Bubble & Squeak

Rob and Eric are having a show. So come along folks. It'll be a blast!

CoFAtopia interview

So CoFAtopia, the CoFA Arc student zine, asked Eric and I to answer some questions about the Teddy exhibition. And we did.

Click it to Big it:

TBP Reviewed

Teddy Bears' Picnic just received a class review written by the lovely Clare of the Punk Monk collective. Have a little look-see at her blog here

Stuff Paddington Bear

Teddy Bears' Picnic went down a treat...

Teddy Bears' Picnic

Enthusiasts Afternoons Begin

Yes we are having our first official Enthusiasts Afternoon!

This month features: Lasse Hallstrom's 'My Life as a Dog' enthusiasm by Caiti Dircks!

Wear your best lounging jodphurs and bring some nibblies to sustain that eager beaverness.

Please note that nonchalance will be not be tolerated.

Meeting the Demands of a Long Space Flight

...and then everyone felt pretty damn good

Well, Cosmic Peephole was a dazzling success!

With a stunningly sultry perfromance by Kathleen and the Kids, 16 artworks climbing the walls of our tiny studio, and many more glowing faces peering up at them (or down if you were looking at nicolas cage), the night was pretty rad.

Thanks everyone that put works into the show and thanks Pete for playing and thanks everyone that came to see it, especially alex who ran all the way from cockatoo island!

... more pics up soon.

More merriness in the months to come!

xx

Dreaming of Ice Creaming

Still from Glamour Antarctica by Haidee Ireland

(Rob getting into the exhibition zone)

Cosmic Peephole

Yes yes we are having an exhibition and performance night finally! Come along for drinks and music and art and plastic carpet...

Drinks afterwards at the Cricketers Arms on Fitzroy st. All welcome!

Here's a nifty map!

july july and pudding pie

OK kids we've got some tasty things in the works.

There's a whole host of events being planned at spacespace for the upcoming months.

Cosmic Peephole

We've got an exhibition and performance night coming up in a few weeks that'll feature some ruminative experimental music complete with psychedelic underwater visuals to get everyone climbing through the pillow stuffing of their minds... as well as some classy artworks we've all been working hard on over the last few months... i'll do a proper post on this soon with all the details!

Enthusiast Nights

We've also got some enthusiasts nights up our sleeves. They'll be a series of experiential evenings, lectures and screenings, each hosted by a different individual who will enlighten the rest of us with something they truly believe in. Films, music/video mashes, short lectures on random historical facts, the joy of bicycle riding etc. more info soon... oh and if you want to host an evening then just email us.

there are also a few other ideas that will hopefully simmer down into something tangible soon... we'll see.

galloop! x

Glamour Antarctica

It's a wonderful time to be alive.
The sun is shining and Glamour has reached Antarctica:

A Jesuit scientist was recently in Antarctica looking for meteorites. Instead of finding meteorites, he conveniently found God. It is a devastating realisation that the absence of any direct and sustained contact with the continent could indeed be a chief reason why we are out of touch with God these days. However, the humble kitchen freezer could prove a convenient and effective surrogate:

something like this might need to occur:

The glamourous milky nipple of the world awaits us!

Sweet and Moist

Well the bake sale fundraiser we had on the weekend went pretty damn well! The mountains of muffins and slices and brownies and scones and biccies that everyone brought along were yummed up in no time.

Rehearsals for the All-Girls Magnetic Fields Choir got underway and perhaps even drew a few extra punters with our hauntingly evocative rendition of 100000 fireflies.

Rob's Everything Will be Alright zine (check out The Avocado Moshpit) sold well and reinforced our need to make a snazzy zine rack for future events.

And even though only one person bought a cup of the homemade ginger-ale (admittedly marketing it as Monster Bile was not that enticing) the day was a success! We raised about 10 million dollars to fund our next event so it looks like we better start planning something....

Moonbox Benjamin: An Interstellar Symphony

Alien births, symphonic eruptions, vinyl couch aphrodisiacs, intergallactic battles between good and evil... and Prince!

Our very first event was the DIY Movie Afternoon, held on March 14, 2009. It was essentially an experiment in community based DIY movie making and an excuse to enjoy the experience of creating and watching a movie as a community and not as a consumer.

Following the BKR protocol developed by Michel Gondry, 19 of us packed into the tiny headquarters and worked together to create a movie from scratch in two and a half hours.

No preplanned ideas were allowed, although each participant was encouraged to bring a prop along. In two 45 minute workshops the group democratically voted on each aspect of the movie's creation. Genre was decided upon first, and from that a title for the movie was chosen. Plot lines were then brainstormed and composed into scenes. With 19 people this was no small feat to accomplish within the time-restraints.

With the skeleton of our movie mapped out, we were allowed only 1 hour to film the entire movie. Everyone had to appear at least once on screen. Scenes were shot in sequence and in single takes. This was deliberately done to avoid perfectionism, as perfectionism is the enemy of creativity!

We successfully managed to complete our filming with 1 minute to spare and ended the afternoon with our own private screening of our freshly completed movie 'Moonbox Benjamin: An Interstellar Symphony'.

It begins...

OK now things are getting a bit more organised...

Since our art space seems to have unintentionally landed this name we may as well keep it. And since we now have a name I figured we should have a blog to document and inform folks about our enchanting little oblong box of fun. OH wonders wonders!

Welcome to the space|space blog!

It's like outta space, but better. morebetter in fact.