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25.01.2022 Small snip of Benjamin Skepper’s performance March 9th at the NGA

25.01.2022 Hello contour 556 supporters. Planning underway for October 2020. Next year we will extend across to the National Museum grounds and Springbank Island/West Basin. A series of clusters of artworks will be presented. We have some initial support from Bonhams and will be applying for funds from various sources over the next few months. Will also commence a crowd funding campaign so keep an eye out for that one!

24.01.2022 Canberrans! Tickets still available through canberra ticketing. Hope to see you there!

24.01.2022 Preview Mariana del Castillo’s artworks for contour 556 / 2020. More updates to come!

20.01.2022 Contour 556. Where are they now? Having a great night with Anton Poon, who featured in contour 556 in 2018. one of the Canberra / ANU ‘s SOAD’s best sculpture graduates shamefully denied Australian residency by a capricious change in the legislation by the LNP government and Minister Dutton in particular. Say what you like but Australia has been denied a great talent by that action.

15.01.2022 Y Love by New Zealand artist Glen Hayward. Special points for finding this one Visit Canberra

13.01.2022 Looking forward to October and contour 556. Look out for the installation on Springbank Island where Indigenous architectural forms common to SE Australia will be recreated. Www.contour556.com.au

13.01.2022 good read here by Oscar Capezio online through Art Monthly Australasia

12.01.2022 Come and join CDT’s latest performance opportunity: In the Spirit is a response to the memory of Marion Mahony Griffin and her contribution to the design of Can...berra. Cost: Hot News! FREE thanks to the support of Ausdance ACT! Inspired by Marion’s irrepressible nature and indomitable spirit, the work explores themes of relationships: between nature and the built environment; the woman and her more famous husband; ideals for a better world sacrificed in grabs for power. In the Spirit is centred on and around Fiona Hooton’s straw Ziggurat. Dancers depart the safety of the ground to clamber up the rutted surfaces of the Ziggurat toward the prize of reaching the pinnacle. The performance will comprise of set movement material and improvisation scores. Rehearsals: Thursdays - for those who would prefer to stay on the solid ground and maybe venture to the first level of the Ziggurat In the studio: 12.30-2.00pm on 17th, 24th September & 1st, 8th October. These will be led by Philip Piggin On site: 1.00-2.30pm on 15th, 22nd October Saturdays - for those willing to climb onto the 2nd and 3rd levels of the Ziggurat In the studio: 3.00-4.30pm on 12th, 19th, 26th September & 3rd October. These will be led by Jacqui On site: 3.30-5.00pm on 10th October Come to either Thursdays or Saturdays. Altogether on site: Saturday 17th October, 3.30-5.30pm Final rehearsal: This will be either Friday 23 at 5.00pm or Saturday 24 October at 10.00am Performance: Saturday 24 October, 3.15 & 3.45pm (and standby for Sun 25th if we have to reschedule because of the weather) Sign up now: Please contact Jacqui ([email protected]) for further information and to put your name on the cast list

12.01.2022 All set for tomorrow afternoon at the NGA ! Still a few tickets left forBenjamins performance. Not to be missed.

11.01.2022 Mariana del Castillo’s installations for 16 Marcus Clarke Street are coming along very well. Can’t wait to see them installed from 9-31 October for contour 556 2020!

10.01.2022 Hello contour556 friends. Today contour 556 visited Gibbs Farm, notably home Richard Serra’s longest and largest work, Te Tuhirangi Contour. And many more. Please put October 2020 in your diaries for Canberra’s public art biennial. We won’t have Serra this time, but who knows for 2022!

10.01.2022 Opening soon! 63 individual artists have contributed to our 3rd edition. 9-31 October @contour556 #c556 Canberra City, the lake, and Kingston. See www.contour556.com.au

10.01.2022 Still time to donate people! we can announce two more artists : Jeremy Blincoe from Melbourne , and Ro Murray and Mandy Burgess from Sydney will be installing new works next year. donate and share!

10.01.2022 contour 556 commences 9 October. Read all about it in the RiotACT piece + www.contour556.com.au Hannah Quinlivan, Shroud, 2020 to be installed in East Basin

09.01.2022 Hello contour 556 friends. Some updates: Planning is well underway for the October 2020 edition, with some amazing artists coming to Canberra, including Richard Lewer, Rox de Luca, Louise Weaver and Restu Ratnaningtyas from Yogyarkarta. Big NZ contingent also planned: We will be launching a crowdfunding pitch through the Australian Cultural Fund in October this year so please look out for that. Contour 556 will be presenting at the International Federation of landscape Ar...chitects congress in Oslo this September. 1200 delegates will have the chance to see how public art contributes to a 'beautful and healthy city'. Contour 556 will also catch up with the curators of the inaugural Oslobiennalen, we noticed a pilot project a few years ago www.oslopilot.no it has now grown: see www.oslobiennalen.no the first edition will occur over a five year period. Programming started in May 2019. Potentially some collaborations can occur between the two biennials. See more

09.01.2022 Hello contour 556 friends and supporters: A great event Saturday 9th March 2.00pm - 4.30pm at the National Gallery in Canberra. Join Fujiko Nakaya in conversation, see her first large scale fog sculpture: Foggy wake in a Desert: an Ecosphere, 1976, installed in the NGA sculpture garden in 1982, followed by a multi-media performance by Benjamin Skepper drawing on Fujiko's experimental films from the 1960s and Benjamin's sampling of sounds from his compositions.

08.01.2022 Hello contour 556 friends and supporters. Please see link below to the video shot by Anna Howard, Sound Ben Howard, Edited by Darcy Malcolm. Keep October 9-30 2020 clear for the next iteration

06.01.2022 Lots of things on this weekend in the city. Ham Darrochs slow walk for Canberra commences at the ANU Art school Childers Street entrance are 10 am. Ham will walk to Civic Square. Tomorrow LURK collective will perform in Civic Square. And all the artworks to see! Including Localjinni walks (booked out tonight). Check out the contour 556 website for the interactive map and set yourself the challenge of a Springbank Island visit. Thanks to City Renewal Authority @cityrenewalCBR VisitCanberra Corporate @artsAct @eventsAct and @RiseCanberra

06.01.2022 This will be well worth the time. And a chance to revisit the Canberra Playhouse. Lots to see and do in Civic Square next Thursday 29th. Make sure to book! Thanks to cityrenewslCBR for the support!

05.01.2022 Very pleased to have Region Media as our media partners for the 3rd edition of contour 556. Canberra’s public art biennial. Thanks to ArtsAct, Events ACT, City Renewal Authority and all our Canberra supporters and volunteers. Shout of thanks to all our NSW supporters who have visited to date, and for our Victorian friends we hope that just some of the social posts give you something to hang on to. Please DM us to make sure you get you catalogue. ( and badge) We have a great program of events and we are more than pleased to offer tours and talks for groups to go deeper into the festival, only 2 weeks to go so be quick! People’s choice voting is open, great prizes from our sponsor Bonhams. Please click through the website.

03.01.2022 Hello contour 556 supporters. We are live with our fundraising. Every bit helps to find more artist to take part in Canberra’s biennial of public art. Use the link to see the confirmed artists. More added day by day! Please use the link to donate and share to those you think might be interested.