23.03.2016 – 09.04.2016 Janenne Eaton time is impossible to fully value – the most comprehensive fence(s) ever erected in Australia: the act of colonisation “the natives were well pleased with our people until they began clearing the ground at which they wanted us to be gone.” – William Bradley, First lieutenant on the First Fleet…
Category: EXHIBITIONS
Alien Antique
03.03.2016 – 19.03.2016 Sean Peoples “Allow me to describe a most marvelous phenomenon as witnessed by myself and family on Wednesday evening from half past 6 o’clock until about 8 o’clock. I was sitting at the time at my back door… …through a rift or opening in the trees planted in the street in which…
LENTO VIOLENTO
03.03.2016 – 19.03.2016 Spencer Lai LENTO VIOLENTO (translated from Italian as ‘SLOW AND VIOLENT’), is a subtype of Hardcore and Electronic Dance Music, generally produced between the speeds of 70 and 120 BPM. This substyle of music incorporates a hard bass kickback, a hangover from Techno style and a placeholder for Hardstyle subset. The vocals…
MILE X/SORRENTO
11.02.2016 – 27.02.2016 John Dent & Jackson Slattery
iambic pentameter
11.02.2016 – 27.02.2016 Eliza Dyball
Zero to Hero
20.01.2016 – 06.02.2016 Nick Austin | Patrick Lundberg Curated by Chloe Geoghegan Opening the 2016 TCB program, Zero to Hero takes over both spaces with new work by New Zealand artists Patrick Lundberg and Nick Austin. Zero to Hero addresses the individual practices of Patrick Lundberg and Nick Austin as continuously intersecting at certain points…
PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY, FILM
02.12.2015 – 19.12.2015 Dirk de Bruyn | Anna Higgins| Beth Caird | Luigi Fusinato This exhibition expands upon the history, approaches of experimental film and image making. Through speculative and abstract approaches the artists appropriate images to deal with trauma, confusion and nostalgia. The artists in this exhibition use personal imagery to demonstrate abstract ideals and idiosyncratic perspectives….
1/60 sec; f/5.0
02.12.2015 – 19.12.2015 Aaron Christopher Rees 1/60 sec; f/5.0 is a site-specific revisualization of space through photographic and software technologies. The world is encountered through the black mirror, unfolding to reveal the uncanny horror occurring as machines begins to see the world (be)for us. Video is a new human vision; it marks the end of…
Daily life of actions
11.11.2015 – 28.11.2015 Tim Price | Jessie Boylan Painter Tim Price and photographer Jessie Boylan come together for Daily life of actions – in this investigation into environmental activist communities in Australia. Price’s paintings of activism and the daily life of actions -or actions of daily life- are like a fantasy world; everything is highly…
Sundries
11.11.2015 – 28.11.2015 Alice McIntosh | Lorilee Yang Sundries is an exhibition by Alice McIntosh and Lorilee Yang that examines how we create when there is already so much in the world. In the midst of the nonsense and noise that one is faced with on an everyday basis we find ways of digesting and…
BLACK SQUARE – 100 YEARS (1913 – 1915)
21.10.2015 – 07.11.2015 Iakovos Amperdis| Consuelo Cavaniglia| Scott Donovan| Alex Gawronski | Shane Haseman| IRWIN (Slovenia)| LAIBACH (Slovenia)| Mike Parr | Jelena Telecki | Justene Williams | et al. (NZ) Curated by Iakovos Amperidis and Alex Gawronski Black Square – 100 years (1913-1915) – is the sequel to the first incarnation of this exhibition curated by Alex Gawronski and Iakovos Amperidis at the AEAF Adelaide in 2013 (www.blacksquare100.wordpress.com)….
Linear Momentum
30.09.2015 – 17.10.2015 Simon Faithful (UK) | April Gertler (US) | IEPE (NL) | Melanie Irwin (AUS) | Richard Rocholl (DE) Curated by Conny Becker (DE) Coordinated by Melanie Irwin (AUS) This exhibition will bring together five diverse experimental approaches, using a range of media, to explore the potential of a fundamental artistic gesture the drawn line and its relationship with human movement through the city…
Impractical Furniture
30.09.2015 – 17.10.2015 Michael G.F. Prior Impractical Furniture is a new collection of works that compose motion, sound and light. Like a living room furnished with misconceived Autoprogettazione, the appearance of each component suggests some familiar utility without ever disclosing a clear function. This is an autonomous furniture, free to play. Applying aleatoric method to…
Possibly etc
09.09.2015 – 26.09.2015 Fergus Binns Possibly etc is an exhibition of work, which employs the language of abstraction. Using pencils, pens, textas, water colour and most predominately paint, they follow on from work I made in Central Australia in mid 2014. What sets these apart is the investment into them. The works are a lot more…
Excessive Convenience
09.09.2015 – 26.09.2015 Dan Peter Petersen Excessive Convenience is an exhibition of kinetic sculpture text pieces that display both symmetry and repetition, continuing Petersen’s interest in ‘the moving still image’.These sculptural text pieces are palindromic, activated by repetitive mechanical oil paint loaded strokes. The works attempt a sort of predictability in their ongoing mechanical oscillation, echoed…
TCB FUNDRAISER
22.08.2015 – 29.08.2015 TCB FUNDRAISER OPENING 4 – 8 PM | SATURDAY 22 AUGUST Please click here to download TCB fundraiser catalogue Established in 1998, TCB art inc. has been dedicated to providing a space where young, emerging and established artists alike have the artistic freedom to explore, experiment and take risks within their practices. A substantial rent increase…
Infinite Dwell Time / Fluorescent Composition VI
29.07.2015 – 15.08.2015 David Mutch David Mutch presents two new projects in his forthcoming solo exhibition at TCB art inc. Fluorescent Composition VI is a site-specific continuation of a series that harnesses flickering fluorescent light material. A video and light installation transform the 7Eleven glare of the TCB fluoro array into something more meditative. Infinite…
A selection of artists I want to fuck presented at TCB artinc between the 29th July and 15th August 2015
29.07.2015 – 05.08.2015 Jake Preval A Selection of Artists… explores the correlation between my sexual desire and my artistic practice. For the show I have invited 7 babes to each lend me a work of their choosing that I will then display. Once installed the show will provide an abstract map of my own filthy…
Threshold
29.07.2015 – 05.08.2015 tarab (Eamon Sprod) | Curated by Aneta Trajkoski Threshold is a newly curated platform for sound artists to realize projects in curious spaces outside the gallery context. Threshold seeks to renegotiate artistic practices that sit beyond the lexicon of the gallery and perceptions of exhibition formats. The first in this series sees Melbourne artist…
No, I couldn’t agree with you more.
08.07.2015 – 25.07.2015 Briony Galligan | Rosie Isaac Briony Galligan and Rosie Isaac have developed two performance works in parallel. The performances will take place simultaneously; the sets, props and scripts will continue to exist in proximity. They risk confusing, interrupting and disagreeing with one another. They also risk never meeting at all.
Slang
08.07.2015 – 25.07.2015 Isabelle Sully In 1973 when Whitlam bought Blue Poles The Herald ran a cover story with the heading ‘Would you pay $1.3 million for this?’ Below it sat a large reproduction of Pollock’s painting and an accompanying tag line stating: ‘Here it is for your wall, your Herald souvenir of Australia’s controversial…
COLLABORATIONS (1998-2015)
17.06.2015 – 07.07.2015 Raafat Ishak Raafat Ishak has recently completed a PhD at Monash University, spent 3 months in Paris not long before that, and is currently teaching at VCA. Recent exhibitions include Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, 2014, Apnea, Sutton Gallery and Maria (in collaboration with Lisa Radford), Incidents Above a Bar, both…
ZIG-ZAG TRAIL
17.06.2015 – 07.07.2015 Milli Jannides (NZ) The zig-zag trail is a group of new oil paintings by Milli Jannides. These paintings pick up on threads of imagery she has left behind her (or ahead?) and, like clues discovered and then forgotten again, together they lead the way. The easiest way to climb a mountain is the…
COME TO NOW
28.05.2015 – 13.06.2015 Damiano Bertoli This exhibition has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
PUNK ON A BED
06.05.2015 – 23.05.2015 Ronnie van Hout A life-size mannequin (of the artist) dressed as a punk standing on a ‘bed’. A collaborative video work, with Kalinda Vary and Ronnie van Hout. This video is a documentation of the two artists pillow fighting each other. This exhibition has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia…
NOW GO OVER THERE AND STAND ON THAT CHAIR
06.05.2015 – 23.05.2015 Kalinda Vary now go over there and stand on that chair takes direction from sex-research and sex-instruction manuals. Thinking about – Nothing in particular, flip-flop, inside-out doll. Scales slime and hair. The Penetrator (1967). Either or. Look closely, you will get side-tracked. One mind, two-directions. Kalinda Vary completed a Bachelor of Fine Art,…
LAPPING THE HORIZON
06.05.2015 – 23.05.2015 Aodhan Madden Lapping the horizon an edge reached falling from a skyscraper never built building a body from dust like extracting coins from blood flowing through metal moving money seeing the Earth in a second and stoning the sea dead even though ‘water finds its own level’ and water never breaks and…