Newcastle’s annual This is Not Art festival is back in 2010 for its 11th year, taking place from 30th September – 4th October 2010. The festival presents Australia’s most exciting and emergent exhibitions, screenings, performances, panels, workshops, talks, gigs, interventions, live art, and special events in five days of creativity and absolute madness. The festival features over 400 local, national and international artists in a combination of writers, performers, thinkers, independent and industry musicians, creative researchers, electronic artists, dilettantes, and much, much more.
This Is Not Art 2010 is a collaboration between the following: The Crack Theatre Festival
The Crack Theatre Festival is a new national theatre arts festival and forum and features a three-day program of performances, forums, and workshops that profile the diverse styles and forms within contemporary Australian theatre.
Critical Animals
Critical Animals musters together postgraduate and honours students (as well as those recently graduated and still at a loose end), early career academics, quasi-intellectuals and anyone else interested in devouring critical contexts for the kinds of experimental and emerging arts and media practices in the This Is Not Art program.
Electrofringe
Electrofringe is a festival of experimental electronic arts and culture dedicated to skills development and artistic exchange. It focuses on uncovering emergent forms and places a particular emphasis on encouraging exchange between emerging and established artists.
National Young Writers’ Festival
The National Young Writers’ Festival is Australia’s premier event for emerging writers, publishers, performers and trouble-makers. Far from the seas of white hair, book signings and celebrity author worship you might expect, the NYWF is a DIY, hands-on conversation between equals.
Sound Summit
Sound Summit exists to support brilliant artists, labels and people that work and play in the world of innovative independent music both from Australia and abroad.
HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:
This Is: This Is Not Art 2010
Festival Club
Thursday 6pm – Midnight
Join us for the opening night party of the 11th This Is Not Art. Set in our new Festival Club, come together for cheering, frivolity and the inevitable incoherent speech.
Featuring: Caravan of Dooom and Kira Puru and the Bruise
Blip Showcase - Electrofringe
Newcastle Leagues Club
Thursday 7pm – Midnight
The world’s greatest chiptune musicians in one unforgettable night of lo-fi rump-shaking glory. Tickets $12+BF presale / $15 on the door / presale from electrofringe.iwannaticket.com.au
Featuring: Nullsleep (US), Bit Shifter (US) as well as local and international acts
Late Nights at the Gun Bar – Critical Animals
United Service Club
Friday & Saturday 7 – 10pm
On Friday we look at the uses of philosophy for poetry, on Saturday, the poetics of intoxication. Join in as our curated readings and discussion devolve into open debate.
Featuring: Tim Wright, Stu Hatton, Duncan Hose, Jal Nicholl, Bella Li, Corey Wakeling, Joshua Comyn, Tom Lee, Jess Wilkinson, Keri Glastonbury, Nick Keys and Harriet Johnson
Friday Night Showcase
Cambridge
7.30pm – 3am
Featuring: Jason Forrest (USA), Tantrums (Vic), Scattered Order, Geodesic Domes, No Anchor (Qld), PA, Cock Safari and Black Math
Tickets $12 +BF presale / $15 on the door / $20+BF two night festival pass (presale only) from www.moshtix.com, Cambridge Hotel and 1300 GET TIX.
Sketch the Rhyme – National Young Writers’ Festival
Festival Club
Friday 8.30 – 10.15pm
An interactive hip hop gameshow where speed drawing meets rapping meets live hip hop beats. Artists sketch on paper that is filmed and projected live. Rappers freestyle about what the artists are drawing. Featuring: Sketch the Rhyme, Christopher Downes, David Blumenstein, Patrick Alexander, Rebecca Clements and Amber Carvan
Saturday Night Showcase
Cambridge
7.30pm – 3am
Featuring: Grouper (USA), Songs, Nhomea, Potato Master (Qld), Blank Realm (Qld), They Live, Anna Chase and Bare Grillz
Tickets $12+BF presale / $15 on the door / $20+BF two night festival pass (presale only) from www.moshtix.com, Cambridge Hotel and 1300 GET TIX.
American Gothic Ball – National Young Writers’ Festival
Festival Club
Saturday 8 – 11.30pm
Weird tales of deepest darkest America. Elvis fighting soul-sucking mummies. Cthulhu in Deadwood. Old bluesmen meeting the devil at the crossroads. Brush up on your Joe R Lansdale and Cherie Priest, put on your cowboy hat and neckerchief, and have yourself a rollicking occult time.
Soundclash – Sound Summit
Festival Club
Sunday 7 – 10pm
Showcase of the Soundclash initiative, a program of the Australia Council for the Arts that supports the creative development of music which takes risks and demonstrates innovation within the popular music form.
Featuring: kyü, Holy Balm and Collarbones
Year 12 Formal – Crack Theatre Festival
Crackhouse
Sunday 6 – 11pm
Bear witness to an event of tremendous significance: YOUR YEAR 12 FORMAL. Amidst the turbulent maelstrom of music, dancing and carnage, the audience is welcome to become performer, performer to become audience, woman to become man, dog to become bicycle!
Featuring: Hadley, Spill Collective, Svelt, Dead DJ Joke and every hormone-ridden artist in this city
Blind, As You See It – Crack Theatre Festival
The Playhouse
Thursday 7 – 8pm, Friday 4 – 5pm
A hybrid performance and exploration into the process of losing one’s sight. A visual, humourous yet delicate feast, this journey into darkness blends magic, original music, dance clowning, puppetry and visual (black art) theatre.
Critiquing Criticism: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better – Critical Animals
City Hall: Banquet Room
Friday 10 – 11.30am
A conversation about the role of the critic — nurturer or discerner; impartial judge or cosy coteriean; good cop, bad cop — and the current state of criticism. Co-presented with Macquarie University Faculty of Arts.
Featuring: Fenella Kernebone, Lisa Dempster, Andrew Ramadge, Naomi Milthorpe and Shaun Prescott
ETS’ and Ecosystems: Environmental Writing in an Election Year – National Young Writers’ Festival City Hall: Mulubinba Room
Friday 1 – 2.15pm
It's the vanguard of journalism for this generation, but writing climate change is tricky business. Grassroots activists, writers and mainstream journos discuss the challenges of navigating the politics, economics and science of contemporary environmental journalism.
Featuring: Anna Krien, Ben Cubby, Leisel Rickaby, Rebecca Clements and Scott Foyster
The Rimming Club – Crack Theatre Festival
Crackhouse: Grand Lodge
Saturday 7 – 8pm
Four estranged friends reunite on a Greek island, hoping to reclaim the summer that forever changed their lives. But has too much changed? Can you really ever escape the past? What does poo taste like? All your faves ass to mouth NOM NOM NOM NOM!!!!1!!!
Featuring: Sisters Grimm
WalkARTbout - This is Not Art
This is Not Art is a key project for the Octapod Association: a not-for-profit community organisation that acts as a resource base, facilitator and incubator of community driven arts and media projects.
This year, This is Not Art is thrilled to introduce a new venture to its already exciting and innovative program. In response to the city’s lack of public street art, TiNA will be commencing walkARTbout which is aimed at creating a positive solution to the community issue of graffiti and vandalism.
Working with Newcastle City Council and Newcastle City Centre Committee, walkARTbout will showcase the talents of artists from all backgrounds such as printmaking, illustration, aerosol art and painting. As well as sustainable and non-obtrusive forms of street art such as fibre art, moss art, knitting, installations using recycled materials and more to revitalise inner city by actively engaging with the arts community.
Check out www.thisisnotart.org for further details.
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