The ACP opens a show next week that I curated with Malcolm Smith called

BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED.

Ben Barretto
Martin Bell
The Changes
Marley Dawson
Ross Manning
Spat + Loogie
Paul Winkler
& Jonathan Zawada

The blurb reads:
Environments that encourage experimentation and risk-taking are often where the most interesting new ideas can be found. In these spaces, unlikely unions produce curious crossbreeds that defy easy classification.

Batteries Not Included at the Australian Centre for Photography presents the work of 12 artists investigating the hybrid offspring of photomedia; splicing photography with performance, reanimating found images or mechanising the moving image.

With backgrounds and influences as diverse as fashion, street culture, education, new and old technologies and telemarketing, the artists in this exhibition come from the fringes of contemporary visual art practice. With their appetite for risk-taking, experimentalism and disregard of convention, this selection of artists combines the fresh and energetic work of emerging artists with the ground-breaking work of legendary avant guard filmmaker Paul Winkler.

Get down there on Thursday the 29th January from 6 – 8pm

Musical performances from:
Jeff Burch + Max Doyle
Ross Manning

Australian Centre for Photography
257 Oxford Street, Paddington NSW 2021 Sydney
www.acp.org.au

The Changes

Ben Barretto

Ross Manning

Jonathan Zawada

Paul Winkler

Spat + Loogie

Marley Dawson

Martin Bell

Here is the official invite with the other shows that will open the same night