Civilization: The Way We Live Now at Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia

Exhibition opens 13 Sep 2019 and runs until 2 Feb 2020.

Civilization: The Way We Live Now is an international photography exhibition of monumental scale, featuring the work of over 100 contemporary photographers from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe with over 200 original photographs being exhibited.

In this increasingly globalised world, the exhibition explores photographers’ representations of life in cities as its key theme and presents a journey through the shared aspects of life in the urban environment. The selected works create a picture of collective life around the world and document patterns of mass behaviour. The exhibition looks at the phenomenal complexity of life in the twenty-first century and reflects on the ways in which photographers have documented, and held a mirror up, to the world around us.

A major publication is being produced by Thames & Hudson in parallel with the exhibition.

Open 10am-5pm daily.

For tickets [$10 – $18] and information click HERE

Kaws: Companionship in the Age of Loneliness at NGV International.

Exhibition opens 20 Sep 2019 and runs until 13 Apr 2020.

Open 10am–5pm daily.

Tickets and more information HERE –

In an Australian first, this exhibition is a comprehensive survey of 25 years of the oeuvre of the New York artist known as Kaws, full of humour, hope and humanity, celebrating his ability to connect with broad audiences.

The full range of Kaws’ artistic output will be on display, featuring more than 100 works including iconic paintings reappropriating pop-culture figures to his more recent large-scale abstract works, and an impressive collection of his celebrated sculptural figures.

Kaws engages with universal feelings of isolation and loneliness through his works, in reaction to the turbulent world we live in today. His larger-than-life sculptures are playful, toy-like figures. However, at a closer look, they reveal a fragility and darkness in the vulnerable poses of the characters.

Brian Donnelly (born 1974), aka KAWS, is one of the most prominent and prolific artists of his generation. His body of work straddles the worlds of art and design to include paintings, murals, large-scale sculptures, street and public art, and graphic and product design. His work is infused with humour, humanity and affection for our times. Admired for his larger-than-life sculptures and colour-filled paintings, KAWS’s cast of hybrid cartoon and human characters are drawn from pop-culture animations and form a distinctive artistic vocabulary.

Petrina Hicks: Bleached Gothic is the first major survey exhibition of photographer Petrina Hicks. Over her fifteen-year career, Hicks has gained a strong reputation for her large-scale, hyperreal photographs that subvert and disrupt the photographic language of advertising and portraiture. Hicks photographs children, animals and young women against simple backgrounds, returning to the same models and motifs frequently to define and hone her distinctive style.

Hicks’s photographs are notable for their duality; pristine and benign at first glance, the works are undercut with a sense of the uncanny. The tension between seduction and danger, familiarity and strangeness, intimacy and distance are present in many of Hicks’s works, which are rich with mythological and historical symbolism.

Petrina Hicks: Bleached Gothic includes more than fifty photographs and video works spanning the period 2003 to 2019. Seen together for the first time, Hicks’s shimmering, enigmatic and surreal compositions convey the inherent ambiguity and complexity of the female experience. At a time when issues of gender and representation are more culturally relevant than ever before, Hicks’s photographs interrogate the cultural and visual representation of women and children in contemporary society and throughout history.

The NGV is publishing a monograph to coincide with the exhibition, detailing the artist’s work to date.

Petrina Hicks: Bleached Gothic at Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia

Exhibition opens 27 Sep 2019 and runs until 29 Mar 2020.

Open 10am-5pm daily. Entry is Free

Click here for more information

KEITH HARING | JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

CROSSING LINES

In an unprecedented, world premiere exhibition, the National Gallery of Victoria presents the work of two of the most significant and influential artists of the late 20th century. Exclusive to Melbourne, the exhibition offers new and fascinating insights into the artists’ unique visual languages and reveals, for the first time, the many intersections between their lives, practices and ideas. The exhibition surveys each artist’s tragically short, yet prolific career through more than 300 artworks, including works created in public spaces, painting, sculpture, objects, works on paper, photographs and more.

Exhibition opens 1 Dec 2019 and runs until 13 Apr 2020.

Open 10am–5pm daily.

Click HERE For tickets and more information

Afrocan Deep returns Friday Jan 31 and we are excited to present South Africa’s Enoo Napa for another night of deep afro-influenced house music & dance! The last 12 months has seen Enoo Napa headline alongside the likes of Black Coffee, Da Capo & Themba throughout Africa in addition to an extensive European summer schedule plus a quality set of releases including ‘Just Beat & a remix of Portia Monique’s ‘Grace’. Go deep with us as we bring the bass, turn up the music and all you have to do is bring the dance. Supported by Chris NG, Datboy, Yenzi, Leo Guardo & Pasca. Tickets are available via Eventbrite.

ENOO NAPA (Durban, SA)

Siphiwe Mkhize, better known as Enoo Napa, is a self taught producer from the
township of Umlazi, Durban in KwaZulu Natal. After taking up production in 2013, his
remix of Jackie Queen’s “Conqueror”, an ambient, dark afro sound with a hint of techy
synths, caught the attention of Black Coffee in early 2015. In a short space of time, his
productions have blazed a trail to the sets of prominent DJs worldwide and earned him
the 17th spot on the Traxsource Top 100 Afro House producers of 2016.

His quick ascent was no small feat. Enoo Napa quit his job as a CCTV operator to
pursue music full time. Challenging himself to the busiest year of his career to date, he
produced 15 remixes and 12 originals within 18 months. These included “High in Your
Love” featuring Durban vocalist Zipho which made an appearance on Dj Mbuso’s
Phezulu Selection Vol 4. As well as “Uprising” a collaboration with DJ Shimza released
on Shimza’s One Man Show EP through Soulistic Music Records.

Now one of the most prolific young house music producers in South Africa, Enoo Napa
has remixed for Black Coffee, N’dinga Gaba, Mi Casa, Oscar P, King Sfiso, DJ Merlon
and continues to put out heavy, raw afro, electronic infused cuts on various well
recognised international labels; MoBlack, Offering Recordings, Aluku Records and
many others.

Afrocan Deep presents
Enoo Napa (Durban, SA)
Fri Jan 31
Seven – 52 Albert Road South Melbourne
9.30 till late
Support: Chris NG, Datboy, Yenzi, Leo Guardo, Pasca
18 event
Presale tickets via Eventbrite
$25 bf presale
$15 limited presale
remaining tickets $25 at the door

Eventbrite Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/afrocan-deep-presents-enoo-napa-durban-sa-tickets-86307174081
Facebook: www.facebook.com/EnooNapaSA
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5KPid3HkjjnBN4PeUqllHC

After headlining clubs & festivals across Australia, Market Memories bring to you their first solo show with an exciting new concept.

Bourke St Courtyard, with its brand new custom d&b system, will be turned into the stage for the first Market vs Memories show. The concept revolves around Sean and Oliver both having their own separate console – this means 6 cdi’s & 2 mixers – all set up in a 360 degree boiler room set up.

Support from Melbourne’s finest in:
Bec Grenfell
Brian Fantana
Steve Bleas

Tickets on sale next Tuesday 17/12 – make sure you click interested / going to stay in the loop for further announcements!

(If you pre-registered for this event please check your email or send us a personal message – we have a present for you)

Submit to machine funk – Feel the voltage.

Melbourne’s new home of dystopian electro grooves and space age breakbeat power.

Your selectors for the evening, A-Z:
Hedchef [UK – Circular Jaw]
Rhythmic Shift Collective [Blasé Bandit, Encrypter & Maphemist]
Shadow [DJ BØN & Human Condition]
Tom Williamson [Voltage]
Zerotonine [KISS FM, Laser Highway]

At Voltage we play:
Old-school futuristic electro //Breaks // Acid // EBM //
Old-school rave breakbeat hardcore // // UK funky hard drum // Fun, heavy, grooved-out machine music for dancing.

10pm till late – $10 adv HERE, $15 otd

BABYLON ~ a music and lifestyle festival deep in the heart of the Australian Wilderness

Friday Feb 21 – Sunday Feb 23
Carapooee West, Victoria

Across three magical days (Friday Feb 21st – Sunday Feb 23rd) Babylon returns for its 4th year with a collection of breathtaking international and local music acts; from techno & house to psytrance, magnificently orchestrated to create a spectacular visual and audio sensory experience.
A festival where attendees travel to from all over the world, not only for music but for the unparalleled world of visual art, freedom of expression and mindfulness, that is the entirety of the Australian Bush-doof experience. Offering a vibrant atmosphere, revellers can meander through the Marketplace & Food Village, participate in a variety of Workshops, and be free to explore their own sense of self and
self-expression.

BABYLON 2020 LINEUP
Ace Ventura
Alan Fitzpatrick
Andhim
Ann Clue
CAP
Carl Cox
Christopher Coe
Cosmic Boys
Culprate
D-Formation
Dickster
E-Clip
Eat Static
Enzo Siragusa
Flip Flop
Haywyre
Headroom
Hidden Empire
Jeremy Olander
Kasper Koman
Koan Sound
Lauren Lo Sung
Mees Salomé
Menog
Misstress Barbara
Pan-Pot
Priku
Quivver
Reinier Zonneveld
SIT
Skyfall
Smokesign
Spektre
Stan Kolev
Talpa
The Illustrious Blacks
The Librarian
Thomas Schumacher
Tongue & Groove

BABYLON Tickets: ON SALE NOW | CLICK HERE

First release tickets start at $269.95+BF.

Early Access tickets start at $60+BF per person
Our early access ticket allows entry to the event from the 20th of Feb, which will allow for premium campsite selection and the beginning of our musical programme for the weekend.

In order to provide a more sustainable event, car-pooling & taking the Babylon Bus is further encouraged with car park passes on sale for $25+BF and are available at ticket point of purchase.

www.babylon.net.au