Do your thing
May 13, 2006
It’s my happening and it’s freaking me out. Please come to a night of dancing and art coordinated by NUCA member Margie Borschke presenting DJ Spun, the DJ and curator behind the fab Warm Up parties at PS1/MoMA in New York and local crew Paradise Lost (James Bucknell, Mikey Miutante, Silvio Mangles, Brut33). Do something uncollectable while you’re there. Do Your Thing…you know you want to.
DO YOUR THING is a dance party that believes in the power of music and art to bring people together. Inspired by old school warehouse parties, happenings, block parties and the DIY spirit, Do Your Thing believes in fun and believes that artist-run galleries are important community spaces. Do Your Thing is thrilled to be collaborating with the Boomalli Aboriginal Artist Cooperative, a group that believes firmly in doing their own thing.
Do Your Thing, hopes that you will too.
On Friday May 19, Do Your Thing presents
DJ Spun (Rong Records, PS1/MoMA Warm Up - New York) &
Paradise Lost DJs (James Bucknell, Mikey Miutante, Silvio Mangles and Brut33) at the
Boomalli Gallery, 55-59 Flood Street Leichhardt.
Visuals by artists from Squatspace, Citylights (Melb.) and more.
10pm until late.
$10 entry
See do-your-thing.blogspot.com or www.paradiselost.net.au for a map and more info.
Boomalli is an aboriginal owned and operated artist cooperative.
DO YOUR THING has invited visual artists from Sydney and Melbourne to do their thing. Some participants include:
Andrew Mac runs Citylights, a public art initiative specialising in street-based collaborative and installations works, and Until Never Gallery, representing art of the streets and fine Australian and international art. (2nd flr 3-5 Hosier Lane Melbourne. Hours: 12-6pm Wednesday to Saturday.) He has been staging outdoor public art events since 1994 and has collected stencil art for the National Gallery of Australia.
Elvis Richardson is a visual artist and lecturer based in Canberra. Slide Show Land is an ongoing archive, started in 2001 of 35mm transparencies purchased on e-bay. It has been exhibited at galleries in New York, Alabama, New Zealand and Australia.
Slow Learner and Nobody are both members of Squatspace, a group of artists and activists engaged with the politics and pleasures of space in the city. From auspicious beginnings at the Broadway Squats in 2000, they have evolved to be a “spaceless” organisation, co-ordinating projects such as the Redfern Waterloo Tour of Beauty, organising events and hosting websites.
Matthew Poll is a visual artist and the artistic director of Boomalli Gallery.
Margie Borschke belives that throwing parties is an art. She coordinates Do Your Thing and is a member of NUCA, the network of un-collectable artists.
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Who are Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative?
Boomalli is an Aboriginal owned and operated artist co-operative,
established over 20 years ago by Koori artists. Boomalli means to
strike a mark! and it is a language word from at least three nations -
Bundjalung, Gamileroi and Wiradjuri - from the region known as New
South Wales.
With over 50 artist members including founding members, the late Michael
Riley and Tracey Moffat, image makers who fought to make
their mark through exhibiting their art on their terms! These artists
refused to be confined by the then existing preconceptions and
incorrect notions held by the majority of non-Aboriginal people about
what constituted ‘truly Aboriginal’ or ‘authentic’ Aboriginal art,
people and culture.
Urban art! Traditional Art! Tradition is a living, changing entity!
Boomalli represents New South Wales Aboriginal people, of whom there are many!
Boomalli is an important Australian entitiy!!