David Chesworth
Richter/
MeinhofOpera
Australia
World Premiere
After a Libretto by Tony
MacGregor
Richter/Meinhof-Opera entangles art with politics,
the real with the ritualised and the personal with
the State.
Presented by Melbourne International Arts
Festival, Wax Sound Media and Australian Centre
for Contemporary Art
WARNING Adult Themes
What happens when the German
artist Gerhard Richter and the
jailed journalist turned terrorist
Ulrike Meinhof are placed in the
same room?
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The latest performance work from artist David
Chesworth is an evocative exploration of the
limits of representation and direct action.
Richter/Meinhof-Opera has its origins in the
controversial painting series 'October 18, 1977'
by Gerhard Richter. The paintings depict scenes
surrounding the apparent suicides of jailed
members of the notorious Baader/Meinhof
Group, responsible for a deadly campaign
to overthrow the West German establishment.
Derived from archival newspaper photographs,
the paintings caused a sensation when first
exhibited in Germany in 1989.
Please Note: Seating is limited
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art,
Foyer
Various
mortality
Melbourne Exclusive
Presented by Melbourne International Arts Festival
and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Thu 14 & Fri 15 Oct at 7pm and 8.30pm
Sat 16 Oct at 8pm and 9.30pm
45min no interval
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Supported by Arts Victoria
Image: AAP/AP
Drawing on the writings of both Richter and
Meinhof and records of actual events, this
intimate performance artwork is set to a series
of compelling soundscapes by Chesworth.
Nathan Coley
Heaven Is A Place Where
Nothing Ever Happens
Presented by Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
in association with Melbourne International Arts Festival
UK
Australian Premiere
As Peggy Lee would say, ‘Is that all there is,
is that all there is’.
Scottish artist and Turner prize nominee, Nathan
Coley will erect his famous message sculpture
Heaven Is A Place Where Nothing Ever Happens
on the ACCA Forecourt. The sign evokes
religious roadside architecture conjoined with
retro fairground aesthetics. Its message is open
to a range of readings, both reassuring and
unsettling, but is ultimately no salve for our
existential angst.
Exhibiting artists include:
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Tacita Dean, an acclaimed British artist who
works in film and drawing and has shown at
Milan’s Fondazione Trussardi and at DIA Beacon,
New York.
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art,
Forecourt
111 Sturt St, Southbank
Anastasia Klose, one of Australia’s most exciting
young video artists whose works also include
performance and installation.
Thu 7 Oct – Dec
24 hours a day
TV Moore, an Australian artist who completed
his studies in Finland and the United States and
who has shown extensively in Sydney, Melbourne
and overseas.
FREE
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Commissioned for the Folkestone Triennial 2008
A commission by ACCA in collaboration with the City of Melbourne's Public
Art Program
Image: Nathan Coley, Heaven Is A Place Where Nothing Ever
Happens, 2008
Scaffolding and Illuminated text
Photo: Thierry Bal
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From the cradle to the grave! ACCA’s major
exhibition Mortality takes us on life’s journey
from the moment of lift off to the final send off,
and all the bits in between. Curated by Juliana
Engberg to reflect the Festival’s visual arts themes
of spirituality, death and the afterlife, this transhistorical event includes metaphoric pictures and
works by some of the world’s leading artists.
Tony Oursler, a New York-based artist who
works in a range of media and who has exhibited
in the major institutions of New York, Paris,
Cologne and Britain.
David Rosetzky, a Melbourne-born artist who
works predominantly in video and photographic
formats and whose work has featured in
numerous Australian exhibitions as well as New
York, Milan and New Zealand galleries.
Louise Short, an emerging British artist who
works predominately with found photographs
and slides.
Event Information
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
111 Sturt St, Southbank
Fri 8 Oct – Sun 28 Nov
Tue – Fri 10am – 5pm
Sat – Sun & Public Holidays 11am – 6pm
Closed Mon
Anri Sala, an Albanian-born artist who lives
and works in Berlin. He has shown in the Berlin
Biennale and the Hayward, London.
FREE
Fiona Tan, an Indonesian-born artist, who
lives and works in Amsterdam. Tan works with
photography and film and has shown in a
number of major solo and group exhibitions,
including representing the Netherlands at the
2009 Venice Biennale.
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ACCA advises this exhibition requires approximately two hours for viewing.
Please check the ACCA website for screening times of Tacita Dean’s
Presentation Sisters.
ACCA is supported by Australia Council, Arts Victoria and City of Y[