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Art After Hours 
BIENNALE PROGRAM 16 JUNE - 21 JULY 2004

Explore, engage, experience the Biennale of Sydney After Hours at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

To celebrate the 14th Biennale of Sydney, Art After Hours, the Gallery's Wednesday evening events program, gives visitors the chance to engage with the contemporary and confront the controversial with talks, films, live music and art until 9pm.

From 16 June until 21 July, speakers such as the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, Sydney Morning Herald Good Weekend 'Modern Guru', Moyer Sayer Jones and Science Professor Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, discuss the reasonable and the emotional in this year's Biennale in entertaining and thought provoking talks in the Gallery�s Central Court.

Following the talks visitors can...

View a free film from the Biennale inspired program South, compiled by Gallery film curator Robert Herbert. Borders, migration and boundaries constitute the central themes of these films, which are nominally set in the 'south', and offer a sense of our culture's limits and demarcations. Highlights include Treasures of the Sierra Madre 1948 (dir: John Huston), Touch of the Evil 1958 (Dir: Orson Welles) and That Obscure Object of Desire 1977 (Dir: Luis Bu�uel)

Enjoy a glass of wine and the contemporary menu at the ArtBar. FBi 94.5FM DJs add to the ambience with live mixes of experimental, contempo and jazz infused sounds from 7pm. A great location to absorb the night view of Woolloomooloo.

Experience the Art. See some extraordinary uses of the Gallery to display art as it grows from floors (in the form of polka dots of synthetic hair by Japanese artist Emiko Kasahara), or breaks through walls (Melbourne's Carolyn Eskdale's metallic structures pierce through a window to reach the Gallery's exterior surroundings). Free guided tours take visitors through the Biennale of Sydney exhibits at 7.30pm. General collection and other temporary exhibitions are also on view until 9pm.


All Art After Hours events free of charge. Entry fees apply for some exhibitions.

Art After Hours
Biennale Program
16 June 2004 - 21 July 2004
 

Elizabeth FarrellyWEDNESDAY 16 JUNE
6.30pm
Visible Cities: fear & transparency in urban space Elizabeth Farrelly, architecture writer & critic, SMH columnist
7pm FBi 94.5fm DJ Simon Bell performs live mixes in the ArtBar
7.15pm Touch Of Evil (Dir: Orson Welles), 1958. 112 min., 35mm, B&W, Rated PG
7.30pm Guided tour of the Biennale of Sydney exhibits

Dr Karl KruszelnickiWEDNESDAY 23 JUNE
6.30pm
A Bizarre Case of the Mind/Body Split Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, Julius Sumner Miller Fellow, University of Sydney
7pm FBi 94.5fm DJ Tes Ross performs live mixes in the ArtBar
7.15pm Central Station (Dir: Walter Salles) 1998. 113 min., 35mm, Colour Rated MA15+
7.30pm Guided tour of the Biennale of Sydney exhibits

WEDNESDAY 30 JUNE
6.30pm It feels Real Catharine Lumby, Associate Professor of Media, University of Sydney
7pm FBi 94.5fm DJ Lorna Clarkson performs live mixes in the ArtBar
7.15pm Volcano: An Inquiry Into The Life And Death Of Malcolm Lowry (Dir: Donald Brittain) 1976. 97 min., 16mm, Colour, Rated PG.
7.30pm Guided tour of the Biennale of Sydney exhibits

WEDNESDAY 7 JULY
6.30pm Rational North meets Emotional South, A Scottish Perspective on the Biennale. Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, Director, Museum of Contemporary Art
7pm FBi 94.5fm DJ Jessica Joy performs live mixes in the ArtBar
7.15pm The Tracker (Dir: Rolf de Heer), 2002. 98 min., 35mm, Colour Rated M
7.30pm Guided tour of the Biennale of Sydney exhibits

Jean KittsonWEDNESDAY 14 JULY
6.30pm Welcome to My Ark Jean Kittson, writer and comedian
7pm FBi 94.5fm DJ Georgie and Paris performs live mixes in the ArtBar
7.15pm La Habanera (Dir: Detlef Sierck) 1937 100 min., 16mm, B&W, Rated PG
7.30pm Guided tour of the Biennale of Sydney exhibits


Moya Sayer-JonesWEDNESDAY 21 JULY

6.30pm Is it reasonable to be emotional? Moya Sayer-Jones, author & Sydney Morning Herald Good Weekend 'Modern Guru'.
7pm FBi 94.5fm DJ Nicholas Boyakovsky performs live mixes in the ArtBar
7.15pm Happy Together (Dir: Wong Kar-Wai) 1997, 96 min., 35mm, Colour Rated MA15+
7.30pm Guided tour of the Biennale of Sydney exhibits


Exhibitions on View
Biennale of Sydney, 4 June - 15 August
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, 14 May - 11 July
Australian Postwar Photodocumentary, 12 June - 8 August
James Angus, 19 June - 15 August
Indian Folk Paintings and Textiles 29 May - 4 July

Art After Hours - Every Wednesday 5pm - 9pm
www.artafterhours.com.au
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Media Information - Art After Hours
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Telephone (02) 9225 1618
Email margauxs@ag.nsw.gov.au

Image: Helena Almeida Estudo para um enriquemento interior 1977 (detail). Colleccion CGAC, Santiago De Compostela. Photo: Artur Rosa.