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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 WINNER “ThOse are not spirit A WAY fIngers... GIVE B ar rass is the WINNER o f M elis sa r this pic. t Cap tio n submitted fo Bes a take home Melissa will ER! EMAIL LABELMAK THESE ARE SPIRIT FINGERS DYMO unsw.edu.au wit your h k.harris@arc. and you e, for this pic thes bes t cap tio n and ne too! are gold!” could win o 2
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! 4 5
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. 6 6 ment way back in 2010, 7
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 8 9
The 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 10 11
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 12Kirst Ohh, ‘Vivid’ 2012, Digitial work, Heatpress
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 16 Above: Zoë M. Robertson and opp. page: Alexandra Clapham 17
This year COFAtopia is giving over it’s naughty back page to the COFA Student Representative Council (SRC). I OH, FOR ITHE 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 18
Arc @ C O F A D E S I G N ART & R A N T S Gelp your creative ideas take flight h UP TO $500 FOR... • field trips • opening night expenses • transport / travel costs • exhibition invites / event flyers • materials, framing, printing costs • catering for events • equipment hire • document artwork • registration fees for conferences • ANYTHING CREATIVE & EXTRACURRICULAR (ie. not part of your studies) DEADLINE FRIDAY 10 AUGUST 2012 appln forms at arc.unsw.edu.au/cofa or from Arc Office @ COFA, E105 20 only open to currently enrolled COFA students who are Arc members 20
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