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KINGS Artist-Run

Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Address: 171 King Street, Level 1 3000 Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.kingsartistrun.org.au

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25.01.2022 Runway x KINGS: Bricks and Mortar . KINGS committee members Ashley Perry, Katie Ryan and Chelsea Farquhar in conversation for @runway_journal and @all_conference . . Runway Journal has partnered with All Conference to present a series of Conversations from its network of artist-led, experimental and cross-disciplinary arts organisations around Australia. Throughout the year, 16 organisations will each present a new piece on Runway’s Conversations platform.... . Link in bio : ) . @unashamedly_naive @katie.ryan_ @chelseafarquhar_ See more

25.01.2022 KINGS open today 12-6pm! . Come down and see the brilliant works by Amber Koroluk-Stephenson, Eloise Kirk, Jelena Telecki, Lisa Sammut and Nicola Smith currently showing in 'Dream Sequence'. . Imaged works by Amber Koroluk-Stephenson, Jelena Telecki & Lisa Sammut... Photos: @quisbie . @amber_koroluk_stephenson @eloise_kirk @lilsammut @jelenatelecki @hellonicola @ KINGS Artist-Run See more

25.01.2022 NOW: 'LIVE FROM THE FIELD' Siying Zhou . (link in bio) . Question ONE: How could I capture my mind in this new living?... . //***** Where was I before March? What did I do in January and February? Did I make a new body of works? Did I attend to the opening of my exhibition? Was I going to catch up with Andree at a Chinese hotpot restaurant? Did I plan to travel to California, the United States of America to visit my grandma who is over 90 years old? What was the last movie I saw at cinema nova? What was like to sit down for a cup of coffee at a café in the morning? *****// . Facebook continues to pull me back further to a random point in a history that is stitched from a reservoir of my previous posts. In many mornings, it persistently asks me if I could like re-post a text, or a photo, or a text+photo that I leashed out 1, 9, or 10 years ago . . 'Live From The Field' is a series of regular updates on KINGS website by artists in lockdown. An alternative take on the rolling media feed, 'Live From the Field' offers diaristic reflections, critical texts, recipes, artworks and scripts in response to the current crisis. @siying_z See more

24.01.2022 The X Files Remastered' by Penny Walker-Keefe. Currently screening at www.kingsartistrun.org.au A remake the iconic intro theme of The X Files intro, scene-for-scene using painting and DIY props captured with video and stop motion animation. Utilising digital and analogue collage Walker-Keefe inserts their face into the film as a proxy for Mulder & Scully. Accompanying the film is a vocal recording of the theme song, the artist's voice simulating orchestral strings, complete... with the familiar whistle melody. The resulting humorous work dances between high and low fidelity and invites contemplation upon television, streaming services, practical effects, reproduction and fandom. Available to view only until 11.59pm, 11 June image credit: Penny Walker-Keefe, 'The X Files Remastered', Single channel video, 46 seconds, 2020 #PennyWalkerKeefe #TheXFiles #Xfiles #video #art #onlineexhibition #onlineart #xfilesrevival #xfilesforever #videoscreening #videoart #artexhibition

24.01.2022 Lia Dewey Morgan, from KINGS 'Live From the Field'

23.01.2022 Currently on show at KINGS! 'Phenomenological Geologies' by Ren Gregori . Gallery open Wed-Sat, 12-6pm . Phenomenological Geologies examines the phenomenon of homogeneity in contemporary urban and non-urban landscapes with a focus on Oxalis pes-caprae; an invasive plant species that is commonly found at sites of geological and ecological disruption in Victoria as well as many other parts of the world.... The global presence of O. pes-caprae is representative of not only the significant impact and scale that human agency has on environments but also the impact that increased environmental homogeneity, arising from human agency, has on individuals and collectives. Of particular concern to Gregori is the limitation of nature-human experiences and categories of thought that result from shifts towards increasingly uniform terrain structures and biodiversity within the Australian context. This process of terrain-biodiversity universalisation is mirrored in the global phenomenon of structural and aesthetic homogenisation embedded in many architectural, infrastructure, urban planning and nature-management expressions; outcomes that eventuate as a broader consequence of modernity . @ren.gregorcic Photos: @quisbie

23.01.2022 KINGS 'Live From the Field' is in this weeks iteration of Art Guide's online art list. Make sure you head to our website to read Lia Dewey Morgan's engaging texts and Siying Zhou's previous contributions!

20.01.2022 ANNOUNCEMENT: KINGS is moving out! . Due to a sudden turn of events the committee of KINGS Artist-Run have decided to vacate our King Street building at the end of February 2020. . Our old building on the west side of town has hosted hundreds of iconic exhibitions, performances and events that have deeply effected Melbourne and Australias arts ecology. It has been a space for people to gather, experiment and support one another in the early stages of their careers and art...istic practices. And whilst we are sad to say goodbye to our home of 16 years, we also see this as an opportunity for KINGS to reassess the viability of the inherited artist-run model in the current socio-economic climate. It is a chance for KINGS to consider the multitude of ways that we can continue to support emerging artists well into the future. . Throughout 2020 KINGS will be going mobile as we continue to present a range of events, talks, screenings, workshops and exhibitions in various locations throughout the city. . We would like to invite everyone in our community to join us on February 22 from 8pm-11pm for our Royal Departure and for your last chance to say bieeeeee to our building! More details TBA! See more

19.01.2022 Demo-mode! Come check out our freshly renovated gallery before we move out at our Royal Departure Party on the 22nd from 8pm. See you then

18.01.2022 KINGS has been a little quiet of late. We have had a break after our move and have working on a range of new projects and collaborations that we look forward to announcing over the next few weeks. Firstly, we would like to announce: . CONSTANT ECOLOGY . A collaborative project with BLINDSIDE, CAVES and West Space commissioning a series of in-house residencies for artists in Victoria... . In 2020, with the various cultural, economic, environmental and global ecologies we find ourselves undergoing major upheavals and transformations. From the unprecedented bushfires to the global pandemic, these changes to our contingent and fragile ecology require urgent reflection and critical scrutiny. In response, four independent art organisationsBLINDSIDE, CAVES, KINGS Artist-Run and West Spacehave developed Constant Ecology, a collaborative initiative that seeks to address this current moment by supporting a series of in-home residencies by artists and creatives based in Victoria. . For more information visit our website constantecology.com . This project is supported by the City of Melbourne . @constantecology @blindside_ari @caves.melbourne @westspace See more

18.01.2022 Don’t forget to check out ‘}.exxxxu.exxxxu.exxxxu.exxxxu{‘ by Mohamed Chamas and Daniel R Marks. . }.exxxxu.exxxxu.exxxxu.exxxxu{ is an accumulation of cross-modal collaboration, sedimented to four streams of faux video-game Let’s Play footage. The videos are loosely bound by the archaic biopsychology of the four humours (blood, phlegm, black bile, yellow bile) through which we navigate with a tangential poesis. .... Visit our website to view this project. . Link in bio . @daniel.r.marks @mochamas_ See more

18.01.2022 Keep up your un Magazine collection and subscribe to receive the next print edition, un Issue 14.1, to be launched next month! . Edited by Rosie Isaac and Elena Gomez, the Issue is presciently structured around the theme of 'Care'. . In order to support our friends at un and to subscribe follow the link in @un_projects profile!... . P.s. The print edition comes with a special foldout poster by the amazing @katiewularni See more

17.01.2022 LIVE FROM THE FIELD: Siying Zhou . (Link in bio) . "My posts in #LiveFromTheField end after this, when the wave of COVID19 is felt like slowly rolling flat towards a shore.... . In a shrunk life under COVID19, I have broken and been dissolving inside the internet cable networks. The quotidian engagement with my phone, iPad and laptop, registers me as sequences of data, and feeds bits of me to multiple authoritarian tech avenues. If death could be reinterpreted as a digitalisation: turning everything about a person, including the physical condition, social networks, knowledge etc, into data, the process of dying has begun to me." . LIVE FROM THE FIELD is a series of regular updates on KINGS website by artists during lockdown . Many thanks to @siying_z For sharing her thoughts and experiences See more

17.01.2022 It is the final week to see KINGS January exhibitions! The gallery is open 12-6, Wed-Sat. . Come see Connie Anthes and Julia Bavyka's 'Soft Infrastructure' . 'Dream Sequence' with work by Eloise Kirk, Lisa Sammut, Nicola Smith, Amber Koroluk-Stephenson and Jelena Telecki... . And 'Phenomenological Geologies' by Ren Gregori . Photos: @quisbie @connieanthes @ju_bavyka @amber_koroluk_stephenson @eloise_kirk @jelenatelecki @lilsammut @hellonicola @ren.gregorcic @ KINGS Artist-Run See more

17.01.2022 KINGS and@un_projectshave been working together with our good friends at@tcb_artinc@seventhgalleryand@busprojectson a series of interviews with artists who are a part of their respective programs. . Two artists participating in SEVENTH Gallery's upcoming program, Marley Holloway-Clarke and Dale Collier have engaged in an ongoing correspondence with Kate ten Buuren and Beatrice Rubio-Gabriel respectively. You can access these thoughtful and deep discussions through our ...linktree and all are available to read on Dear un. . Marley Holloway-Clarke - 'I hope to provide a space for artists to tell their story through their work. So broadly speaking, the audience can expect to be told a story of Blak-ness and its many intersectionalities. I believe that art is a reflection of your reality, and I hope this exhibition will reflect the new communities that are being formed, the momentum that social media can bring to a cause, as well as look at the way artists are using this time to reflect on themselves, their knowledge of the world and how it impacts them as people.' . In response to the impacts of the current COVID-19 crisis on our community, KINGS Artist-Run and un Projects are collaborating with Bus Projects, TCB Art Inc. and SEVENTH to profile a range of artistic projects that have been impacted by the temporary closure of their physical spaces. . Images: Dale Collier andMarley-Holloway Clarke @beatricefrgabriel @daffodales @marleyhollowayclarke #katetenbuuren See more

16.01.2022 APPLY NOW! . KINGS Artist-Run are currently seeking expressions of interest to exhibit at our new West Melbourne venue from June November 2021 . This call out is due by midnight 14th of April 2021.... . Refer to our website for more details and feel free to email us at [email protected] with any questions . You can also find more images and a floor plan on the ‘Proposals’ section of our website (link in bio) See more

15.01.2022 'The X Files Remastered' by Penny Walker-Keefe. Currently screening at www.kingsartistrun.org.au In 2019 SBS Viceland began airing a remastering of the cult TV show The X Files. Its horror has paled since its first airing in the 90s when it was filmed. In the golden age of television, the artist found themself re-watching episodes of Th X Files every night after dinner. ... The burden of choice was removed by watching just this one program, dodging the show-verload of options presented by competing streaming services. The show that spooked Walker-Keefe when they were a kid had now become a part of their daily routine, the characters an extension of their person. The resulting humorous artwork invites contemplation on television, streaming services, practical effects, reproduction and fandom . Available to view only until 11.59pm, 11 June image credit: Penny Walker-Keefe, 'The X Files Remastered', Single channel video, 46 seconds, 2020 #PennyWalkerKeefe #TheXFiles #Xfiles #video #art #onlineexhibition #onlineart #xfilesrevival #xfilesforever #videoexhibition #videoscreening #videoart #artexhibition #gilliananderson #davidduchovny #thetruthisoutthere

15.01.2022 Last few days to watch Callan Skimin's 'Walking With Head Down'. Currently Screening at www.kingsartistrun.org.au Available to view only until 11.59pm, 28 May Video credit: 30 second preview of Callan Skimin, 'Walking With Head Down', Single Channel Digital Video, 36 minutes, 32 seconds, 2018

13.01.2022 It’s the final week to view }.exxxxu.exxxxu.exxxxu.exxxxu{ by Mohammad Chamas and Daniel R. Marks. . Visit our website to experience this expansive digital project. Developed as part of the KINGS online Commissions series. . Link in bio.... . @mochamas_ @daniel.r.marks See more

13.01.2022 Currently Screening: 'Walking With Head Down' by Callan Skimin At http://www.kingsartistrun.org.au/progr/currently-screening/ Available to view only between 12am, 15 May to 11.59pm, 28 May... 'Walking With Head Down' is a work in ten chapters exploring the bond between camera and self. Dreams, memory and language passing through the one aperture; every day the little cinema. image credit: 'Walking With Head Down' (still), Single Channel Digital Video, 36 minutes, 32 seconds, 2018

13.01.2022 KINGS January exhibitions are open! Come down and check out the three fantastic shows! Gallery Open 12-6, Wed-Sat. Exhitions run until the 1 February. . 'Soft Infrastucture' Julia Bavyka and Connie Anthes... . 'Dream Sequence' Amber Koroluk-Stephenson, Eloise Kirk, Nicola Smith, Jelena Telecki and Lisa Sammut . 'Phenomenological Geologies' Ren Gregori . @ju_bavyka @connieanthes @amber_koroluk_stephenson @eloise_kirk @jelenatelecki @lilsammut @hellonicola @ren.gregorcic @ KINGS Artist-Run See more

12.01.2022 Applications close at midnight tonight to join KINGS committee!

10.01.2022 'Walking With Head Down'. Currently Screening at www.kingsartistrun.org.au Callan Skimin's practice centres on the moving image as a plastic, malleable form of language; the gathering of material and the personal archive are foundations of his work. Callan completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at RMIT in 2018 and has exhibited work across Melbourne as well as in Seattle, London and Ho Chi Minh City. He is a part of the artist collective TEMA and is based in Castlemaine on Dja Dja... Wurrung land. More at: https://calskimin.wixsite.com/callanskiminart Instagram.com/callan_s_art Available to view only until 11.59pm, 28 May image credit: Callan Skimin, 'Walking With Head Down', Single Channel Digital Video, 36 minutes, 32 seconds, 2018

10.01.2022 'LIVE FROM THE FIELD: Siying Zhou' . (Link in bio) . TWO: I Observe a body... . Thursday the 9th of April 2020 Woken up by a bursting and sore bladder. My body had warmed my sack for the whole night. It would feel miserable to get up. I was telling my body to hold on for few more minutes. Just keep the eyes closed, keep dreaming, keep holding ... In the first week of the isolation, the relationship between me and my body was intense. I was sick. The fear of coronavirus infection magnified my focus on my biological self. Three times a day, I studied my pulse and measured my body temperature. I listened to my chest through breathing, searching for the hissing sounds. I recorded my appetite at every meal. I had certainly gathered a lot information about this 40-year-old body. But I was still estranged from it. I cared for it as if it was an external subject, a patient whom my existence was dependent on. . LIVE FROM THE FIELD is a series of regular updates on KINGS website by artists in lockdown. . Image: Untitled (Master Your Mother Tongue), 2018 @siying_z See more

10.01.2022 Last chance to apply! Applications close midnight Friday, 15 May.

09.01.2022 'The Furthest Corners' by Sam Mountford. Currently screening at www.kingsartistrun.org.au Available to view only until 11.59pm, 9 July. Sam Mountford is an Australian visual artist and writer based between Portugal and Nipaluna/Hobart. He predominantly works with moving-image and text and in collaboration with other artists. His own work is currently preoccupied with person-place relationships and the feedback loops between internal and external states... Image credit: Sam Mountford, 'The Furthest Corners' (still), 2020, 6 minutes and 53 seconds #SamMountford #TheFurthestCorners #video #art #onlineexhibition #onlineart #videoexhibition #videoscreening #videoart #artexhibition

08.01.2022 Royal Departure Party happening at KINGS on Saturday 22nd of Feb! . Performances by Sean Miles, Zoe Bastian and Georgia Banks. Not to be missed! . Come say goodbye to our building and party with us. Kicking off from 8pm!... . Images: Sean Miles, 'Raising Hell', 2019, performance for Moana Nui-a-Kiwa, Firstdraft 'Redemption for the Redeemer' 2019, 20 min live performance, Performed live by Zoë Bastin, Photo by Madeline Bishop . @seanmilehighclub @zoe.bastin @georgiaraebanks @ KINGS Artist-Run See more

08.01.2022 Join KINGS Committee! . We are currently taking applications from artists, writers, arts workers, curators and art lovers to join our committee. People of all experience levels are welcome to apply. . Being on the KINGS committee will provide an opportunity to contribute to the shape, direction and program of this long running and much loved ARI. Being on the committee will provide opportunities to develop new initiatives, support existing programs and work with a range of ar...tists, writers and creatives. . It is a particularly exciting period, as KINGS has recently become a roaming organisation and will be presenting a range of funded projects throughout the city in 2020/2021 whilst developing its future trajectory. . APPLICATIONS DUE 20 MAY . For more information go to the 'Apply' page on our website. If you have any questions please email us at [email protected] See more

08.01.2022 'Walking With Head Down' by Callan Skimin. Currently Screening at www.kingsartistrun.org.au A work about seeing, the camera as an extension of ourselves, and the cinema of lived experience - a video journal in ten chapters. Available to view only until 11.59pm, 28 May... image credit: 'Walking With Head Down' (still), Single Channel Digital Video, 36 minutes, 32 seconds, 2018

07.01.2022 Royal Departure Party tonight at KINGS kicking off from 8pm! . The inimitable @georgiaraebanks will be performing Miss Young Juicy & Malleable Packs It In alongside performances by @seanmilehighclub and @zoe.bastin . Georgia is also giving an artist talk today @ccp_australia for her show 'A Four Letter Word' at 12.30. Check it out

06.01.2022 'Mimeisthai' by Phoebe Robinson. Currently screening at www.kingsartistrun.org.au Available to view only until 11.59pm, 25 June Performers: Rhys Ryan, Chloe Arnott, Oonagh Slater and Luke Fryer.... Phoebe Robinson has an established practice as a dancer and choreographer and more recently with digital video. Having presented live performance work in Australia and internationally since 2000, she is currently interested in applying choreographic strategies within digital filmmaking. Her work is driven by a deep interest in everyday movement. By detaching gesture from notions of individual expression, she is interested in how gestures circulate and alter within specific places and over time. Sound: Guitar loops by Mathew Rolfe. Field recordings from www.freesound.com Image credit: Phoebe Robinson, 'Mimeisthai' (detail), 2019, 8 minutes and 13 seconds #PhoebeRobinson #Mimeisthai #video #art #onlineexhibition #onlineart #videoexhibition #videoscreening #videoart #artexhibition #WalterBenjamin #mimeticfaculty #dancevideo #dance #danceinstallation

06.01.2022 KINGS and @un_projects have been working together with our good friends at @tcb_artinc @seventhgallery and @busprojects on a series of interviews with artists who are a part of their respective programs. . Earlier in the year Alex Hobba and Alex Cuffe’s exhibitions' at TCB Art Inc. ‘A Gun Goes Off In Human Resources’ and ‘Love is the Length of Her Hair’, closed in response to public safety concerns. Both of these fantastic artists caught up with TCB Collective members Jordan... Halsall and Briony Galligan to discuss their exhibitions. You can read these discussions on ‘Dear un’ (follow linktree). . In response to the impacts of the current COVID-19 crisis on our community, KINGS Artist-Run and un Projects are collaborating with Bus Projects, TCB Art Inc. and SEVENTH to profile a range of artistic projects that have been impacted by the temporary closure of their physical spaces. . Images: Alex Hobba and Alex Cuffe @brionygalligan @jordanhalsall @tt_sktls @alexhobba See more

05.01.2022 Applications are now open for the KINGS Emerging Writers’ Program 2021 (July December). . The KINGS Emerging Writers’ Program (EWP) provides a platform for emerging arts writers to publish texts in response to the KINGS exhibition program. . Established in 2015, the EWP provides professional publishing opportunities and fosters further critical dialogue between artists and arts writers. Selected writers will be paired with an exhibition relevant to their interests to dev...elop an accompanying piece of text. All forms, including but not limited to, critical arts writing, fiction, poetry, experimental, cross-genre and digital formats are welcome. Throughout the program, each writer will receive critical feedback and editorial assistance. Their final written works are then presented as catalogue material within the gallery and on the KINGS Artist-Run website. In addition to writing a companion piece for the KINGS exhibition program, EWP participants have the opportunity to write for unExtended. As of 2018, KINGS Artist-Run has partnered with unProjects to develop short-form critical reviews to be published on unExtended. Through the program KINGS and unProjects work with emerging writers to develop written skills, critical voices and creative approaches to arts writing. . KINGS Artist-Run is committed to nurturing diverse voices and encourages submissions from culturally and linguistically diverse writers, including those of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, and queer and/or trans writers of all genders. . Participating writers will be paid a fee of $250 after the publication of both of their texts. . Refer to our website for more details about the application process (link in bio) . Image: Siying Zhou, ‘Untitled (Master Your Mother Tongue)’, 2018, C-type print of a 35mm film. Courtesy of the artist. See more

04.01.2022 'How To Deal With Difference' by Freya Pitt. Currently screening at www.kingsartistrun.org.au Available to view only until 11.59pm, 23 July. Freya Pitt is an artist based in Melbourne/Naarm, whose practice spanns video, projection, painting, performance and installation. She has exhibited in galleries and completed permanent and ephemeral commissions around Australia including the Melbourne Festival Art Trams Project and White Night Melbourne. Pitt holds a Masters of Art in ...Public Space (RMIT, 2014) and a Master of Fine Arts (VCA, 2018). Furious with neoliberalism, she makes art to explore the convoluted ways we are each formed within socio-historical structures. Image credit: Freya Pitt, 'How to deal with difference: artist edit', 12min digital video, 2020 #FreyaPitt #Howtodealwithdifference #video #art #onlineexhibition #onlineart #videoexhibition #videoscreening #videoart #artexhibition

04.01.2022 Mimeisthai' by Phoebe Robinson. Currently screening at www.kingsartistrun.org.au In 'Mimeisthai' gestural movements are shared, copied and repeated between performers both on and off-screen, and are amplified across multiple screens. This work calls upon the mimetic faculty of the performers to reproduce spontaneous movement that is copied from dancers outside the frame. It also calls upon the viewers ability to perceive a choreography of repetition, similarity and differenc...e. Through duplication, repetition, and layering multiple exposures a reference to early cinematic experiments by Eadweard Muybridge and Étienne-Jules Marey this work also explores the mimetic faculty of digital video.. Available to view only until 11.59pm, 25 June Image credit: Phoebe Robinson, 'Mimeisthai', 2019, 8 minutes and 13 seconds #PhoebeRobinson #Mimeisthai #video #art #onlineexhibition #onlineart #videoexhibition #videoscreening #videoart #artexhibition #WalterBenjamin #mimeticfaculty #dancevideo #dance #danceinstallation

01.01.2022 'Mimeisthai' by Phoebe Robinson. Currently screening at www.kingsartistrun.org.au 'Mimeisthai' is a multi-channel screen-dance installation adapted here for single channel viewing. This work responds to Walter Benjamins concept of the mimetic faculty, which is, the ability to perceive and/or reproduce similarity. This generic skill is possessed by all living things and finds expression on various levels, from the biological to the behavioural; such as in reproduction or ca...mouflage, to the myriad ways that creatures communicate. In humans the mimetic faculty is said to be especially complex, enabling pre-verbal perceptions that lead to the construction of meaning and language. Available to view only until 11.59pm, 25 June Image credit: Phoebe Robinson, 'Mimeisthai', 2019, 8 minutes and 13 seconds #PhoebeRobinson #Mimeisthai #video #art #onlineexhibition #onlineart #videoexhibition #videoscreening #videoart #artexhibition #WalterBenjamin #mimeticfaculty #dancevideo #dance #danceinstallation