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Moores Building back to the decade that shaped modern Australia.
Contemporary Art Gallery Feb 7 to March 2 Awavena by Lynette Wallworth.
From Emmy Award-winning director Lynette
46 Henry Street, Fremantle 6160. T (08) 9432-9898. Wallworth and the Amazonian Yawanawa people,
E richiek@fremantle.wa.gov.au Awavena is a stunning tale of metamorphosis told
W www.fac.org.au/about/moores-building through cutting edge VR and AR technology. Using
H Daily 10.00 to 4.00. Feb 1 to 16 Knowing: With technology that the Yawanawa feel enables them to
a Backwards K is a group exhibition that hosts a share their story and visions, this immersive work
diverse range of artists – Brittany Adams, Joanna takes you on a virtual journey into the spirit world,
Anderson Toryu, Erin Bayliss, Shanti Bennett, capturing fluorescent specimens from the forest
Helen Blanchard, Caila Cohen, Vanessa Goerke, world, to create a vivid, luminous vision. Presented in
Georgia Matthey, Helen Moon, Louise Mustard, association with Perth Festival.
Christina Pennell, Ingrid Stotesbury, Susannah
Warrington, Kim Walsh, Liezl Watermeyer-Collins Artbank, Perth
and Elizabeth Way. Exploring identity from their
different perspectives. Also, Harbourside Vigil is a Level 1, 99 Adelaide Terrace, Perth 6000.
painting series by Michael Gabriel Francas looking at T 1800-251-651. E enquiries@artbank.gov.au
the Fremantle harbour in the tradition of landscape W www.artbank.gov.au H Mon-Fri by appt.
as both a real place and as metaphor. The exhibition A Commonwealth Government art leasing program for
features the familiar dockside Fremantle cranes with contemporary art. Supporting Australian artists.
maybe the impression of coastal guardians keeping a
vigil. Feb 22 to March 8 Digital Sabbath is a mixed Cool Change Contemporary
media exhibition by artists, educators and researchers 1F Bon Marche Arcade Building, 74-84 Barrack
Dr Julia Morris and Dr Lisa Paris. The project Street, Perth 6000. E hello@coolchange.net.au
follows 9 individual’s journeys as they unplug from W www.coolchange.net.au H Wed-Sun 11.00
technology for a day a week over a 3 month period. to 5.00. An artist-run-initiative for exhibitions,
performances, screenings, workshops and events
across multiple galleries.
Perth City Perth Institute of

Contemporary Arts (PICA)
Art Gallery of Western Australia Perth Cultural Centre, 51 James Street, Perth 6000.
Perth Cultural Centre, James Street Mall, Perth 6000. T (08) 9228-6300. E info@pica.org.au
T (08) 9492-6600 F 9492-6655. W www.pica.org.au Free entry. H Tues-Sun 10.00
W www.artgallery.wa.gov.au Free entry unless stated to 5.00. Feb 9 to April 19 (opening Sat Feb 8,
otherwise. H Wed-Mon 10.00 to 5.00 (closed Tues). 5-7.30pm) Chalkroom by Laurie Anderson & Hsin-
To Feb 10 WA Now – Eveline Kotai: Breathing Chien Huang. Step inside an immersive world and
Pattern – features new and recent work including take a journey through an enormous structure made
canvas reconstructions and paintings, and forms part of words, drawings and stories. Once you enter this
of the WA Now series dedicated to showcasing work interactive installation you are free to roam and fly.
by WA artists. To Feb 17 Perth Brutal: Dreaming Words sail through the air as emails. They fall into
in Concrete. This exhibition opens out the many dust. They form and reform. Created by pioneering
layers of the history of the 1979 Brutalist building’s artist and musician Laurie Anderson and Taiwanese
development featuring images of the building in new media artist Hsin-Chien Huang, Chalkroom is
construction and its early days, along with ephemera, a Virtual Reality work unlike any other. Instead of
plans, diagrams and drawings, and early promotional the brightly-lit gaming world of most VR, everything
brochures about the structure and its place in the is hand drawn, dusty and dark, creating a shadowy,
Cultural Centre. To March 9 That Seventies Feeling... atmospheric world to explore. Also, Thunderhead By
the Late Modern. AGWA 40 – Celebrating the Tina Havelock Stevens – depicting landscapes and
anniversary of AGWA’s 1979 Brutalist building. dwelling on sites that are often empty or abandoned,
Full of surprises and rarely seen works, the exhibition Stevens’ sensibilities as a film-maker and a musician
examines a transformative decade for Western create suspended moments that speak of survival and
Australia, the Gallery and the world at large. Featuring fragility and draw connections between environmental
artists Miriam Stannage, Virginia Cuppaidge, Mike and emotional spaces. This exhibition offers a series
Parr and Brian Blanchflower, hip new visions by of video works accompanied by improvised sound
Robert Rooney, Stephen Shore and Jenny Watson scores – sometimes recorded, sometimes performed
and late work by modernists Howard Hodgkin, Fred live. Visceral and immersive,
Williams and Albert Tucker, you’ll be transported

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