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EVENTS: OCTOBER EXHIBITION LAUNCH DAY

7 Oct 2017 | 1.00pm - 4.00pm

We invite you to come and join us as we showcase the latest season of exhibitions at Casula Powerhouse. We're launching five amazing shows, which speak to the experiences of our multicultural community.Bellbird's Cordon-Bleu trained Head Chef, Federico Rekowski will be creating delicious, FREE refreshments that will enhance your exhibition viewing experience. Our October Exhibition Launch Day will be Auslan-interpreted.

Al'Jaale'ah: Locally Global

Al Jaale'ah: locally global is a community and cultural engagement program by artist, Shireen Taweel with an exhibition outcome influenced by young Islamic women from Secondary schools in the Liverpool region. This program provides a safe place for young Islamic women to share stories and learn creative skills.

Shireen Taweel is a local artist currently based at the Parramatta Artist Studios. Her creative practice continues a long tradition that involves the act of marking and piercing copper. This process stretches throughout history and across cultures, but is infinitely connected to Taweel’s contemporary experience of being a migrant of Muslim and Lebanese heritage living in Australia.

The gestures that Taweel etches into copper are suggestive of an art form steeped in tradition, but is explored through new perspectives, placing emphasis on the global experience of migration, movement and multiculturalism. The resulting works contribute to a cross-cultural discourse of shared histories and experiences between diverse communities and cultural groups.

Taweel hosted a number of workshops with young Islamic women from local secondary schools to present this new body of works for the Al’Jaale’ah: locally global exhibition in the Marsden Gallery at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre. Students will be asked to share stories around the idea of identity, belonging, sacred places and the nature of cross-cultural experiences within the greater community of Western Sydney. Students drew patterns with Taweel that are representative of their story. These patterns were transferred by the artist into sheet copper through the process of metal piercing and are presented in this exhibition.


Faith

Coordinated by Orana Arts and in partnership with Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Faith presents newly commissioned works by participating artists from the Left Field Project – a long-term community and cultural engagement initiative that has supported the professional development of emerging contemporary Aboriginal artists from the Dubbo region. Throughout this process, these artists have been mentored by established artists and curators including Karla Dickens, Blak Douglas, Jason Wing, R E A, Jonathon Jones, Nicole Monks, Chico Monks,  Emily McDaniel and Khaled Sabsabi in order to gain confidence and trust in their practice. Since the establishment of the Left Field Project three years ago, this exhibition will be the first time for some of these artists to produce works independent of and beside their mentors as equals for a group exhibition.

In response to Faith as a person and faith as a concept, the artists will present newly commissioned works that speak of their lived experiences since this landmark event in Australian political, social and cultural history.
Curated by Adam Porter and Orana Arts


Have you seen MY Emily?

Have you seen MY Emily? is the first institutional exhibition by Wiradjuri conceptual artist, Amala Groom. Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre has commissioned the artist to develop and present a 6-channel digital video work where Groom performs an extended conversation between herself and the wife of a former Prime Minister in a stately Manhattan home.

Based upon an actual conversation, the work seeks to expand upon the language of ownership and authority surrounding western perceptions of Aboriginal art and culture, unveiling the indistinct nuances of interpretation and the potentially shocking hidden truths that language can possess.

Re-imagining the conversation and the behaviours of both parties, Groom unpacks what was said, what was imagined to be said, and what it could have really meant.
Curated by Adam Porter 
Filming supported by CuriousWorks. 
Artwork Loan Courtesy of Simon Chan – Art Atrium.


The Motion Room

The Motion Room presents the results to date from an ongoing project that investigates, supports, and works to increase community control over everyday life in Green Valley, Liverpool, and in central Fairfield.

Through inquiry, listening, experimentation and testing new ideas alongside local people, The Motion Room is guided by the question: what would make life easier or better for you?

The Motion Room is an ongoing experiment, drawing heavily on the arts and design, to find ways for local people to shape their own tomorrow by addressing challenges of food security; transport disadvantage; digital inclusion; and community safety.

Think+DO Tank Foundation and the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre are excited to present The Motion Room exhibition. It features works made by women and young people living in the Green Valley and broader Liverpool communities in collaboration with; Katie Green, Province Studio (Anne-Louise Dadak & Laura Pike), Joey Ruigrok van der Werven, Monica Kumar, Luke Cignarella, Afaf Al-Shammari, Jane Stratton, Pia Larsen, Janet Parker-Smith, Annie McKinnon, Claudia Chidiac, Dominique Hage, Kim Siew, Nicole Barakat, Stephanie Peters, Hepa Taahi, Cabinet of Wonder (Tim Jetis), and Velinda Wardell.

The Motion Room is a collaborative and long-term project that Think+DO Tank Foundation brokers with a range of partners and supporters, each of whom  is specifically acknowledged and recognised throughout this exhibition to highlight their connection and importance to each project. However, we make special mention of our consortium partners Liverpool Women’s Resource Centre, Western Sydney Migrant Resource Centre, South West Sydney Local Health District and Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre.


Home Work

When does a space become a place? What makes a place a home? Accompanying the exhibition Near x Far, which examines Western Sydney as a creative home to a growing group of artists, Home Work presents a series of large scale maps and building elements as a creative blueprint. Home Work presents you with a landscape that is ready for you to move into. Come find your place and create your own space in an exhibition where familiarity and fantasy are here, there and everywhere, in everything and everyone.

The Kids Gallery is curated to provide a year-round integrated visual learning environment in relation to the main exhibition programs at Casula Powerhouse Liverpool. The gallery features a range of interactive environments that encourage children and adults alike to investigate major themes or key aspects of artworks on display. The Kids Gallery provides an accessible space dedicated to the development of visual thinking.

Event Information

LocationCasula Powerhouse
Arts Centre

Duration4 hrs

AgesAll ages

CostFree


Phone02 8711 7123

Emailreception@casulapowerhouse.com

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