The Carousel is a video performance lecture that pries open the crypt of cinema’s undead.
Navigating through a matrix of film samples, Soda_Jerk draw out the peculiar temporality of cinema and the spectacle of death that lurks beneath it. This work emerged from the artists ongoing investigation of hauntology, an area of research that also informs their video series The Dark Matter Cycle. Developed during studio residencies at Fremantle Art Centre and Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, The Carousel will be presented in Sydney as part of the University of Technology’s annual Image Studies Lecture Series, hosted by the department of Photography and Situated Media.

Type Cast is a panel discussion on lettering and typography which features Luca Ionescu: (Like Minded Studio), Gemma O’Brien, Keith Morris and Wayne Thompson (Australian Type Foundry) held at Apple Studios, Sydney in May.

Monash University continues its own weekly design speaker series Volume Control.

Speakers for the coming weeks are:

April 30: Gwynneth Porter, Clouds Publishing
May 07: Bruce Mutard, Writing with images: an examination of how comics or graphic stories communicate
May 14: Mimmo Cozzolino, Collecting for design

Talks begin at 5pm in Lecture Theatre G1.04 at Faculty of Art Design & Architecture, Monash University (Building G, 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East Victoria 3145). Entry is free.

Mr Kitly in Brunswick presents Group Work, an ongoing collaborative project where artists, makers & designers come together to consider everyday objects and moments. In this exhibition titled Project 001: Something To Hold On To, Melbourne based artists, makers and designers present new ideas about the objects people touch everyday and the objects that they employ to do the grasping for them.