artBLASTNEW ART ACROSS BENDIGO’S HEART24-26 FEBRUARY 2012

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Punctum is excited to be producing and presenting the Next On Now Art Blast. This nationally recognised program, created over the past year, supports the work of young and emerging artists in Central Victoria. We are proud to celebrate the talent and vitality that these artists bring to the greater Bendigo community.

We hope you are as inspired by their work as we are!

ART BLAST OPENINGThe Next On Now artists and co-ordinators invite you to celebrate the opening of the Next On Now Art Blast.

UPSTAIRS VIEWPOINT GALLERY, 13 VIEW POINT FRI 24 FEB 6:00-8:00PM

HAVENCREATED BY ISOBELLE SIRIANNIIsobelle Sirianni is an artist living in Bendigo. She studied a Bachelor of Visual Arts at LaTrobe Bendigo in 2004 majoring in Painting and Drawing, and Printmaking. Isobelle returned to Bendigo in 2010 to study a Diploma of Education and is returning to study honours in Visual Arts this year after traveling nationally and interna-tionally. Isobelle has recently begun developing installations and sculptures focusing on the idea of creating emotions through experiencing and interacting with objects and space.

Haven is an installation of sculptures that encourages reminiscing upon childhood feelings. The installation provides four sculp-tures in different areas that look at varying levels of comfort or security and fear. Specific textures, tones, forms and sounds are used to link familiar experiences of contentment while the scale, visibility and unfamiliarity of the sculptures may also evoke awe. The audience are encouraged to actively interact with the artworks to experience these emotions by allowing their body to be encased and surrounded by each sculpture. VIEWPOINT GALLERY UPSTAIRS, 13 VIEW POINT (CNR HIGH STREET)

SAT 25 FEB 11:00AM - 5:00PM SUN 26 FEB 11:00AM - 5:00PM

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ETERNITY LEAVECREATED BY LEONIE KELSALLLeonie Kelsall’s art is not only about death itself; it is also about transcending culturally inherited attitudes towards death. Through the ages, death has presented us with a blank canvas on which to project our hopes and fears. But is it so final? Can we learn to overcome fear of the unknown by stepping out of the box and into another one? Eternity Leave attempts to help us do just that. Death may not only repre-sent an end to the physical, but also presents us with a new beginning, an opportunity for renewal within the cycles of life.

Leonie is interested in dealing with things that are difficult and taboo. She believes that if something is difficult we need to look at it. One of our cultural taboos, death, is a subject with which Leonie tempts us to interact with by giv-ing us a chance to try death on for size. Eternity Leave will give you the opportunity to try your coffin out to see what it is like to step into the other world. Through a series of photographs, drawings, and installations, Leonie invites her viewers to step beyond their comfort zone and contemplate the inevitable.BENDIGO BANK THEATRE AT THE CAPITAL, 50 VIEW STREET

SAT 25 FEB 11:00AM - 5:00PM SUN 26 FEB 11:00AM - 5:00PM

DARK MATTERSCREATED BY KATIE SFETKIDISKatie Sfetkidis is a current member of Punctum and has worked on In Habit (2010) and as a Seedpod artist devising Who’s Afraid of the Dark? (2010). She is also a mentoring art-ist for Next on Now. This year Katie will also be mentored by Punctum’s Jude Anderson as part of the JUMP national mentoring program.

Dark Matters is an exploration of our experi-ence of darkness and dark spaces. It aims to question our preconceived ideas of darkness as a place of fear. As part of Katie’s research, she camped alone without light at Melville Caves in the middle of winter. Dark Matters invites you to experience dark space as a quiet and peaceful place through the creation of an immersive environment. This piece was originally developed as part of Punctum’s Seedpod program in 2010.

OLD FIRE STATION AT THE CAPITAL, 50 VIEW STREET

SAT 25 FEB 6:00PM AND 8:30PM SUN 26 FEB - 2:00PM AND 6:00PM

EXPERIENCE IS APPROXIMATELY 90 MINUTES

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THE NEXT ON NOW FAMILYCREATED BY CHRISTINE SAYERIn many families there’s ‘a photographer’. Their familiarity with their subjects allows them to pass unobserved. They are the quiet observer who, through their personal prism documents the antics at gatherings, moments of celebra-tion, play, combat and quietude. Since the inven-tion of photography the family photographer’s photos have ended up on walls, in albums, and sometimes in galleries. Now they’re also found on blogs, Facebook and screen savers. As the Next On Now family photographer, Christine has chosen to present her ‘family photos’ in a 19th century domestic space that is at the same time a gallery. Here you can sit back in a light filled lounge room with our family, and enjoy playing the quiet observer as Christine has done over the past months. VIEWPOINT GALLERY UPSTAIRS, 13 VIEW POINT (CNR HIGH STREET) AND ALLAN’S WALK, BEEHIVE PLAZA, PALL MALL

SAT 25 FEB 11:00AM - 5:00PM SUN 26 FEB 11:00AM - 5:00PM

BIRDS, BEES, BATS AND RATSCREATED AND PERFORMED BY AMY TURTON WITH STELLA BARTA-WONG AND JESSICA WALTERS

Amy Turton is a Melbourne based theatre maker, originally from Carisbrook in Central Victoria. In this work she draws on her personal experience as a teenager in Bendigo as well as from interviews with young women in the area whose voices are at the centre of the work.

Birds, Bees, Bats and Rats is a guided tour through Rosalind Park, uncovering stories of adolescent female desire in Bendigo’s lush, green heart. Desire is positioned as a strong, guiding voice that can empower young women to make active, safe and healthy decisions. The work explores Rosalind Park as the historical site for the performance of sexuality. ROSALIND PARK - BRIDGE ENTRY AT CARPARK OF BENDIGO VISITOR CENTRE (END WILLIAMSON STREET)

SAT 25 FEB 2:00PM, 4:00PM, 7:00PM, 8:00PM AND 9:00PM

SUN 26 FEB 11:00AM, 2:00PM, 4:00PM, 7:00PM AND 8:00PM

EACH PERFORMANCE IS APPROXIMATELY 45 MINUTES AND HAS LIMITED CAPACITY

MARGINAL SPACECREATED BY TOM PENDERMarginal spaces occur within the built envi-ronment as a result of urban progress. These spaces can occur in the form of abandoned buildings, disused parcels of land and the non-spaces created as a result of construc-tion of modern bridges and motorways. Often destroyed by the same process by which they were created, Marginal Space is a state of flux.

Marginal people are those who use these mar-ginal spaces for reasons as varying as the indi-viduals themselves; the homeless find shelter, the addict finds temporary sanctuary and the graffiti artist finds a canvas. Anonymous and clandestine encounters take place. Sometimes all these things happen within the same space.

Tom Pender’s work seeks to explore the way in which people can use a space on their own terms, how society can view these people as the ‘other’. Marginal Space is a created space in which visitors enter to enjoy as they will and experience what it is to be the ‘other’.DRAGON CITY LANES CARPARK, 161 HARGREAVES STREET

SAT 25 FEB LUNCH EXPERIENCE 12:00 - 3:00PM, DINNER EXPERIENCE 6:00 - 9:00PM

SUN 26 FEB LUNCH EXPERIENCE 11:00AM - 2:00PM, DINNER EXPERIENCE 5:00 - 8:00PM

OPEN FOR ‘VIEWING ONLY’ BETWEEN LUNCH AND DINNER EXPERIENCES

THE NON-BLOGCREATED BY KELLY ROBSONOver the course of the Next On Now program, local blogger Kelly Robson has worked on creating a blog for the program. Documenting the artists’ creative processes through photographs, artist profiles and stories, the blog shares with us the many experiences that have lead to the Next On Now Art Blast. VIEWPOINT GALLERY UPSTAIRS, 13 VIEW POINT (CNR HIGH STREET)

SAT 25 FEB 11:00AM - 5:00PM

SAT 26 FEB 11:00AM - 5:00PM

FLUXCREATED BY RICK WHATELEYRick Whateley comes from an illustration and street art background, working primarily with charcoal, ink, watercolour and pencil in his illustrative work and using a range of materials for street based work. Recently Rick has been exploring ways in which street art techniques and the various mediums of drawing, painting and photography can be fused to create an installation work.

The core of this work is the transformation of an empty space into something emotive, yet at the same time utilising the space and the feelings it conjures as part of the work, rather than attempting to override it. In doing so, Rick creates a certain symbiosis between the space, the work and the viewer, making the viewing a personal experience. That the work is part of a dark and confined space suggests themes of alienation, inertia, claustrophobia, void and secrecy yet it is often in such spaces we find our strengths and hidden beauty. We all have a dark stairwell in our minds, and perhaps we should have the courage to go there more often. BENDIGO VISITOR CENTRE BASEMENT, 51-67 PALL MALL

SAT 25 FEB 11:00AM - 5:00PM SUN 26 FEB 11:00AM - 5:00PM

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Next On Now has been made possible by the generous support of our partners and Punctum’s Patron Cr Rod Fyffe

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NEXT ON NOW MENTORING ARTISTSJude AndersonTara GilbeeAndrew GoodmanBrett LudemanKatie SfetkidisKate Stones

NEXT ON NOW COLLABORATING ARTISTSStella Barta-WongDave DaveyPaul FranklinReuben GrayLachlan McGuckianJacques SoddellJessica Walters

PUNCTUM CO-ORDINATING TEAMJude Anderson - Artistic DirectorKrista Horbatiuk - ProducerJacqueline Brodie-Hanns - PublicistStella Barta-Wong - Promotion & Production Assistant Rebecca Anderson - Promotion Assistant D

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1 ETERNITY LEAVE BENDIGO BANK THEATRE AT THE CAPITAL

50 VIEW STREET, BENDIGO

11:00AM – 5:00PM 11:00AM – 5:00PM

2 DARK MATTERS OLD FIRE STATION AT THE CAPITAL

50 VIEW STREET, BENDIGO

6:00PM

8:30PM

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3 HAVEN VIEWPOINT GALLERY UPSTAIRS

13 VIEW POINT, BENDIGO 11:00AM – 5:00PM 11:00AM – 5:00PM

4 THE NEXT ON NOW FAMILY

VIEWPOINT GALLERY UPSTAIRS

ALLAN’S WALK

13 VIEW POINT, BENDIGO

BEEHIVE PLAZA, PALL MALL

11:00AM – 5:00PM 11:00AM – 5:00PM

4 THE NON-BLOG VIEWPOINT GALLERY UPSTAIRS

13 VIEW POINT, BENDIGO 11:00AM – 5:00PM 11:00AM – 5:00PM

5 BIRDS, BEES, BATS AND RATS

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6 FLUX BENDIGO VISITOR CENTRE BASEMENT

51-67 PALL MALL, BENDIGO

11:00AM – 5:00PM 11:00AM – 5:00PM

7 MARGINAL SPACE DRAGON CITY LANES CARPARK

161 HARGEAVES STREET, BENDIGO

LUNCH 12:00 – 3:00PM

DINNER 6:00 – 9:00PM

LUNCH 11:00 - 2:00PM

DINNER 5:00 – 8:00PM

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