This Is: This Is Not Art 2009

1st October, 2009

20:00:00 – 00:00:00

Join us as we officially open and celebrate our tenth This Is Not Art! Includes champers, cake, and the ribbon cutting on our amazing scoop venue. Come and celebrate in style and party like its 1999… Featuring: Jean Poole and Dan MacKinlay, Cleptoclectics

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China Club Arts Hub & Giraffe Carafe Grande Official Opening Doo Whop

1st October, 2009

16:00:00 – 17:00:00

This year marks the 10th annual This Is Not Art festival, and to celebrate we have created a visual arts hub, which will open with live drawing, and a movable flatpack gallery. If you’re interested in Visual Arts, the China Club Arts Hub is the Mecca meeting point for 2009. Come and help us cut the ribbon in true TINA stylee. Featuring: Fiona Lee (Curator), Matt Rochford, Guerrilla Gallery, Lauren Bamford, Angela Femia, Laura Castignini, Lisa Stewart, Carl Scrase, Safari Team, Alanna Lorenzon, Simon Martinus, Rachel Feery, Anna Buchanan, Aaron Cooper, Ry Wilkin, Selena de Carvalho, Jasmine Salomon, Sarah Jones, Luke Thurgate, a/genda, Neal Smith, Risk Collectors, Jacqulene Drinkall, Miriam Chat, Belle Brooks

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Hangover

2nd October, 2009

16:00:00 – 17:30:00

Hangover tells the story about a teenager during the late Eighties in Brazil, across 120 scenes, and remixed live as a cross between cinema and live performance. Featuring: Bruno Vianna and Rodrigo Marçal

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Let's Paint TV

3rd October, 2009

12:00:00 – 13:30:00

In a major collaborative effort, a group of artists and musicians will come together create an interactive multimedia and performance space largely inspired by John Kilduff’s art-damaged infomercial “Let’s Paint TV.” Featuring: John Kilduff, Tim Dwyer, Holly Fluxx, Kati Cubby, Toecutter, Emily O'Brien, Shaun South, Iko and friends.

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Suburban Giants

3rd October, 2009

20:30:00 – 22:30:00

Suburban Giants is a large-scale projection that turns buildings into blank canvases,  offering the opportunity to digitally paint on Newcastle’s walls. Featuring: Lachlan Tetlow-Stewart and Jo Kerlogue

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Let's Paint TV

3rd October, 2009

16:00:00 – 17:00:00

In a major collaborative effort, a group of artists and musicians will come together create an interactive multimedia and performance space largely inspired by John Kilduff’s art-damaged infomercial “Let’s Paint TV.” Featuring: John Kilduff, Tim Dwyer, Holly Fluxx, Kati Cubby, Toecutter, Emily O'Brien, Shaun South, Iko and friends.

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Consumer Index - Projection

3rd October, 2009

22:30:00 – 23:30:00

Outdoor projections of a wetware performance where Kenyon acts as a “Neilsen Family” member, becoming a virus inside the catalogue system, splintering market data research of typical American consumerism. Usurping and circuit bending the Neilsen homescan barcode scanner, and fusing it with a micro-video camera implanted inside the mouth, he indexes local products and services. Featuring: S.W.A.M.P. (Matthew Kenyon)

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Temp° Sauna

4th October, 2009

15:00:00 – 19:00:00

Temp° Sauna is a nomadic take by the DIY generation on the millennia old Finnish tradition and survival technique. A transportable steam bath aiming to translate Northern European traditions into new living sauna culture, brought to unexpected places and contexts and facilitating creative exchange between people and cultures. Mobile, ephemeral, stealth and DIY, continually re-inventing itself – open for spontaneous involvements. Featuring: Mika Meskanen

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Let's Paint TV

4th October, 2009

12:00:00 – 13:30:00

In a major collaborative effort, a group of artists and musicians will come together create an interactive multimedia and performance space largely inspired by John Kilduff’s art-damaged infomercial “Let’s Paint TV.” Featuring: John Kilduff, Tim Dwyer, Holly Fluxx, Kati Cubby, Toecutter, Emily O'Brien, Shaun South, Iko and friends.

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Let's Paint TV

4th October, 2009

16:00:00 – 17:00:00

In a major collaborative effort, a group of artists and musicians will come together create an interactive multimedia and performance space largely inspired by John Kilduff’s art-damaged infomercial “Let’s Paint TV.” Featuring: John Kilduff, Tim Dwyer, Holly Fluxx, Kati Cubby, Toecutter, Emily O'Brien, Shaun South, Iko and friends.

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Youtube Battles 2: Electric Boogaloo (Starring Hulk Hogan as the Villain)

4th October, 2009

17:00:00 – 18:00:00

Back again in 2009 with new rules, new videos and the trophy of all trophies, this web 2.0 extravaganza promises to do nothing less than blow your mind in the ultimate viral video smackdown. Simply rock up on the day and test your might to see whose stream will reign supreme! Featuring: Daniel Green and Kate Byrne

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Suburban Giants

4th October, 2009

20:30:00 – 22:00:00

Suburban Giants is a large-scale projection that turns buildings into blank canvases,  offering the opportunity to digitally paint on Newcastle’s walls. Featuring: Lachlan Tetlow-Stewart and Jo Kerlogue

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Consumer Index - Projection

4th October, 2009

22:30:00 – 23:30:00

Outdoor projections of a wetware performance where Kenyon acts as a “Neilsen Family” member, becoming a virus inside the catalogue system, splintering market data research of typical American consumerism. Usurping and circuit bending the Neilsen homescan barcode scanner, and fusing it with a micro-video camera implanted inside the mouth, he indexes local products and services. Featuring: S.W.A.M.P. (Matthew Kenyon)

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Temp° Sauna

5th October, 2009

10:00:00 – 14:00:00

Temp° Sauna is a nomadic take by the DIY generation on the millennia old Finnish tradition and survival technique. A transportable steam bath aiming to translate Northern European traditions into new living sauna culture, brought to unexpected places and contexts and facilitating creative exchange between people and cultures. Mobile, ephemeral, stealth and DIY, continually re-inventing itself – open for spontaneous involvements. Featuring: Mika Meskanen

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