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ACMI
Federation Square, Melbourne, VIC 3000 [Map 2]
03 8663 2200
Mon to Fri 12noon–5pm, Sat and Sun 10am–6pm.
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ACMI is your museum of screen culture. Navigate the universe of film, TV, videogames and art with us.
Located in the heart of Melbourne’s Fed Square, ACMI (formerly Australian Centre for the Moving Image) celebrates the wonder and power of the world’s most democratic artform – fostering the next generation of makers, players and watchers. ACMI’s vibrant calendar of exhibitions, screenings, commissions, festivals, and industry and education programs explore the stories, technologies and artists that create our shared screen culture.
1 December 2021—30 January
Analects of Kung Phu: Book 1, The 69 Dialogues between the Lamp and the Shadow
Jason Phu
Aside from bareknuckle action and breakneck stunts, Marchtial arts and wuxia films are packed with wisdom and life lessons. Artist Jason Phu has reclaimed these wise sayings and remixed them into a moving image philosophy for surviving contemporary life. Divided into chapters featuring insights and meditations from different movies, Analects of Kung Phu offers a guide to ourselves and society taught by action stars and movie heroes.
Jason Phu is the 2021 recipient of the Mordant Family Moving Image Commission for young Australian artists.
1 December 2021—6 March
Spawn
Laura Duffy
What do freak-science, fairies and queer flower coding have in common? These themes intersect in a new experimental video work by Te Whanganui A-Tara based artist Laura Duffy. Spawn explores political underpinnings of categorisations of ‘natural’ and ‘unnatural’ in relation to bodies. Exploring critically the process of bodies considered natural or normal. Spawn is an ACMI + CIRCUIT Commission which supports an invited Australasian artist to deliver an experimental new work specifically for an online context.
Open daily
The Story of the Moving Image
From the first projections and optical illusions to the birth of film and beyond, moving images have the power to spark imagination, share stories and shape history. Discover how inventors, innovators and artists at the turn of the 20th century wielded light, split time and captured motion, heralding a technological revolution that continues today. Featuring ancient shadow puppets, Victorian-era magic lanterns, original cameras, iconic costumes, movie sets, sketches, clips and contemporary art, our exhibition traverses time, countries and cultures in a mesmerising exploration of an art form that changed the world and illuminated our collective humanity.
Five distinct sections frame the major moments in moving image history, including the origins and future of cinema, production design and the creative process, Australian culture and stories, the rise of videogames, and how screens inform, influence and empower us.
Until 23 January
Disney: The Magic of Animation
Discover the creativity and innovation of almost 100 years of Disney animation in ACMI’s latest Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition. Shown in Australia for the very first time, this exhibition contains original sketches and rare artworks from 1928 to the present day, including the latest release Raya and the Last Dragon, exclusive to Melbourne. Experience the depth of colour in animation through an immersive room featuring scenes from The Lion King (1994) and Pocahontas (1995). See over 500 artworks from your favourite animations. Don’t miss the chance to see how animators use colour to express emotions, and the technical skill of crafting character and storytelling. You can even step inside a scene from the Disney classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Alcaston Gallery
84 William Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000 [Map 2]
03 8849 9668
Open by appointment.
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Anna Schwartz Gallery
185 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC 3000 [Map 2]
Tue to Fri 12noon–5pm, Sat 1pm–5pm.
Gallery closed until 2 February.
2 February—14 May
Peripheral Vision
Alberta Whittle, Haris Epaminonda, Yael Bartana, James Nguyĕn and Victoria Phãm, Hiwa K, Cyprien Gaillard.
Curated by Lewis Gilbert and Tania Doropoulos.
5 February—2 April
Towards A Blind Self-Portrait
Mike Parr
17 February—20 February
Melbourne Art Fair
Emily Floyd
Art Gallery of Ballarat
www.artgalleryofballarat.com.au
40 Lydiard Street North, Ballarat VIC 3350 [Map 1]
03 5320 5858
Open daily 10am–5pm.
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Until 9 January
Linda McCartney: Retrospective
The Ballarat International Foto Biennale returns with an exhibition of exclusive works by world-famous, award-winning American photographer Linda McCartney. Linda McCartney: Retrospective presents the spontaneous and experimental experiences involving the iconic people and places that shaped Linda’s extraordinary life.
Until 16 January
Anindita Banerjee: Ondormohol
Part of the Ballarat International Foto Biennale.
Until 9 January
From the Murray to the sea
Marie Mason
Until 23 January
Robert Fielding: miil-miilpa
Robert Fielding is a contemporary artist of Pakistani, Afghan, Western Arrente and Yankunytjatjara descent living in the remote Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands whose work combines strong cultural roots with contemporary perspectives. In miil-miilpa (sacred) he continues his work connected to the significance of Elders in his community, their stories and their understandings in two distinct bodies of new photographic work—intimate portraits and landscape images. Part of the Ballarat International Foto Biennale.
22 January—10 April
Call and Response
Recent acquisitions in impossible conversations with works from the Collection.
12 February—1 May
Daryl Lindsay: En pointe
19 February—24 April
Next Gen 2022: VCA Art and Design
13 January—27 February
Dianne Dickson: My cyberspace studio
A Backspace Gallery exhibition.
Ararat Gallery TAMA
82 Vincent Street, Ararat, 3377 [Map 1]
03 5355 0220
Open daily 10am—4pm.
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Until 6 February
Frances Burke: Works from the TAMA Collection
Until March
Golden Textures Art Quilts
Until April
John Eagle: Horizons
Art Lovers Melbourne Gallery
300 Wellington Street, Collingwood, VIC 3066 [Map 3]
1800 278 568
Wed to Sat 10am–5pm or by appointment.
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2 January—31 January
Unwrapped
Nestled in an iconic art pocket of Collingwood, Art Lovers Australia unwraps their new Melbourne gallery, showcasing an eclectic group of Australian artists from abstract to Aboriginal art, figurative to still life, urban to pop.
12 February—3 March
Absurd
Exploring themes of humour and surrealism, exhibits a wildly imaginative multi-media collection from artists across Australia. From funny and chaotic, to cerebrally challenging and mysterious, this collection taps into the darker and more hidden part of the subconscious, to present you with a series of works that are at times illogical and
