LEI LEI KUNG
14. MARCH 2019 – 31. MARCH 2019
Category: EXHIBITIONS
I’M NOT THERE
SAM PETERSEN Opening: 6:00 – 8:00pm, Wednesday, 29th November, 2017 Exhibition: 30th November – 16th December, 2017 I thought about waiting outside of TCB, but so sick of waiting outside of things. So probably won’t see me at all. I tend to find the humour and sadness of things. My work stems from the self…
LOSS ADJUSTMENT
PAT FOSTER AND JEN BEREAN Opening: 6:00 – 8:00pm, Wednesday, 29th November, 2017 Exhibition: 30th November – 16th December, 2017 Foster & Berean’s upcoming exhibition, Loss Adjustment, focuses upon what is lost and what is gained through the transference of ideas across varied communication methods. Pat Foster (born 1981 in Launceston, Australia) and Jen Berean…
FIONA MACDONALD: A CONCEPTUAL RETROSPECTIVE
EXHIBITION: Thursday – Saturday 2-18 November “For Fiona’s show at West Space last year called Opening Act (2016), my role was to perform the curator. As curator I pretended to listen to an artist who was pretending to talk deeply about an artwork (ie: moving their lips without saying anything). In turn I feigned engagement,…
Time is mines
TAPE LAUNCH Organised by Christopher L G Hill October 14, 12–6pm Tape launch with performances at the gallery. Image: Christopher LG Hill TCB art inc. acknowledges the people of the Kulin Nations as the traditional custodians of the land, recognising their connection to land, waters and community, and the fact that Indigenous…
THE WORLD IS WAITING FOR THE SUNRISE
Whitney Claflin, Alethea Everard, Christopher LG Hill, Casey Jeffrey, Jasper Jordan-Lang, Helen Johnson, Josey Kidd Crowe, Lucina Lane, Louis Mason, Anne-Marie May, Kate Meakin, Adelle Mills, Daniel Peter Petersen, Lisa Radford, Nellie Reinhard, Kieren Seymour, Esther Stewart, Kalinda Vary. Curated by Lucina Lane Exhibition: October 11 – October 28 We’re people, moving in rows…
SANS DIRECTION
BADRA AJI (Indonesia) Exhibition: 20 September – October 7, 2017 The artist (Badra Aji) recounts his failure to navigate through a sense of displacement. As he returns to the city where he lived for sixteen years, he realises that it isn’t homesickness he feels. One could not possibly feel homesick before ‘home’ is properly located. As he continues…
PISSING
SANJA PAHOKI Exhibition: 20 September – October 7, 2017 This exhibition is about pissing. It was conceived in response to the smell of urine in the alleyways of Melbourne. TCB Art Inc. is located in such a place. The downstairs entrance to the gallery sometimes reeks of piss, especially in summer in the stinking heat. If art is a form…
SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THERE AND THEN, I AM HERE
HEIDI HOLMES Exhibition: 30 August – September 16, 2017 Somewhere between there and then, I am here. I’ve been waiting for a very long time to get there and I will wait longer. Here doesn’t feel like there. I can feel there from here. Then, I thought about there. Here, I thought about there. When…
THE MOMENT I UNDERSTAND AN IDEA ITS MINE
SIMON MCGLINN Exhibition: 30 August – September 16, 2017 As free as an artist. I am regularly misguided to what I hold is mine and what could be someone else’s. It seems as though taking an action of sorts begins with a permission that is either known or is not known to you. ‘The moment…
FISHES OF AUSTRALIA (2016 – 17)
KARA BALDWIN Exhibition: 9 August – August 26, 2017 Fishes of Australia is a large scale pictorial list of tropical fish considered commercially important to Australia. Both a tongue and cheek jab at the decorative imagery portrayed in fish and chipperys nationwide, and a question of capitalist venture; how fish become a currency in a…
No Direction Home
STELLA CORKERY Exhibition: 9 August – August 26, 2017 Musical waves float in the sky. A song of summer cones and gold tops. A letter to a friend is scrawled into my thoughts. Jitters fly. The remnants swarm in the base of a bag, suffocated by heat, dust, driving. Wading through the thick pile of…
Love is the Desire to be Immobile
NICK RYRIE Exhibition: 19 July – August 5, 2017 I always wondered what its like to ride the bus on the freeway. Nick Ryrie is from Melbourne. Image: Nick Ryrie These exhibitions are part of TCB’s Prolegomenon series supported by the City of Melbourne’s Arts Grants Program, Creative Victoria and Hells Kitchen, which encourages intergenerational exchange between…
A WOMAN ALONE
JESSICA MCEHINNEY Exhibition: 19 July – August 5, 2017 A Woman Alone features two new video works. A Woman Alone 1: reinterpretation of a monologue from the play A Woman Alone (1991) by Franca Rame and Dario Fo (WOMAN: “all on my own, full of bitter thoughts and bitter booze!”). Filmed on a constructed stage…
A Steady Backbeat
LUCRECCIA QUINTANILLA Aus/El Salvador/US Exhibition: 28 June – July 15, 2017 “When I was a child I believed stars were tiny windows into light. Like a mantle, the night was pierced to let the light on the other side come through.” Banff Canada, 2017 This work was partly developed while I found myself in the…
Stages
GEORGINA CUE Exhibition: 28 June – July 15, 2017 Georgina Cue’s new work reflects her ongoing interest in theatrical staging and narrative. Referencing Dada film, constructivist theatre and graffiti culture, Georgina Cue has used DIY materials such as cardboard and spray paint to create large-scale stages in a suburban garage. These theatrical sets then became…
WE KISS
BRENNAN OLVER Exhibition: 7 June – June 24, 2017 Brennan is an artist from Melbourne. They have shown a few times around Australia and other cities including Reykjavik where they did a residency in 2016. Bren’s currently completing their BFA honours at RMIT. Image: Brennan Olver | Digital Photograph, 2017 These exhibitions are part of…
I CAN SEE RUSSIA FROM HERE
Gordon Bennett Eugene Carchesio Chris Carmody Sam Cranstoun Alex Hobba Peter Kennedy Nigel Lendon John Nixon Stuart Ringholt Meg Stoios Jemima Wyman Curated by Chelsea Hopper Exhibition: 7 June – June 24, 2017 I Can See Russia From Here includes the works of eleven Australian artists who reference, are influenced by, or engage a “Russian…
Rhyming Stance
RAFAELLA MCDONALD Exhibition: 17 May – June 3, 2017 I am thinking about joy as something that lasts and something that fades like stained stoneware and hard boiled candy. My casual worker body holding onto a pair of pants. I remember things aren’t fixed, this is just a pause in the life span of the…
870
JANET BURCHILL & JENNIFER MCCAMLEY Exhibition: 17 May – June 3, 2017 870 will present an ensemble of three works: a new wall drawing, the 2007 film screen painting Brutopia and the 24/7 Shield from 2015. The wall work is dedicated to the early political writings of Simone Weil. Weil was a singular 20th century…
blank verse
AMY PARKER Exhibition: 26 April – May 13, 2017 Amy Parker is an artist living and working in Melbourne. Recent exhibitions include “A gift means a gap between two people,” Bus Projects and “You’ve Been Here Before” at Visual Bulk in Hobart, both with Ellen Fairbairn and Amber Wright, and “To wound an Autumnal City,” at Punk…
All Arms
BRIAN FUATA Exhibition: 26 April – May 13, 2017 (email amended for glamour) April 10, 2017 “Dear LP My name is Brian Fuata. I’m a 38yr old, faggot, Samoan artist based in Sydney (originally from Brisbane) working in the improvisation of text and performance. I’m currently sick at the moment. Heaped in bed with…
Jane’s Salvation (Paterson’s Curse)
THEA JONES Exhibition: 5 April – April 22, 2017 Jane’s salvation and Paterson’s curse are both colloquial names for Echium plantagineum, an invasive species introduced to Australia in the 1800’s. It’s said that the seeds were introduced by Jane Paterson in an attempt to beautify her garden near Albury, NSW. The weed has now…
Your Grace
ARCHIE MOORE Exhibition: 5 April – April 22, 2017 Etiquette is a set of rules that govern the expectations of social behaviour which also prescribes and restricts the ways in which people interact with each other depending on if your inside or outside that group or class of people. Etiquette is dependent on culture; what…
Planned Obsolescence
LIAM OSBORNE 17.03.2017 – 01.04.2017 Life is planned obsolescence We play the games but don’t learn the lessons Cracks in the pavement let in water Building bridges out of bricks and mortar Liam Osborne (b.1991) is a Melbourne based artist. He graduated Fine Arts Honours from the Victorian College of the Arts 2016. He has…
June For The Memory
A CONSTRUCTED WORLD 17.03.2017 – 01.04.2017 I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you —Nobody —too? Then there’s a pair of us! Don’t tell! they’d banish us —you know! How dreary —to be —Somebody! How public —like a Frog— To tell your name —the livelong June— To an admiring Bog! Emily Dickinson It was on a…
LOOSEN
TCB PERFORMANCE PROGRAM – LOOSEN is a week-long program dedicated to development and presentation of performance based practices in Melbourne. From WEDNESDAY 8TH MARCH – SATURDAY 11TH MARCH TCB gallery will host an experimental day program and a curated night program: scroll down for compressed and expanded program information & event times ——————————————————————————GALLERY…