Category: Live

  • Old Media Orchestra, 2020 & 2021

    This project involved inviting Canberra people to come along and help create the ‘living mural of 1970s media’. You can check that out on Instagram but you won’t see too much more than the screen shot you’re seeing above.

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    Louise Curham and Richard Johnson at the Drill Hall Gallery Feb 2021 perform as Old Media Orchestra in SoundOut, the festival of new and experimental music that Richard runs each year in Canberra.

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    Louise brought together the Old Media Orchestra for Art Not Apart March 2020 in Canberra at the National Film and Sound Archive. Tracey Benson made a new video work for the event. Other artists included Martyn Jolly. Support was provided by Rhys Butler, Sally Golding and Deirdre Feeney.

  • Pararaha

    Pararaha

    Curham, L (film artist). (2010). Pararaha [motion picture film] Australia: commissioned for ‘Soak’ in the Melbourne International Arts Festival, Spence, A (composer),  Australian Art Orchestra (performers).

    Premier MIAF, 2010, Melbourne Recital Centre, 9 October.

    2013: Lines of Flight, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Johnson H (piano), 21 March.

    2013: BBC Jazz on 3, Blunt, A (violin), Corringham, V (voice).

  • Two Screen film

    Two Screen film

     

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    Curham, L. (2005). Two Screen Film. [Moving image performance]. Sydney: NowNow.

    Additional performances:

    2005 Sydney: Realtime 10th Birthday

    2006 Sydney: NowNow with Splinter Orchestra

    2007 Sydney: NowNow with Natasha Anderson and Amanda Stewart

    2006 Wellington, NZ: Wellington International Jazz Festival with Mike Cooper

    2006 Wellington: NZ Film Archive with Jeff Henderson

    2007 Yokohama: BankArt 1929

    What is Music with Loop Orchestra, 2007

    Darlington School with Loop Orchestra, 2007

    2008 Festival of Live Art, Performance Space with Keg De Souza

    2008 Otherfilm Festival

    2009 NowNow with Anthony Pateras, Dave Brown and Sean Baxter

    2009 Clocked Out at the NFSA

    2009 Frames per Second in the NZ International Film Festival, St Paul’s Gallery, Auckland with Jeff Henderson

    2009 Otherfilm Festival with Erik Griswold

    Fit launch with Al Spence

    2010 Jazz Visions with Alister Spence Trio

    2012 SoundOut with Jeff Henderson and Hermione Johnson

    2013 SoundOut with Viv Corringham

    2013 Unconscious Archives, Café Oto London with Alison Blunt

     

  • Smack Bang

    Festival at Red Rattler, Marrickville c. 2010, performance with Alister Spence. This festival featured a fantastic talk by David Stratton.

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  • (Wo)Man With Mirror

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    2009: ‘Imprint’ at Artspace, Sydney, exhibition 3 July to 1 August.

    2012: MCA, Sydney. Event 2 Nov.

    2013: Parlour performance event, 13 Rooms, Kaldor Contemporary Art Projects. Event April 19.

    2013: Critical Path, Sydney. Artists’ Salon: Moving Image. Event 2 May.

    2013: Unconscious Archives, Apiary Studios, London. Event 18 June.

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  • Conimbla

    Conimbla

    Curham, L (film artist), Young D (composer) (2007). Conimbla [motion picture film]. Australia: Aphids Events

    2007 Val Camonica Pieces, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne

    Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions 2009, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography

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  • Long Film for Ambient Light

    Long Film for Ambient Light

    Curham, L & Ihlein, M. (2007). Re-enactment of ‘Long Film for Ambient Light’ [installation]. Sydney: Performance Space

    As part of residency at Performance Space.

    In 2007 Teaching and Learning Cinema (Lucas Ihlein and me) restaged/re-enacted/ re-did Anthony McCall’s piece from 1975 at Performance Space at Carriageworks – TLC website has all the details here 

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  • NowNow festivals 2006-7; 2009

    NowNow festivals 2006-7; 2009

    Curham, L. Film performance with various sound artists and musicians. NowNow festivals, Sydney and Blue Mountains.