From the ACCA website

JIM LAMBIE
Eight Miles High
2 August 2008 to 21 September 2008

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Sturt Street, Southbank

Scotland‘s Jim Lambie has turned ACCA‘s main gallery into a psychedelic environment with one of his signature floor-works and assorted sculptures. Inspired by Glasgow‘s club and music scene in which he is an integral part, Lambie transforms artspaces into multi-coloured or black and white ‘opti-delic‘ shifts.

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Art of a graphic nature blurs the divide between commercial graphic and fine art. Here the work Alan Lambie shows commercial designers that their work can be shifted a few degrees and it can be art rather than advertising, or maybe it can be art as well as advertising. It may, or may not be a good thing to encourage commercial designers to blur the line of being commercial and artful, yet if one looks back at the work that established graphic design, it has a spirit and freedom to it that makes it desirable. One often asks oneself which commercial posters of today (sponsor logos and all) will be featured as ephemeral art in interiors of the future?

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The graffiti scene in Melbourne is not far removed from being a mainstream expression. It is used in advertising and design to give a product or an organisation street cred; there are art documentaries like “Not Quite Art“ developed and presented by Marcus Westbury investigating it; to t-shirt labels like the Burn Crew making graffiti available to people who want to wear graffiti.

On the other side of the fence is the people who appose it — property owners, citizens who see graffiti as criminal act rather than a creative expression. Of all the ways and means that this sector of society who are driven want to keep their wall and spaces graffiti clear, this gate in the back of Prahran attempts to deter with wit and cunning.

The second installation of “Not Quite Art” is likely to air on ABC 1 in October.

In the constant search of music obsessing with being machine like, let‘s segue to 1979 and a music act called Godley & Creme (G&C) and their seminal hi tech piece — an Englishman in New York. Not the crap Sting version. Prior to their Strange apparatus G&C were in a band called 10cc.

Once they gave up singing pop songs G&C then started directing music video clips. Their work started with a bang — Rock it by Herbie Hancock, continuing with highlights that include Girls on Film by Duran Duran, and Fade to Grey by Visage. The G&C duo have been doing-what-love since the late 1950s.

Slapped up, crinkled, raw edges, fat dots, big contrast, clashing screens, visual tricks, awkward type, generous slabs of yellow and black, thick screen printed ink, big big big, here one day, gone the next. Nothing beats a street poster and this year‘s Melbourne Fringe festival street posters is the pay back for working late and tweeking elements, and shuffling stuff on white shapes. Thank you Rock Posters. Yum.

These guys say… a festival is looming.

A compilation of exotic sounds and grooves designed to be a lush international listening experience. We revisited the image the launched this compilation series, reshot the head pieces and contrasted the image with a slab of raw plywood and crimped paper… another compilation from a long time client Filter Music… Thanks again to JF and the crew.

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