Australian experimental curatorial platform Prototype has announced a new three-month season Prototype 2021 featuring nine new short works – including eight world premieres – by 10 international and Australian artists, filmmakers and collectives. Continuing Prototype’s work redefining the presentation of video art outside the traditional gallery space, this program releases a new short film or moving image weekly, every Wednesday, from 28 April until 23 June 2021.  Works will be published online and issued direct to Prototype subscribers via a free e-newsletter.

Alongside the core digital presentation, a number of in-person screenings of the newly released works will be presented at Melbourne’s ACMI during the three-month season, including the Prototype 2021 launch event on Tuesday 27 April 2021. This ticketed event features a panel discussion with curator Lauren Carroll Harris and acclaimed Australian filmmaker Samantha Lang, alongside an exclusive in-person premiere screening of Lang’s work Brown Lake and works from Prototype’s archive by UK-based Sam Smith and acclaimed Canberra documentary-maker Robert Nugent.

Image: Pilar Mata Dupont, La Maruja 2021, video still. Courtesy of the artist and Prototype.

Carriageworks, one of Australia’s largest multi-arts precincts, has today unveiled NO SHOW, a three-week presentation of projects by 11 artist-led initiatives from across NSW. Presented with the support of the NSW Government through Create NSW, NO SHOW features the work of more than 50 largely early-career  Australian artists and writers. NO SHOW will take over the Carriageworks Public Space and Bay 19 from 12 February until 7 March 2021 with a constantly evolving display of art installations, screenings, performances and writer residencies.
Developed by Carriageworks curator Aarna Hanley and presented free to the public, NO SHOW highlights the activities of artist-run spaces, cooperatives, digital platforms, online publications and studios in NSW, each presenting an independent program across the three weeks. Based locally, regionally and online, the invited organisations are ANKLES, Boomalli, Firstdraft, KNULP, Our Neon Foe, newly established Pari in Western Sydney, Prototype, digital publications Running Dog and Runway Journal, Studio A, and new regional initiative WAYOUT Artspace.

Image:Left to Right: Mehmet Mevlütoğlu, ‘Area Drip 2 (Safety BB)’, 2021 and Feras Shaheen, ‘Cross Cultures’, 2020 for Pari. Installation view ‘No Show’, 2021, Carriageworks. Photo credit Zan Wimberley

UTS Gallery will present a survey exhibition of work by celebrated artist Hayley Millar Baker titled There we were all in one place from 13 April – 14 June 2021. The exhibition includes 35 works spanning five photographic series produced between 2016 until 2019 that are being presented together for the first time. Almost exclusively in black and white, the photographs use historical reappropriation and citation, together with intricate digital editing and archival research, to consider human experiences of time, memory and place.

Image credit: Hayley Millar Baker, Untitled 8 (I’m the Captain Now), 2016, 20 x 20 cm, inkjet on cotton rag. Courtesy the artist and Vivien Anderson Gallery.

The Powerhouse Museum’s 2021 exhibition program will be presented in the Museum at Ultimo under the direction of Chief Executive Lisa Havilah.

The program includes 12 new exhibitions celebrating the Museum’s world-class collection of more than 500,000 objects, as well as international collaborations, Australian exclusives, new commissions and never before seen objects.

Image: Bayram Ali, Snowy Mountains, Hydro-Electric Scheme, Powerhouse Collection

DESIGN Canberra has announced the theme of ‘Transformation’ for its eighth annual festival to be presented from 8 – 28 November 2021. The Festival is now calling out for leading architecture, design and craft initiatives to participate in the three-week Festival that celebrates Canberra as a global city of design and a living design laboratory. Past Festivals have included work by acclaimed international designers such as Kengo Kuma, pictured with his work at the Festival in 2019.

See HERE for more detail and to apply.

Photo by Andrew Sikorski