Sunday, January 31, 2010

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Packaging and delivering the capsules...



After an early drive to Moorabbin this morning (thanks Gavin!) to visit John from Candy Kid Vending, the capsules for the exhibition were picked up and so began the rather arduous task of packaging 10 capsules for each of the 51 participating artists.

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First order of business: getting the labels ready.


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Opening the box! Felt like Christmas, only grittier, more 'independent self-funded arts project'-like and infinitely more exciting.


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The capsules are made from a sturdy plastic that opens when you compress the sides of the clear half. It needs a bit of force, but we figured it out in the end. The colours that arrived were mostly red, green and orange but there are several blue ones in the mix, so if you get one count yourself lucky!


Photography: Kim Brockett

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Insert Coin Here, 1 - 31 March 2010


Featuring...

Al Ouchtomsky – Amy Borrell – Andrea Eckersley – Anita Cummins – Antuong Nguyen – Beck Jobson – Ben Landau – Brittany Veitch – Caleb Shea – Carmel McKie – Chloe Vallance – Dani Maugeri – Dawn Tan – Deirdre Hoban – Dell Stewart – Dylan Martorell – Elise Sheehan – Ellie Mücke – Emily O'Brien – Emma Greenwood – Emmet O'Dwyer – Estelle Dévé – Felicity Jane Large – Gavin Bell – Gemma Patford – Genevieve Callaghan – Grant Nimmo – Handmade Life – Heather Lighton – Hugo Atkins – Jake Walker – Jarrod Zlatic – Jessica McElhinney – Kalinda Vary – Katie Jacobs – Kiah GM – Kyoko Imazu – Leah Jackson – Leah Muddle – Leo Jinks – Lily Feng – Louise Dibben – Louise Ryan – Lucie Sprague – Melody Ellis – Michael Pham – Michaela Bruton – Nathan Gray – Nicholas Jones – Pip Carroll – Prudence Lansell – Prudence Rees-Lee – Sarah McNeil – Sharon Margaret – Simon MacEwan – Simon Winkler – Simon Zoric – Tim Fleming – Timothy Kendall Edser – Wolfgang, Max & Shlomo


Collect them all!




About




Insert Coin Here

is a group exhibition curated by Nella Themelios & Kim Brockett. The exhibition is part of the 2010 L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival cultural program.


Insert Coin Here
comprises of two vending machines strategically placed in public spaces around the Melbourne CBD. Containing limited edition 'fashion objects' produced by over 60 Melbourne-based artists, the vending machines are activated when a member of the public inserts a $2 coin. The exhibition explores alternative interfaces of exchange for fashion, the mechanised system as a form of 'fashion dialogue'. More broadly, it thinks through discourses around public space and the role that fashion might play in it.



1 - 31 March 2010



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