THE SHAPE OF MEMORYPresented by Critical Animals as part of This is Not Art (TiNA)

28 SEPTEMBER – 15 OCTOBER 2017OPENING NIGHT 4PM – 7PM SATURDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2017

THELOCKUP.ORG.AU | 90 HUNTER ST NEWCASTLE

COVER Zainab Hikmet, Half Moon Bay – Auckland glass 2015. Glass made from raw Half Moon Bay (Auckland) beach sand; dimensions 100mm x 100mm x 100mm.

Well known for creating environments for artists to test and exchange ideas, collaborate and experiment with different artforms, TiNA has become a catalyst for bringing thousands of creative people to Newcastle for the past 20 years.

Critical Animals, a partner of this festival, brings together artists, researchers, writers, academics, thinkers and students who are critically engaged in creative and experimental art practices. The annual Critical Animals Creative Research Symposium is an opportunity to present papers, research material and creative practice with the aim of generating discussion and collaboration.

The Lock-Up is a key partner of Critical Animals, working closely with their team to present the Critical Animals exhibition which aims to encourage and elevate emerging artists and curators, as well as supporting the presentation of the symposium during TiNA.

The Critical Animals exhibition for 2017, The Shape of Memory, investigates the internal spaces or moments that we try to forget but often come back to, the memories that lay dormant at the edges of the mind until something small triggers an involuntary response. The Shape of Memory features artists Consuelo Cavaniglia, Mohini Chandra, Dean Cross, Elise Harmsen, Zainab Hikmet, Annelies Jahn and Gabriella & Silvana Mangano.

Curated by Talia Smith.

It is at night when I cannot sleep that I think of then, breaking it down into three parts – before, during and then of course, after.

A clearing of the throat, a scrape of a chair on wooden floors, promises never kept, the soft voice of a woman singing jazz; these are the memories I associate with the before and during periods.

The after is much quieter, not sad, just very quiet.

How can a moment shape you into who you are? How can you be taken back to where you started by a murmur, a crash, a thought? How do we continue when it feels as though the world has stopped turning?

The trace of a certain moment.

The shape of memory.

When you press your fingers into your closed eyes until colours appear because you cannot bear to see anything real.

— Talia Smith

“Nothing distinguishes memories from ordinary moments. Only later do they become memorable by the scars they leave.” — Chris Marker Sans Soleil

he Shape of Memory

Presented by Critical Animals as part of This is Not Art (TiNA).

Taking place every year over the long weekend in October in Newcastle, TiNA produced by Octopod, is one of Australia’s leading contemporary arts festivals.

ARTIST-LEDFriday 29 September 10am – 11am The Lock-Up

Artist-led discusses the tactics artists use to comment on the community they produce work within. This panel will be recorded and broadcast on FBi Radio’s Canvas: Art & Ideas on Sunday 1 October.

Abdul Abdullah Aurora Scott Zoe O'Mahoney Sabrina Sokalik

THE 'REAL' WORLDFriday 29 September 1pm – 3pm The Lock-Up

Get diagnosed at the door and experience the interface with the 'real' world. An immersive, sensory journey explore disability advocacy.

Kerri Shying Danny Gentile Andrew Spannenberg

INTOXICATIONFriday 29 September 3.30pm – 4.30pm The Lock-Up

Intimacy is dead, and we’re partying with its corpse. Intoxication is a post-dramatic patchwork about the fear of being alone.

Christopher Bryant Emma Palackic

CRITICAL ANIMALS X NEWCASTLE ART GALLERY LAST FRIDAYS FT. KEVINA-JO SMITH: PLANET PROTESTFriday 29 September 5pm – 8pm Newcastle Art Gallery

Critical Animals guest programs Newcastle Art Gallery's Last Fridays event with Kevina-Jo Smith's immersive installation Planet Protest.

Kevina-Jo Smith

CRITICAL SUBURBIASaturday 30 September 10am – 11.45am The Lock-Up

Launch of Karen Lowry’s “Chamberlain Street” (suburban poetry game) and discussion of Digital Humanities as Critical Theory with Bill Pascoe.

Karen Lowry Bill Pascoe

A COMPLIFIED UNIFIED THEORY OF YOU (ME)Saturday 30 September 12pm – 3pm Newcastle Museum

Part-performance, part-sly-participatory event, part-song-and-dance trance, artists Vidya Rajan & Nithya Nagarajan invite you to create a completely unified theory of them.

Vidya Rajan Nithya Nagarajan

THESE ROMANS ARE CRAZY: HOW ASTERIX AND OBELIX CAN HELP US UNDERSTAND THE AGE OF ALTERNATIVE FACTSSaturday 30 September 12.30pm – 1.30pm The Lock-Up

A performance lecture addressing how being historically hoodwinked as children has made us a passive audience to the lies our leaders tell us.

Matt Abotomy

WAKING UPSaturday 30 September 2pm – 3.45pm The Lock-Up

In a world where socially engaged art is more important than ever, how do artists work ethically with communities?

Kate Richards Madalyn Trypas Kevin Bathman Isabella Capezio

CRITICAL MASSSaturday 30 September 3pm – 4pm Commences Newcastle Museum and concludes at The Lock-Up

Join Perth-based performance poet Scott-Patrick Mitchell (SPM) for Critical Mass, an experimental, immersive poetry walking tour that aims to not only transform Newcastle, but you as well.

Scott-Patrick Mitchell

FEMINIST POP TARTS: (DE)CONSTRUCTING POP CULTURESunday 1 October 10am – 12pm The Lock-Up

Four academics and artists talk about the intersections between pop culture and feminism – the good, the bad and the debatable.

Erin Fae Emily Francine Palmer Patricia Pender Kali Myers

CRITICISM FOR ACCOUNTABILITYSunday 1 October 12.30pm – 2.30pm The Lock-Up

What is the responsibility of the critic to advocate for change? Three cultural commentators discuss the current state of arts criticism.

Cassie Tongue Dee Jefferson Sarinah Masukor

QUESTIONS OF EVERYDAY FEELING: MEDIA AND THE SHAPING OF GENDERSunday 1 October 3pm – 5pm The Lock-Up

This panel focuses on how gender and affects (such as joy, laughter and fear) are (re)produced through physical/mediated spaces.

Elianne Renaud Megan Sharp Dr Akane Kanai

CEREMONY FOR LOST NATURAL CONNECTIONSSunday 1 October 5pm – 7pm Civic Park

In this temporary activation, mosquito coils are burnt at dusk as part of a ritual exploring lost connections to nature.

Marisa Georgiou

ONCE MORE WITH FEELINGSunday 1 October 6pm – 9pm Watt Space Gallery

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Buffy The Vampire Slayer with an interactive sing-along spectacular celebrating the classic musical episode.

Patricia Pender

THREE-PAGE STORYTuesday 26 September – Thursday 28 September 10am – 5pm TAFE NSW Hunter Street

Ex-student of Newcastle Art School, Stephanie Gobor initiates an exhibition involving collaboration between art students and creative writers.

Exhibition opening Thursday 28 September 2pm – 4pm

TAFE NSW Hunter Street students and writers Curated by Stephanie Gobor

CO•–ST•–L W•–VE TR•–NSL•–TORThursday 28 September – Sunday 1 October 10am – 5pm Newcastle Museum – Workshop Way Forecourt

A live sound installation converting wave data collected from buoys near Australia’s offshore detention centres into an unrepentant, face-melting siren.

Kynan Tan Devon Ward

STICKER PROTESTThursday 28 September – Sunday 1 October 10am – 5pm Roving through different locations

Visual artist Nina Ross invites audiences to engage with ongoing issues of fair pay for artists through a playful sticker protest in unexpected locations throughout the festival.

Nina Ross

SADISCOThursday 28 September – Friday 29 September 10am – 5pm See online program

Conflating sad, sadism and disco, SADISCO explores an excruciating fusion of pleasure with politics, singing with liberation, glitter with guts.

Ingrid Stiertzel Jane Polkinghorne

SPECULATIVE MEMORIES: PART #4 THE OBJECTORIUMThursday 28 September – Sunday 1 October 7pm – 10pm University House Loading Dock

This interactive digital piece investigates notions of personal and public memory. This work looks at ideas of distortion, identity, control and social construction.

Kate Cross

CRITICAL ANIMALS CREATIVE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM 2017CRITICISM IN ACTION

28 SEPTEMBER – 1 OCTOBER

EVENTS

THE SHAPE OF MEMORYCritical Animals Official Exhibition presented in partnership with The Lock-Up

Thursday 28 September – Sunday 15 October The Lock-Up

EXHIBITION OPENINGSaturday 30 September 4pm – 7pm

Zainab Hikmet Consuelo Cavaniglia Elise Harmsen Mohini Chandra Dean Cross Annelies Jahn Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano

Curated by Talia Smith.

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