Hours: Wed to Fri 2-6pm, Sat 10.30 - 4.30pm
Cost: 0
More Info: www.gallerycentral.com.au

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Covert Art and Morsels Mick Turner/Graceful Wings of Travellers Jo Darvall
To coincide with Australian instrumental group Dirty Three’s upcoming Australian tour, guitarist Mick Turner’s artwork will be on show with artist friend Jo Darvall in Perth at Central Institute of Technology for four days in March 2012.This is an opportunity to see into the creative practice and inquiry of two friends who were a part of a unique time in Melbourne’s fast paced underground music and art scene.
“Beautiful, playful and colourful Turner/Darvall’s art works will entertain and entrance the entomologist and music fans alike”. Thelma John, Art Curator

7-10 March 2012
Open times: Wed to Fri 2-6pm, Sat 10.30 - 4.30pm
Mick Turner will be present to meet visitors
Saturday 10 March from 10.30 to 11.30am.
Showcase Gallery
Central Institute of Technology,
corner of Aberdeen & Beaufort St, Northbridge
T: 94271318
www.gallerycentral.com.au

Hours: 8pm - 12am
Cost: Free!
More Info: http://williamstreetbird.com/

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Fun times returning to The Bird (again!+!+!)
- we are holding some mid-week fun to get over the mid-week hump.

think hot dance floor action
+ ice cold drinks

Featuring only the finest DJs in town
- this week we present -
.:. GOJI .:.
.:. CARLSANI .:.

Get your butts on down and do the slow (or fast) grind.

Hours: 9-11pm
Cost: Standard: $59.50; Friends $54.50
More Info: www.perthfestival.com.au/en/What%27s-on/Event/Penguin-Caf%C3%A9

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With remarkably fresh and intensely memorable creations like Music for a Found Harmonium and Telephone and Rubber Band Penguin Café Orchestra made a fundamental mark on British popular culture. Now a new generation tenpiece of ukeleles, strings, percussion, electric bass and piano are spinning wonder and whimsy with songs you'll be humming for days.

Cap off your Festival with an after-party featuring Penguin Café's sister group Sundog.

Hours: 11pm - 2am
Cost: $5 or free if you have already paid to see the bands!
More Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/298825323499754/

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EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT 11PM - 2AM
If Live music isn't your thing or you want to kick on for a boogie then this is for you. "The Saturday Night Social" begins at 11pm with "The Kings of Cheese DJ's and some very special guests, serving up some classic handbag anthems.

From the sixties, Tamla Motown, from the seventies, the Funk, the Punk, the Glam and the sound of Philly, from the eighties the Electro, New Wave and Rave, the nineties with some Hip, some Hop and a pinch of Brit Pop.... Dancing Music for Dancing people!

Check out some of the sounds:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Saturday-Night-Social/181511458586363

11pm - late every Saturday and only $5 or free if you have already paid to see the bands!

Hours: 9-11pm
Cost: Standard: $59.50; Friends $54.50
More Info: www.perthfestival.com.au/en/What%27s-on/Event/Staff-Benda-Bilili

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Expect the unexpected on a night of life-affirming music from the streets of Kinshasa. Filled with raw power, intense joy and delicate beauty, Staff Benda Bilili's music sees Congolese rumba blended with 70s funk, Cuban son and mambo.

Discovered by Damon Albarn as part of Africa Express, this unique group is comprised of paraplegic street musicians in suped-up three-wheelers and street kids from around the Kinshasa Zoo, proving good music can never be kept down.

Hours: From 6pm
Cost: $15+bf
More Info: www.rooftopmovies.com.au/march/weekend_double:_heathers

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THE THOUSANDS & ONWILLIAM PRESENT BITCHES & WITCHES

Get your claws sharpened and put your hair up in some kind of amazing do for a night of Bitches, Witches and all round good fun party times.

OnWilliam and The Thousands have been busy pulling together a stellar lineup... Dance away with live music from The Dianas and The Shakeys. Then when you need to put your feet up, sit back and enjoy the wonderful cinematic masterpieces that are Heathers and Suspiria.

And all while being one of the first to enjoy Perth's latest delight - Rooftop Movies!

For some special OnWilliam love use the promo code BLACKMAGIC when booking tickets online to receive your special 50% discount. Magic!

Hours: noon + 8pm daily
Cost: free
More Info: www.erincoates.net/suspension

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Showing on Perth Cultural Centreâs LED, Suspension is a screen-based exhibition curated by Perth artist/curator Erin Coates. The seven featured artists are a mixture of established and new talent from across Australia; Marcus Canning (WA), Erin Coates (WA), Lily Hibberd (VIC), Loren Holmes (WA/UK), Jacqui Monks (WA), Sam Smith (NSW) and Justin Spiers (WA/NZ). Referencing the notion of âsuspended disbeliefâ Coates has selected works that revel in the unreality of constructed screen space. The videos employ techniques of green-screening, time remapping, rotoscope animation, infra-red vision and video collage to reflect on the inherent nature of digital media as non-linear, hyper-visual, layered and pliable. This collection of works dilate time and suspend our disbelief, holding viewers in moments that are wondrous, horrifying, hypnotic and magical.

Hours: 8-10pm
Cost: Standard: $42.50; Friends: $39.50
More Info: www.perthfestival.com.au/en/What%27s-on/Event/The-Magnets

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Prepare to pick your jaw up off the floor when you hear this six-man a Capella sound machine. Armed with nothing more than silky smooth vocal cords, they fashion razorsharp harmonies and beat-boxing to produce covers of Kraftwerk, Beyoncé, Lenny Kravitz and more.

Hours: See website
Cost: Standard $39; Friends $29.50; Concession $29.50; FT Students (U/30) $15.50
More Info: www.perthfestival.com.au/en/What%27s-on/Event/Driving-Into-Walls

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Pashing, fighting, laughing, dancing and confessing ... drawn from over 500 starkly honest and highly confidential interviews with Western Australian teens, this intimate and confronting play draws back the curtain on what it means to be young in our modern, media-driven society.

Five teenagers walk an emotional tightrope of online and offline relationships, colliding with one another and driving into the walls built around them. This daring, immersive production gives you a raw and voyeuristic view of their deepest secrets, rages, anxieties and hopes.
Suitable for 13+.
Part of Perth International Arts Festival Vital Stages program.

Hours: Fri 24 Feb: 12-8pm
Sat 25 Feb: 12-8pm
Sun 26 Feb: 10am-5pm
Tue 28 Feb: 2-5pm
Wed 29 Feb: 2-5pm
Thur 1 March: 2-8pm
Fri 2 March 2-8pm
Sat 3 March: 10am-6pm
Cost: FREE
More Info: www.perthfestival.com.au/en/What%27s-on/Event/Home-Sweet-Home

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Put your creative talents to the test as we build a vibrant new Perth from the ground up. Using our special cardboard kit, you can design and decorate a dream home, nightclub, surf shop, bird sanctuary or whatever you like – the more imaginative the better.

Pop in regularly and witness the city’s astonishing evolution. Keep on top of the latest news and gossip with the bulletin board, post box and community radio station and make sure you’re at closing night for the smallest (but most festive) street party of the year!

Hours: Opens: 6pm Feb 15th
Tues - Fri: 11am - 6pm
Sat - Sun: 12 -pm.
CLOSED Mondays
Cost: 0
More Info: www.oktachoron.com

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OK Gallery reopens in 2012 with David Egan's first solo exhibition The unknown by the more unknown.

Egan presents a charismatic constellation of paintings and objects examining pop culture mysteries and vernacular theories investigating the infinite potential of interpretation and understanding in cultural communication.

Central to The unknown... is an interactive sculptural book that, when manipulated by the audience, produces a generative soundtrack that fills the gallery with an oscillating musical scale. A mysterious soundtrack is created by which a guided meditation on each painting can take place. Egan's simple and diagrammatic paintings depict musical instruments, un-proven physics propositions and natural forms. Individually, they are discrete icons, standing in for different methods - both rigorous and associative - by which understanding is produced. Together Egan's paintings act as 'nodes' in a greater network of ideas, investigating the generation of knowledge whilst also acknowledging the generative power of the unknown.

The unknown by the more unknown is proudly part of the 2012 Fringe World Festival.

Hours: Mon-Fri 10am-4.45pm, Sat 2-4.45pm
Cost: 0
More Info: www.gallerycentral.com.au

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Internationally renowned South Korean contemporary artist and designer. Choi Jeong Hwa creates art that celebrates the peculiar beauty of synthetic materials and everyday objects while provoking reflections upon both consumption and harmony in our modern lives. Choi’s ephemeral installation of more than 20 000 balloons at Gallery Central is a complement to his Perth International Arts Festival commissioned public installations. His carnival of colour and plastic mimics and honours the beauty in nature as well as the processes of decay that are part of being alive.

Hours: Tuesday to Saturday 11-5
Cost: 0
More Info: www.turnergalleries.com.au

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Marion Borgelt is one of Australia’s most eminent artists, well known for her paintings, sculptures and public artworks. Time, space, light and motion are all themes that Marion’s work has examined for several years, and she continues this exploration in her current exhibition; Musical Geometry. She is fascinated by how light behaves in certain environments: how it bends, folds and curls providing sensory encounters. Her artworks often reference notions of sequential movement that calibrates time and change in a universe of perpetual motion. Marion has been exhibiting professionally for over 35 years and has received many significant awards. Her work can be found in more than 40 major public collections and in a further 22 corporate collections.

Hours: 10am - 5pm, closed Tuesdays.
Cost: FREE
More Info: www.artgallery.wa.gov.au

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In an exciting new presentation, it is the first time Your Collection has been displayed chronologically; it traces art made in the early nineteenth century, locally and around the world, to the art of today. Your Collection 1800 – today brings together an extraordinary group of over 450 Western Australian Indigenous and non-Indigenous, national and international art, craft and design from the State Art Collection. There are four principal areas of display which you can discover on the ground floors of both the Centenary Galleries and the main Gallery building.

1800-1920 Here and There located in the Centenary Galleries includes works by Hans Heysen, Frederick McCubbin and Auguste Rodin; 1920-1960 Many Modernisms includes works by Stanley Spencer, Sidney Nolan and Kathleen O’Connor; 1960-1980 Anything Goes features work by Jenny Watson, Barbara Hepworth, Kaapa Tjampitjinpa and Alec Mingelmanganu; 1980-today Expanding Fields brings us up to date with major works by Rover Thomas, Ken Unsworth, Sally Gabori and Max Pam.

Image credits: James Angus, Gorilla, gorilla, gorilla 2006. Wood veneers, nylon, 24.2 x 18 x 32cm. State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia Purchased with funds from the Sir Claude Hotchin Art Foundation, 2006. © James Angus 2006.

 

Hours: 2-3pm
Cost: FREE
More Info: www.artgallery.wa.gov.au

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Jeff Wall is recognised throughout the world as one of the most innovative and influential artists working today. JEFF WALL Photographs, this first Australian survey of his work brings together 26 mostly large-scale photographs to present an overview of his extraordinary achievements and features major works from over three decades of artistic and photographic innovation. Large and luminous, his photographs have rewritten nearly every convention of photography. Wall’s outstanding body of work has played a decisive role in establishing photography as the major contemporary art
form it is today.

Join artist Jeff Wall and AGWA's Deputy Director | Chief Curator Gary Dufour in an artist’s talk and a question
and answer session, and discover the mind behind these amazing photographs. This is an extraordinary opportunity to learn more about one of the most influential photographers of our time.

Image credit:Jeff Wall, After ‘Invisible Man’ by Ralph Ellison, the Prologue 1999-2000. Transparency in light box, AP.
174 x 250.5 cm. Courtesy of the artist © Jeff Wall.