28 November 2014 — 21 February 2015Experimenta Recharge: 6th International Biennial of Media ArtExperimenta Recharge focuses on art works inspired by the past, posing the

question: Does knowledge change when it is presented in different cultural

contexts and technological forms? Curator Jonathan Parsons Countries

represented Australia, Germany/Brazil, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, United

Arab Emirates, USA. Artists Cake Industries, Maree Clarke, Maitha Demithan,

Christy Dena, Anaisa Franco, Michaela Gleave, Korinsky, Svenja Kratz, La Société

Anonyme, Khaled Sabsabi, Leisa Shelton, teamLab,Tele Visions, Darrin Verhagen

and Stuart McFarlane, Marsha Tupitsyn, Ei Wada, Yunkurra Billy Atkins & Sohan

Ariel Hayes, Raymond Zada. Public Program 28 November: Curator’s tour with

artists; Video Void – Australian Video Art book launch with Matthew Perkins;

Google and the World Brain + Q&A with Justine Hyde and Danny van der Kleij. 29

November: Artist talk: Ei Wada; Artist panel discussion: Echoes from the past with

Svenja Kratz, Khaled Sabsabi and Abel Korinsky; Digital age archive makers with

Leisa Shelton, Danny Van Der Kliej and Masha Tupitsyn; Embodied Knowledge with

Anaisa Franco; 27, 28, 29 November and 14 February: Mapping Out Media Art, Leisa

Shelton; February 11: Artist talk: Cake Industries. Saturday/Sunday 14/15 February:

dusk to dawn: Experimenta Recharge @ White Night Melbourne.

25 MarchLaunch of the RMIT Art Collection OnlineFeaturing over 1000 artworks in a searchable data base for students and

researchers. Access at: www.rmitartcollection.com.au

20 March — 30 May Japanese Art After Fukushima: Return of GodzillaSix Japanese artists respond to the events at the Fukushima nuclear power plant

as a result of the 2011 tsunami. Part of the Art + Climate = Change 2015 Festival

presented by Climarte: Arts for a Safe Climate, identifying and celebrating

Australian and international artists working with environmental ideas. Curator

Linda Williams Artists Ichi Ikeda, Manabu Ikeda, Yutaka Kobayashi, Takashi

Kuribayashi, Ken + Julia Yonetani, Finger Pointing Worker Public Program 25

March: Curator talk: Linda Williams; 7 May Special Event: Who Speaks For The

Earth? Energy, Politics and Art Public forum, Deakin Edge, Federation Square:

Chair: Linda Williams, Helen Caldicott, William L. Fox, Peter Christoff, Kate Rigby

and David Buckland. An RMIT Gallery and Art + Climate = Change 2015 Festival

event, presented by Climarte: Arts for a Safe Climate in conjunction with the AEGIS

Research Network. Kindly supported by Melbourne Conversations, the City of

Melbourne’s program of free talks.

20 March — 30 May Unfolding: New Indian Textiles Contemporary Indian textile designers and artists utilise and transform traditional

craft techniques in the context of international art and fashion. Curator Maggie

Baxter Artists Abraham and Thakore, Akaaro, péro, bai lou, Monika Correa, Kirit

Dave, 11.11 / eleven eleven, Goodearth, GreenEarth, Swati Kalsi, Mayank Mansingh

Kaul, Abdulaziz Alimohammad Khatri, Irfan Khatri, Tushar Kumar, Meera Mehta,

Gopika Nath, Jagannath Panda, Manisha Parekh, Play Clan, Ravage, Raw Mango,

Shrujan, Smallshop, Parul Thaker, Vankar Shamji Vishram. Public Program 27

March: Curator and author of Unfolding, Maggie Baxter with Himanshu Dogra,

Parul Thaker and Bappaditya Biswas.

30 Aprilworld-line: ELISION EnsembleELISION, Australia’s pre-eminent international contemporary music ensemble,

perform the Australian premiere of Richard Barrett’s world-line cycle, Timothy

McCormack’s Heavy Matter for solo trombone, and Liza Lim’s Weaver of Fictions.

Artists Ben Marks (trombone), Genevieve Lacey (alto Ganassi recorder), Tristram

Williams (piccolo trumpet, flugel horn), Daryl Buckley (electric lapsteel guitar),

Peter Neville (percussion). Presented by RMIT Gallery in collaboration with SIAL

(Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory) Sound Studios, and recorded for

inclusion in the RMIT Sonic Arts Collection.

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MAIN IMAGE__ EXPERIMENTA RECHARGE Maitha Demithan: Ayal 2012, Sanawat 2010, To the moon 2009, scanographies, installation view. Photograph: Mark Ashkanasy. 1 __ EXPERIMENTA

RECHARGE Stuart McFarlane & Darrin Verhagen with Toby Brodel: A series of small wire objects (many of them uninteresting), installation views. Photographs: Mark Ashkanasy. 2__ JAPANESE ART

AFTER FUKUSHIMA Yutaka Kobayashi: Absorption Ripples–Melt down melt away 2015, zeolite, lichen, installation detail. Photograph: Mark Ashkanasy. 3__ UNFOLDING: NEW INDIAN TEXTILES Monika Correa, Foggy Day 2007, unbleached cotton warp and hund-spun dyed wool weft. 4__ ELISION

ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE: WORLD-LINE Top row, left to right: Ben Marks; Genevieve Lacey; Daryl Buckley. Bottom row, left to right: Peter Neville; Tristram Williams; sound technicians Jim Atkins, Jeffrey Hannam (seated), Gabriel Sergio Nunez De Arco (standing). Photographs: Vicki Jones.

20 March — 30 May Terry Burrows: Backs of BanarasA selection from 1008 photographs by Terry Burrows, of the backs of Indians

seated on the steps by the Ganges. The photographs are a form of anonymous

portraiture that present a composite picture of India across caste, class, religion

and seasons, while avoiding the politics of photographing the face. Curator

Suzanne Davies Public Program 20 March: Artist talk, Terry Burrows.

RMIT Gallery will be closed from 1 June to 17 September for essential building maintenance. Gallery staff will be available to assist with

research and media queries regarding exhibitions and the RMIT Art Collection.

25 September — 24 October Performing MobilitiesTraces of creative journeys form expositions that explore and reimagine movement,

place and event with local relevance and global resonance. Curator Mick Douglas

Artists Jude Anderson, Chris Barry, Kaya Barry, Lucy Bleach, Nadia Cusimano, Kim

Donaldson, Mick Douglas, Paul Gazzola, Jondi Keane, Graeme Miller, Open Spatial

Workshop, Pablo Patelli, David Thomas, Laurene Vaughan, Giuditta Vendrame.

Public Programs 25 September: Artist talk, Graeme Miller. Over the course of

the exhibition mobile performances will depart from and return to RMIT Gallery in a

fluid program of activities.

25 September — 24 OctoberJulio Falagán: Power to the People!Spanish artist Julio Falagán’s work questions power and the established status

quo through humour and irony, inviting audiences to become art collectors by

taking home posters of the five original works created through the manipulation

of popular prints bought in flea markets. Public Program 24 September:

Questioning Power: The media and popular culture, forum with Dr Antonio Castillo

and Ciro Márquez.

6 November 2015 — 20 February 2016Geniale Dilletanten: Subculture in 1980s GermanyThe informal art and music movement of the experimental German underground

Geniale Dilletanten (brilliant amateurs) had its roots in Punk-Rock and Dada and

took its name from the deliberately misspelled title of a 1981 concert held in

Berlin’s Tempodrom. Geniale Dilletanten has become synonomous with a brief

period of artistic upheaval marked by cross-genre experimentation and the use

of new electronic equipment by performance artists and music groups. This

international touring exhibition by the Goethe-Institut portrays 1980s German

subculture in all its intense experimentation, presenting the most comprehensive

survey to date. Curators Mathilde Weh in collaboration with Aline Fieker Artists

Includes filmmakers, artists and designers from West and East Germany, as well

as the bands Einstürzende Neubauten, Die Tödliche Doris, Der Plan, Freiwillige

Selbstkontrolle (F.S.K), Palais Schaumburg, Ornament und Verbrechen, and

Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft (D.A.F.) Public Program A range of events

reflecting the wide-ranging cross-genre experimentation of the era.

19 November2015 Ursula Hoff Annual LectureCoinciding with Geniale Dilletanten: Subculture in 1980s Germany, RMIT Gallery

is proud to host the 2015 Ursula Hoff Annual lecture, Brilliant Amateurs – The

Influence and Legacy of 1980s Creative Subculture. Speakers to be advised.

5 __ UNFOLDING: NEW INDIAN TEXTILES RMIT Gallery installation view. Photograph: Mark Ashkanasy. 6 __ BACKS OF BANARAS Terry Burrows: Banaras Backs #12, 2013, archival print on Hahnemuehle Fine Art paper, mounted on Dibond. Courtesy of the artist. 7 __ PERFORMING

MOBILITIES Graeme Miller, Beheld (detail, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom), 2006–2015. Photograph: Graeme Miller. Courtesy of the artist. 8__ POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Julio Falagán, Pretendientes, inkjet print, 2015. Courtesy of the artist. 9__ GENIALE DILLETANTEN Kubistischer Schlagzeuger, 1987. Photograph ©Der Plan. 10 __ Punks in einem besetzten Haus im Prenzlauer Berg, Ost-Berlin, 1982. Photograph ©Ilse Ruppert. 11 __ Einstürzende Neubauten, Festival ‘Berlin Atonal’, SO36, Berlin, 1982. Photograph ©Anno Dittmer.

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