“Wake up and wait for the sun to rise, 500 methods for a new beginning”
Applespiel, Tully Arnot, Charles Dennington, Claire Finneran, HOSSEI, Lucky PDF and Tape Projects
19 May → 27 May 2012

Wake Up… explores diverse forms of contemporary collaborative practice. It is also the keynote project for the 2012 Next Wave Festival, The space between us wants to sing. Five young and emerging artist collectives will develop a variety of new artist-driven social spaces that encourage us to imagine new possibilities for being together. The project will infiltrate all corners of the gallery, turning it into home base for Festival-fans as they journey throughout Melbourne experiencing the next wave of Australian artists.

Through our development programs and biennial Festival, Next Wave assists emerging artists to realise extraordinary new work that invites us to see the world and ourselves in unexpected ways.

Dates of the festival: Saturday 19 May – Sunday 27 May 2012 West Space will be open each day of the festival: 12pm until late

Please scroll down for further information on each project as well as program info.
nextwave.org.au

Front Space
THE SCHOOL OF GLOBAL ART: DOWN UNDER!
LUCKY PDF (UK)

Lucky PDF is Ollie Hogan, John Hill, James Early and Yuri Pattison. The artist group has been active in Peckham, south-east London, since 2009 working collaboratively with an ever-changing network of emerging artists, they produce online television programmes, internet interventions and live events.

The School of Global Art extends its global outreach to sign up a new class of international students, setting up our first Global Outreach Campus in Melbourne, Australia. SGA’s new campus opened this week in Australia. From the specially designed Melbourne classroom SGA has organised presentations and conversations from artists, writers and academics spanning the globe. Using Google Hang-out the class discussions are live for students around the world and will be published online via Dismagazine. Join us to find out what the world looks like upside down.

TALKS YOU CAN ATTEND/WATCH LIVE ONLINE:
Saturday 19 May 2012. Helga Wretman (SV) – Body and Mind Visualization for Artists. Live online at Dis. Time: 15.30 Melbourne.
Monday 21 May 2012. Omar Kholeif (UK) – Art and Subversion: The Contemporary Politics of Art in the so-called Arab World. Live online at Dis. Time: 15.30 Melbourne.
Tuesday 22 May 2012. Ry David Bradley (AU/HK) – Painted etc: a history of painting backwards from Adobe Photoshop CS6. Live online at Dis. Time: 18.00 Melbourne.
Wednesday 23 May 2012. Kate Durbin (LA) – WOMEN AS OBJECTS. Live online at Dis. Time: 13.30, Melbourne.
Wednesday 23 May 2012. B. Evans – Art by Telephone w/ THINK Global School, Lindsay Lawson, Timur Si-Qin and LuckyPDF. Live online at Dis. Time: 19.30 Melbourne, 17.30 Singapore, 15.00 Islamabad, 11.30 Berlin, 04.30 Mexico City.
Thursday 24 May 2012. Justin Clemens – Image Control in Global Networks. Live online at Dis. Time: 20.00 Melbourne, 14.30 Tehran, 12.00 Cape Town, 10.00 Reykjavik, 05.00 Port-au Prince.
Friday 25 May 2012. Rebecca Holborn w/ MadeIn Company and David Ferrando Giraut translation by Yi Tang. Live online at Dis. Time: 19.00 Melbourne, 17.00 Shanghai, 14.30 New Dehli, 12.00 Damascus, 11.00 Madrid, 04.00 Chicago.
Saturday 26 May 2012. Discipline Magazine contributors Sarinah Masukor & Tim Alves discuss Vernon Ah Kee’s Tall Man. Time TBC.
Saturday 26 May 2012. Helga Wretman – Body and Mind Visualization for Artists. Live online at Dis. Time: 19.30 Melbourne, 17.30 Taipei, 11.30 Stockholm, 09.30 Marrakesh, 05.30 Toronto, 03.30 Easter Island.

LuckyPDF acknowledges the traditional owners of the land on which we are gathered and pay our respects to our elders both past and present.

Gallery 1
TH¿NK³
TULLY ARNOT & CHARLES DENNINGTON (NSW)
Tully and Charles are emerging inventors with numerous patents (pending) to their names.?
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Are you thinking? Have you ever really thought? We think. At TH¿Nk³ we have reinvented thought for the 21st century human. Come join master thinkers Charlie and Tully as they think about thought. At TH¿Nk³ we have your think efficiency covered. TH¿Nk³ is a space for you to think and a service for you to materialise your thoughts. Inventions while-u-wait.
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At TH¿Nk³ we think… cubed
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Oxygenated and Ionised for maximum thinking efficiency, the TH¿Nk³ “think-tank” will be open all day every day. Master thinkers Tully and Charles will be inventing solutions to your thought needs between 5pm and 9pm unless out to lunch. Private consultation times can be arranged by emailing thinkcubed@hotmail.com or sign up in person. More info at www.thinkcubed.tumblr.com

Gallery 2
WAY OUT
HOSSEIN GHAEMI & CLAIRE FINNERAN (NSW)
Claire and Hossein use sculpture, sound, installation and performance to generate environments that investigate idiosyncrasies from the wake of their traditional religious upbringings and muddled ideas of ‘holiness’. Taking cues from sensory theatrics in churches, utopian ideas of syncretism and pop musical references to ritual, they provide catered spaces for confused worship. Hossein Ghaemi is represented by The Commercial Gallery, Sydney.

SO YOU THINK YOU CAN TRANCE?
Over the course of eight succinct dance parties, Way Out examines contemporary modes of divine experience. Is the epiphanic ecstasy of dancing all night lesser than attending a church service at 9am on a Sunday morning? Can we achieve the same level of catharsis through mindlessly partying as we can emotionally purging to a ‘higher power’? Is the DJ the new deity?
Let your hair down, cry your eyes out, sweat your prayers and get down to get up in the wildest open-air nightclub ever to be conducted indoors!!

DJ PROGRAM-THEMED EVENTS
From 9.30pm each night!
Sat 19: Try Again (New Beginnings)
Sun 20: Love Fool (Romance/Lust)
Mon 21: No Way Back (House/Clubbin’)
Tues 22: CRY (Emotional purge)
Wed 23: Dads with Earrings (Oz culture)
Thurs 24: Death and the Maiden (Death/Rebirth)
Fri 25: Outta Here (Leaving/Holiday)
Sat 26: Woomp! dere it is! (Various)

Gallery 3
AT THE REQUEST OF CARL SAGAN
APPLESPIEL (NSW)
Applespiel is Simon Binns, Nathan Harrison, Nikki Kennedy, Emma McManus, Joseph Parro, Troy Reid, Rachel Roberts and Mark Rogers. The group of young performers evolved out of a shared interest in contemporary performance and a collaborative creative process. They each engage with projects passionately from different perspectives, based on our backgrounds and interests. Applespiel believe that Next Wave should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the festival is out, of sending someone to the stars and returning them safely to the earth. No single space project in this festival will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space-based theatre, and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish. Take a journey into the known and unknown.

Tours depart from Mission Control daily at 2pm, 4pm, 6pm, 7pm, 8pm and 9pm. For more info, see memo boards at Mission Control.

Back Space
BECOMING CAROL BROWN
TAPE PROJECTS (VIC)
The Tape Projects (TAPR) artists in Wake Up are Michael Prior, Zoe Scoglio, Caroline Anderson and Matthew O’Shannessy. TAPR members have a curiosity for exploration, collaboration and learning with experimental practices both inside and outside the gallery. TAPR also provides a collaborative support structure for those who share their ethic. Recent explorations include blindfolded bus trips, oracle consulting, toasty eating ceremonies, porthole construction, ritualistic aerobics, group-dreaming, and pseudo-scientific game playing.
In spring of 2009, Carol Brown witnessed a puzzling change within herself. The partitions of her mind fell away and she could no longer tell where she ended and the next person began. She felt connected beyond the internet’s wildest dreams and a carpet of imaginary solutions rolled out beneath her. In autumn of 2012, Tape Projects upholsters Carol’s mental furniture into an eight part mini-series. Step on set and cast yourself into the oblique melodrama that is the party within.

Premiers Saturday 19 May, nightly from 6pm.
Sat19: Episode 1: Aniticipating Anticipation
Sun 20: Episode 2: Receiving Transmissions
Mon 21: Episode 3: Carol Tears It Up
Tues 22: Episode 4: Carol Re-bakes Old Ideas
Wed 23: Episode 5: The Party Within The Party Within
Thurs 24: Episode 6: Carol Gets Some Perspective
Fri 25: Episode 7: A Christmas Carol
Sat 26: Episode 8: Cliff-hangover (before it’s begun)

Episodes will ‘air’ between 6pm and 10pm each day of the festival. If you miss out there will be daily re-runs between 12 and 4pm.