2010 Fremantle Arts Festival update
From Fremantle Arts Festival 2010 | 31 Aug 2010
2010 FREMANTLE ARTS FESTIVAL – 4TH – 14TH NOVEMBER
OPENING EVENT – MOORES GALLERY – Henry Street. 4th Nov. 6pm – 9pm
The 2010 Fremantle Arts Festival will launch with an exciting public opening at the Moores Gallery on Thursday 4th November 6pm – 9pm. It will be an important and unique experience within the 2010 Fremantle Festival.
Ian de Souza is the 2010 Festival artist and will produce an image to promote this community event. The City of Fremantle is keen to engage and unite the local visual arts community and to significantly revitalize “Art in the City”.
The theme, DRAWN TOGETHER – THE ART OF LIFE IN FREMANTLE seeks to explore the diversity of the body culture of Fremantle as the subject and discipline that drives this event.
Drawing may be seen as the primary language that connects and communicates across all societies. It is an integral part of the human psyche. It articulates our fundamental connection to life. Life drawing is perhaps its most potent form. It possesses a unique ability to express human emotion.
By invitation, dancers and performers, individuals and organizations will be DRAWN TOGETHER both physically and artistically. The humble charcoal and brush will be matched with high tech projection. Visual artists who work with human form, and performers, will engage in an unique event that captures the vitality of the moment in a creative exchange, transforming action to representation.
Camcorders will record and simultaneously project the gestured dance of hand on paper. This real-time action at a magnified scale will expose the finest idiosyncrasies of drawing.
Parallel to all artistic practice is the generation of THEORY that seeks to assume understanding in relation to the human condition. Forums will be conducted to articulate some of the theoretical thinking in relation to the body, which defines and enriches our contemporary culture.
Tuition and practice sessions will be offered daily, at a token cost, to select groups and individuals who wish to develop or hone fundamental skills and techniques within this discipline.
As part of the DRAWN TOGETHER experience the event at the Moores Gallery will offer an opportunity for artists from many disciplines to meet and network and for academics and the community to participate in rich discussion on the art of drawing the human form.
As curators of this event, artist Ian de Souza and artist / Moores Gallery Manager Richard Kuhaupt wish to extend to the greater creative community the opportunity to participate in this celebration that draws upon the excitement and diversity of life within the City.
Encompassing a range of diverse events, including Drawn Together at the Moores, there will be a massive street parade and kite festival.
The 2010 City of Fremantle Arts Festival is a celebration not to be missed.
OPENING NIGHT:
Participating artists are requested to give of their time in the SPIRIT of the community festival. Participating artists, once committed to the Moores Gallery event/s must find a comparable replacement if they are unable to attend. They must also provide their own materials. They will be acknowledged in the program.
30 curated invited registered artists will draw spontaneously on the night. Other registered artists are welcome at the launch and are invited to participate in Drawn Together events outlined in the program. There will be an opportunity to display 2 unframed drawings each at various times in the Moores Gallery. Artists may privately sell their drawings, although it is stressed that DRAWN TOGETHER at the Moores is about the PROCESS and NOT the end result.
All participating artists are requested to wear a beret or fedora hat on the opening night and beyond so they are easily identified by the public and colleagues. The public are encouraged to “get down and get drawing” with the artists in this festival!
There will be an opening-night roster and another roster for the remaining 9 days. (Artists and performers may continue to work post-festival at the Moores Gallery to the 21st Nov (refer Ian and Richard).
The Moores final program will be signed off by Ian and Richard in September and all interested artists notified by email.