Sydney Biennale Excursion 2012
Dates: Monday, 23 July – Thursday, 26 July 2012
4 days - 3 nights
COST: $325

Please note there are ONLY 40 places - pay your deposit asap to secure your place.

Accommodation: YHA The Rocks

Stay at Sydney's only backpacker hostel in the city's historic harbourside precinct - The Rocks. Explore Sydney's history and walk to all the major art sights whilst staying in the heart of the city. Multishare accommodation, all with ensuites and many with Sydney Harbour and Sydney Opera House views. YHA's newest Sydney hostel is the place to make the most of your visit to Sydney.
COSTS:
$325 includes shared accommodation (4 persons), breakfast, Sydney bus transfer, flights.
Non returnable deposit $175 (to be paid by 10 March to secure place).*
Final payment $150 ( to be paid be 9th May).
*Full amount can be paid by the 10th March



What’s On:
18th Biennale of Sydney: all our relations
Artistic Directors: Catherine de Zegher and Gerald McMaster

The 18th Biennale of Sydney, all our relations, intends to focus on inclusionary practices of generative thinking, such as collaboration, conversation and compassion, in the face of coercion and destruction. With the creation of conditions for an encounter in consonance with our surrounding world, this event will bring emphasis to what is already happening at large. Drawing on the possibility of the present, the Biennale will emerge from the engagement of all participants by using a model that begins with two curators in dialogue. This matrix of conversation will extend to both artists and audiences in a multi-vocal correspondence.
all our relations will rely on these various exchanges, affinities and empathies as its dynamic structure – the vascular and cellular structure and sinew of a kind of living, breathing organism – from which the Biennale’s meanings will grow. Artists will work in a context that allows for mutual recognition and audiences from differing backgrounds will be part of this continual development, finding their own direction in these connections. It is in this altered attention to one another – in the meeting and making of ideas together – that constructive consequence can follow.
The 18th Biennale of Sydney will be rooted in storytelling as it is currently being re-imagined as a coming-into-being in relation. In the reciprocity that is storytelling, both teller and listener inhabit the space of the story. Telling stories connects us and allows us to care, to be; it fosters collaboration; it aggregates knowledge and generates new ideas; it ignites change; and, ultimately, builds community. In this matrix, the different projects can be compared to a set of story lines, which artists, curators and audiences relate and translate. Through this process, a collective composition or new Gesamtkunstwerk is accomplished in the active generation of meanings realised by all those who take part, each taking their stories home and beyond ...
Venues include: MCA: Sydney Biennale, Art Gallery of NSW: Sydney biennale
and Cockatoo Island (free ferry).


Light Sculptures "Over 40 stunning light art installations" Circular quay 6pm - midnight (Every evening)
Vivid Sydney


The White Rabbit Art Gallery - Group tour of exciting new exhibition

The White Rabbit Collection is one of the world’s largest and most significant collections of contemporary Chinese art. Founded by Kerr and Judith Neilson, it focuses on works produced after 2000.
The origins of the Collection go back to the late 1990s, when Judith Neilson engaged Wang Zhiyuan, a Chinese artist then living in Sydney, as her art tutor. He introduced her to the astonishing explosion of creativity taking place in China in the wake of the “Opening Up” that had begun in 1989. Mrs Neilson began buying works, but soon ran out of space to hang them. She and her husband then decided to open a gallery that would make the exciting world of contemporary Chinese art available to all Australians.

The White Rabbit Gallery, a specially converted knitting factory near Sydney’s Central Station, has four floors of exhibition space as well as a theatrette, a library and a teahouse. Only a fraction of the Collection is on show at any time. The entire contents of the gallery are rehung twice a year.
An excellent group tour has been organized.


The Brett Whiteley Gallery - Drawing Workshop


The Brett Whiteley Studio, 2 Raper Street, Surry Hills, was the workplace and home of Australian artist, Brett Whiteley (1939–92). Since 1995 it has been managed as a museum by the Art Gallery of NSW
A drawing workshop has been organised for the group. Drawing material provided



AUSTRALIAN CENTRE FOR PHOTOGRAPHY – group tour
The Australian Centre for Photography (ACP) is a national centre for the presentation, dissemination and creative learning of photo-based practice. With over 35 years of experience, it is the longest running contemporary art space in Australia.
The ACP is a not-for-profit organisation, assisted by the NSW Government through Arts NSW, the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. Since 2004 it has also been in receipt of support from the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of Australian, state and territory governments, in recognition of its leading role and international reputation.
257 Oxford StreetPaddington NSW 2021
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Gallery Hours: Tue-Fri 12.00pm - 7.00pmSat & Sun 10.00am - 6.00pm Creative Learning Hours: Mon-Sun 10am-6.00pm