy!
                                      @UNSW                              Common Room                                                         UNSW Bike Club Workshop
    SOCCER                                                                                                                                   Quad Lawn                      Moore Park
    Meet in the Arc Office or meet    1pm                                                                   @UNSW
    us at Moore Park. To join the     Long Lazy Lunch                    4-5pm
                                      Soup and fun times!                Nintendo 64/weekly comps
                                                                                                            1-3pm                            WED 15 August                  12-1 pm
    group you can also find us                                                                              Women’s Collective Meeting                                      Meditation.
    on FB: COFA SOCCER 2012           COFA @KENSO courtyard,             COFA Common Room,                  Womens Room, Blockhouse                                         Meditation will be explored from
                                      behind the roundhouse              Level 1 E Block                                                     @COFA
                                                                                                                                             1pm                            a mindfulness perspective.
    Exhibition at Kudos Gallery:                                                                            2-4 pm                           Film screening: arthouse       F408, Level 4 F Block..
    Science Fictional, Andrew Frost   4-6                                4-7pm                              Queer Collective meeting
                                      Queer Collective meetings          MID WEEK SOCIAL                                                     movies (tba) EG02, COFA
    continues to 4 August                                                                                   Room 9.20, Level 9,                                             1-2 pm
    Kudos Gallery                     Room 9.20, Level 9,                Booze, food and games              Chemical Science                                                YOGA
                                      Chemical Science                   all in the name of fun                                              3-4pm
    6 Napier St. Paddington                                                                                                                  Stich n’ Bitch                 free for Arc members,
                                                                         Common Room                        4-5 pm                                                          5 bucks otherwise
                                                                                                                                             Bring your needles
    6-8 pm                                                                                                  Lenslife Exhibition opening      and your gossip                E101, Level 1 E Block
    COFA Talks                                                           THU 9 August                       Roundhouse                       Common Room
    Art to the People

                                           WEEK 4
                                                                                                                                                                            4.30pm
    Jackie Dunn, (Manly AG) John                                         @COFA                              6.30pm                                                          Pop-up concert by SOAP
                                                                         9-9.45am                                                            4-5pm
    Kirkman (Penrith Performing                                                                             Postsecret Exhibition opening    HOT TIPS                       COFA Common Room

                                           WEEK 4
    & Vis Arts), Michael Rolfe                                           ROCKET Collective and              Roundhouse
                                                                         COFA SRC present                                                    Confused about how to
    EG02, E Block COFA.                                                                                                                      approach galleries?            @UNSW
                                                                         The Thursday Blender Bender!-      8-9.30pm                                                        5pm
                                                                         Free liquid breakfasts                                              Hear from co-director of
    WED 1 August                      MON 6 August                                                          Opening Night Artsweek Drinks    MOP Projects George Adams      UNSWeetened Liter-
                                                                         COFA Common Room,                  Whitehouse                                                      ary Journal Launch
                                                                         Level 1 E Block.                                                    COFA Common Room,
    @COFA                             @UNSW                                                                                                  Level 1 E Block                UNSW Bookshop
    1pm                               1-3pm                                                                 @COFA
    Film screening: Deerhunter,       Women’s Collective Meeting         12-1 pm                            2-3 pm                                                          4-6 pm
                                                                         Meditation.                                                         4-7pm
    Michael Cimino EG02, COFA         Womens Room, Blockhouse                                               Squiggle Collective              SRC TAKE OVER THE              Queer Collective meetings
                                                                         Meditation will be explored from   Come and doodle!                                                Room 9.20, Level 9,
                                                                         a mindfulness perspective.                                          MID WEEK SOCIAL
    3-4pm                             2-4 pm                                                                COFA Common Room                 Booze, food and games          Chemical Science
    Stich n’ Bitch                    Queer Collective meeting           F408, Level 4 F Block.
                                                                                                                                             all in the name of fun
    Bring your needles                Room 9.20, Level 9,                                                   2.30-3.30 pm                     Common Room                    7.30pm
    and your gossip                   Chemical Science                   1-2 pm                             NUTS Performance                                                Film Festival
    Common Room                                                          YOGA                               COFA Common Room                                                Whitehouse
                                                                         free for Arc members,                                               @UNSW
                                      TUE 7 August                                                                                           1-3pm
    4-5pm                                                                5 bucks otherwise                  TUE 14 August                                                   8pm
                                                                         E101, Level 1 E Block                                               Culture Club craft tent
    Nintendo 64/weekly comps          @COFA                                                                                                  Main Walkway UNSW              Artsweek Closing Party
    COFA Common Room,                 11am-12pm                                                             @COFA                                                           Roundhouse
    Level 1 E Block                   SOCCER                             @UNSW                              11am-12pm
                                                                         2-4 Sketch Club                                                     2.30
                                      Meet in the Arc Office or meet                                                                         Sketch Club Life Drawing
    4-7pm                             us at Moore Park. To join the      Venue tba                          SOCCER                           Venue TBC
    MID WEEK SOCIAL                   group you can also find us on                                         Meet in the Arc Office or meet
    Booze, food and games             FB: COFA SOCCER 2012               4-6                                us at Moore Park. To join the
                                                                         Queer Collective meetings                                           6.30 pm
    all in the name of fun                                                                                  group you can also find us on    Jazz and Soup
    Common Room                       Exhibition at Kudos Gallery:       Room 9.20, Level 9,                FB: COFA SOCCER 2012
                                                                         Chemical Science                                                    Club Bar, Roundhouse
                                      For the Love of Prints!
    THU 2 August                      Price Charming Print Collective                                       Exhibition at Kudos Gallery:     7.30pm
                                      continues to 5 August              FRI 10 August                      Half a Desk
                                                                         ADG and Kudos App’s Due                                             Film Festival Comp
    @COFA                             Kudos Gallery                                                         SRC responds to the lack         winners screening
    9-9.45am                          6 Napier St. Paddington            forms at arc.unsw.edu.au/cofa      of studio space due to the       Roundhouse
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 MELTING POINT COLLECTIVE                                                                What can we expect from the Melting point Collective?

 The Melting Point Collective (MPC) is a community of emerging artists                   In the near future, we will be publishing regular newsletters with the intention
 studying at COFA and working within the disciplines of Jewellery and                    of creating a greater awareness of the possibilities of working with Jewellery
 Ceramics. MPC acts as a space for critical discussion, a networking forum, and          and Ceramics as Fine Art mediums, as well as the processes involved, in both
                                                                                         material and conceptual sense. As longer term goals, we would like to collate
 a platform for increased visibility in the wider community of the arts. Made up
                                                                                         a catalogue that includes and promotes the work of emerging Jewellers and
 of six, two members Kate Harris and Kristian Fuhrer recently got down to the            Ceramicists, which would also potentially be linked to an exhibition in the early
 nitty gritty on what it is all about...                                                 stages of next year.

 Why did the Melting Point
 Collective started?           What does the Collective hope to achieve?

 Although there are several    The central function of the Melting Point Collective
 spaces in and around          is to bring together students working in the
 Sydney that are dedicated     Jewellery and Ceramics mediums and create a
 to exhibiting and             networking space to promote critical discussion, and
 promoting artists and         also to gain increased exposure for the mediums we
 designers working in the      work with. Hopefully, this will not only be beneficial
 Jewellery and Ceramics        to us, but also to the wider community, especially
 mediums, they are largely     those who are considering pursuing Jewellery or
 concerned with more           Ceramics as a discipline.
 established practitioners,
 which leaves a daunting
 gap for the emerging
 artist. So, the collective
 was started by a group
 of COFA Bachelor of Fine
 Art students primarily as
 a response to the lack of
 exposure, within a Fine Art
 context, associated with
 emerging artists working
 within these more craft
 based disciplines. Both
 Jewellery and Ceramics,                                                                         How can we get involved?
 being smaller departments
 at the College, can also                                                                        As a collective we hold regular meetings in the Arc Common Room at
                                                                                                 COFA, where we discuss our work and also compile the next newsletter.
 leave the students feeling
                                                                                                 If you would like to be involved you can email us at
 somewhat isolated, which                                                                        meltingpointcollective@gmail.com and let us know. We would love to hear
 is why we felt it was                                                                           from any other students and artists, at any level and from any discipline.
 important to establish an-
 other channel of
 communication.
                                                                                        Opp page: Kristian Fuhrer, What We’ve Done, clay 2012.
                                                                                        This page: Judith Torzillo, Knock On Wood, wood and brass
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Catching up with theMPGC     :
                     ay h ew
                                                            Louise                                          Postgraduate Council
                                                                                                           ELECTION
Louise Mayhew is a postgrad-
student in the School of Art
History and Art Education.
Her research is on the history
of women-only art collectives
and collaborations in
Australia c.1970 – 2010. She’s

                                                                                                           NOTICE
also a member of the PGC.

Tell us a bit about the PGC…
The PGC, or Postgraduate
Council, is the arm of Arc that
caters specifically for post-
graduate students. We put on
events for postgrads, to meet,
socialize and learn. We also

                                                                                                           for Twenty Twelve
act as advocates for post-
grads on issues that affect
us such as access to study
spaces and equipment, advice
supervisor relationships and        I love the people I’ve met through     groups, and involved in the
childcare on campus.                the PGC. Postgraduate study            PGC. Did I mention I was
                                    can be lonely and trying so its        also having fun with online
What is your role on the            great to have a strong network of      dating? It was far too much
PGC?

                                                                                                             NOMINATIONS OPEN
                                    people who know exactly what           and my uni work suffered. I
I’m the COFA Councilor which        you’re going through socially,         had a number of talks with
means I bring the background        financially, intellectually .          my supervisor, my bosses
and experiences of a COFA

                                                                                                            MON 13 AUG 2012
                                                                           and my family and decided
student to the council. I try to    How did you get involved?              to scale back my
ensure the events and issues        When I started my PhD I                commitments.
we organize for postgrads are       lamented the lack of community
relevant to my COFA peers. I        and networking opportunities           Hot tips for future
also tease the rest of the PGC      available for postgrad students.       nominees?
for their cluelessness on what
most art students do—a lot
                                    I came across the PGC by
                                    chance—while procrastinating on
                                                                           Come along to PGC events,
                                                                           there are plenty!. Have a                                     CLOSE 4PM FRI 24 AUG 2012
more than painting!                 Facebook one day—and signed            cider with Louise—that’s
                                    up immediately. Luckily for me         me!— at the Whitehouse
What sort of time                   the female COFA Councillor             to meet myself, the other                                               POSITIONS TO BE ELECTED
commitment is your role?            position was available.                Councillors and Office
We meet once a month to                                                                                    OFFICERS:
                                                                           Bearers and to get a feel for
hear reports from Office              What about the balance               what the PGC does. Find out     • PGC President                                                        • Events Officer
Bearers (the ones who get             between your research & PGC          about upcoming events at        • Vice President                                                       • International Students Officer
paid) and discuss upcoming            duties?                              facebook.com/unswpgc            • Coursework Students Officer                                            (only PG international students may stand and vote for this position)

events and issues. Many of            Getting the work/research/                                             (only PG coursework students may stand and vote for this position)   • Research Students Officer
us are based on campus, so            life balance is pretty tricky and    The PGC needs peeps who         • Equity Officer                                                         (only PG research students may stand and vote for this position)        13
we also see each other on a           it took me a few semesters to        genuinely love uni life; who
frequent basis, and we use            get it right. Last semester I was:   are enthusiastic as well as
email and an online discussion        working part time for the peak       dedicated, practical and
                                                                                                           NOMINATION FORMS ARE AVAILABLE
forum to read and comment             academic organisation in our         hard-working. For more info
on each other’s work.                 field—the Art Association of         on the elections visit:
                                      Australia and New Zealand—           arc.unsw.edu.au/advice-         online at arc.unsw.edu.au or at Arc reception Blockhouse
What is your favorite thing           tutoring, representing my study      representation/
about being on the PGC?               space,  activeposter
                                                     in two discussion     postgraduate-council
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tHe =
                                                                                             series of exhibitions by
                                               - Alex and zoe                                gallery Directors.

                                             KUDOS COORDS COME                               Can you tell us about
                                            BACK TOGETHER AT MOP                             your work in “The” and
                                                                                             how does it relate to
                                                                                             Kudos Gallery.

Alexandra Clapham and Zoë M. Robertson came together to job-share the role of                A: It’s because of Kudos
Kudos Gallery Coordinator last year. Both coming to us as SPI majors, their approach         that I am making the work
to Kudos was as experimental as their individual practices considering perspectives          I do now. I’ve always had
on space and conceptual theories respectively. This saw an exciting shift emerge in          an interest in the qualities
the Kudos Gallery Management Committee and the exhibition program as the gallery             of space, but since
opened to unfinished projects and critical dialogue.                                         working at Kudos I’ve
                                                                                             been able to hone in on
Opening at MOP this week is “The” - their third process-based exhibition, described as       my interests and skills
the holy ghost of their working relationship as directors of Kudos Gallery (Zoë left early   through helping people
this year to work on Honours at SCA). They say they mean to hearken their past works         install and bringing shows
and association with tandem sculptures - visually similar by appearing deconstructed         together that consider
and unfinished - whilst having very different ideas about what that means, due to Alex's     the work in relation to the
interest in mathematic clarity and Zoë's penchant for obfuscation.                           space, it’s holistic. My own
                                                                                             practice, and the work
                                                                                             in this show considers
                                                                                             hypothetical space within
Why did you ‘come                                                                            geometrical forms. I’m
together’ to take on the                                                                     interested in the
role of Kudos Gallery                                                                        endlessness that space
Coordinator?                                                                                 and geometry create, and
                                                                                             how people enter and
A: Zoë and I come from                                                                       respond to the work.
different points of view in
everything we have worked                                                                    Z: The works displayed on      most extreme and obscene nature as an attempt to point
on, over time we have come                                                                   the walls are a                out the standardisation that comes with acts of bureau-
to realise our individual                                                                    retrospective of the           cratic elucidation, where palatable proposals predict the
approaches are quite                                                                         proposals I have               work, and there is no longer any space for difference.
complimentary. My interests                                                                  written over the years.        Alexandra Clapham was the first person to ever give my
lie in space and potentials                                                                  I have long intended to        work space in an exhibition, after years of rejection. I chose
with space and Zoë’s in                                                                      display this work as the       to display this work alongside hers to honour her for the
writing and conceptual                                                                       act of proposal writing is     patience and tolerance that civilised me and made me feel
work. We felt this would                                                                     now a necessity for artists    safe in a world I had always felt outside. The same attitude
bring something more to                                                                      as it is the only way to be    brought so many others to Kudos Gallery during our
Kudos than what one                                                                          given exhibition space.        tenure, making it a place where people could feel support-
person alone could do in                                                                     Unfortunately the process      ed in their experiments no matter how mad or haphazard.
this position.                                                                               can be so mechanical and
                                                                                             outcome-based that it
How did your exhibition at                                                                   often leads to
MOP come about?                                                                              writing of the least
                                                                                             creative order. My early       “The” opens this Thursday 2 August at MOP,
We were invited by Ron and                                                                   frustrations often lead to     2/39 Abercrombie St. Chippendale and continues
George as part of their                                                                      writing proposals of the       to Sunday 19 August. mop.com.au
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This year COFAtopia is giving over it’s naughty back
                                       page to the COFA Student Representative Council (SRC).
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                                                                                                    EXIST,    INSIST
                                                                                                  Alexander PouletLOVE
                                                                                                    OF PRINTS!
                                       The SRC @COFA are a bunch of students who represent YOU!
                                       They are there to campaign for your needs to
                                                                                                  insert a short sentence about exhibition here
                                       the larger university body as well as
                                                                                                     Rebecca Geddes, Helen Daley, Angela Butler,
                                       make sure your student voice is heard
                                                                                                     Anna Russell, Helen Wardle, Jess Bradford,
                                       when it comes to national affairs.
                                                                                                     Jessica Hoddkinson, Max Gosling, David Quoy,
                                                                                                     Kate Landau, Verity Wells and more!
                                       In this issue we hear from
                                       SRC @ COFA Enviroment Officer                              Opens    5-7pm Tuesday
                                                                                                    A celebration         21 February
                                                                                                                  of the diversity of printmaking from
                                       Jessica Stewart. If you want to                              The Prints
                                                                                                  Closes         Charming
                                                                                                           Saturday 3 March Collective:
                                                                                                                             2012        a printmaking

              A Y S !                  get involved in the conversation,
                                       friend them on FB at COFA Src.
                                                                                                    studio and education space in Newtown facilitating
                                                                                                    experimentation and collaboration.

            S                                                                                     KUDOS
                                                                                                   Opens
                                                                                                  6 Napier
                                                                                                          GALLERY
                                                                                                         5-7pm Tuesday 7 August
                                                                                                    Closes St Paddington  NSW 2021
                                                                                                              Saturday 11 August 2012
                                                                                                  11am-6pm Wed to Fri, 11am-4pm Sat
                                                                                                  T 02 9326 0034
                                                                                                  E kudos@arc.unsw.edu.au
                                                                                                  W arc.unsw.edu.au/kudos
                                             Hello!
                                                                                                    HALF A DESK
                                                                                                  Kudos Gallery is run by COFA students and
                                                                                                  funded by Arc @ UNSW Limited
                                                                                                    supported by the SRC @ COFA
                          My name is Jess and I’m the current COFA SRC
                 Enviro Officer. Here is some info on a few awesome things:                         A response to reduced studio space for students
                                                                                                    throughout the COFA Building Project

                       Half a Desk is an exhibition the COFA SRC have curated                       Opens              5-7pm Tuesday 14 August
                  in response to the lack of studio facilities and resources                        Panel discussion   4-5:30pm Thursday 16 August
              provided to students during the COFA Redevelopment Project.                           Closes             Saturday 18 August 2012
           The exhibition, featuring works by 50 students opens at Kudos Gallery
                       5-7pm Tuesday 14 August as part of Artsweek.

         We are also hosting a panel discussion about the exhibition and the COFA                   SATTELITE
           Redevelopment Project at Kudos 4-5.30pm on Thursday 16 August.
                                      ALL WELCOME!                                                  GARDEN
                                                                                                    Dylan Quirk

         THERE IS RECYCLING ON CAMPUS! At every photocopier there is a paper                        Satellite Garden explores fictitious elements of
                                                                                                    a modernist wasteland.       While the aggregation
     recycling bin next to it. There is also a bin in the common room near the Arc office,          of interrelated earth­objects give meaning to the
                   as well as a big recycling skip at the bottom of F block.                        physical parameters of form, speculative elements
                                                                                                    are realized when filtered through narrative, as a
                                                                                                    celebration of our current space­time coordinates.
              WHAT CAN YOU PUT INTO YOUR RECYCLING BIN AT HOME?
          Not really sure about what you can and can’t put in the recycling bin?                    Opens     5-7pm Tuesday 21 August
                 Did you know that it changes from council from council?                            Closes    Saturday 25 August 2012
      Here’s a cool website that tells you what your council accepts in the yellow bin!
          www.irecycle.com.au/recycle_tips_database_adults.php?council=37

                  Have anything to say to us about enviro stuff/any uni stuff at all?
                 email us on cofasrc@gmail.com or chat to us on Facebook!
                  www.facebook.com/COFAstudentrepresentativecouncil

                                           Love Jess                                              KUDOS GALLERY
                                                                                                  6 Napier St Paddington NSW 2021
                                                                                                  11am-6pm Wed to Fri, 11am-4pm Sat
                                                                                                  T 02 9326 0034
                                                                                                  E kudos@arc.unsw.edu.au
                                                                                                  W arc.unsw.edu.au/kudos                                                  19
                                                                                                  Kudos Gallery is run by COFA students and funded by Arc @ UNSW Limited
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 UP TO $500 FOR...
 •    field trips
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 •    transport / travel costs
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 •    materials, framing, printing costs
 •    catering for events
 •    equipment hire
 •    document artwork
 •    registration fees for conferences
 •    ANYTHING CREATIVE & EXTRACURRICULAR
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