Pierre Proske - 'Frame Seductions'

Gallery One
31 January – 18 February 2012
Opening night Tuesday 31 January 2012, 6pm – 8pm

Frame Seductions is an interactive work that that plays with our expectations of the video frame by creating an immersive and surreal space that lies beyond the traditional borders of the screen.
The project explores the concept of looking outside of the frame by tracking the movements of people immediately in front of a camera-enabled screen. As people turn their head to the left or to the right the image on the screen will follow their gaze beyond the confines of the frame. Viewers will then be able to access material outside of the initial frame, blurring the boundaries between the frame and the hors champ. Lurking in the sidelines of the original image, various mundane but provocative scenarios are playing themselves out much to the surprise of the viewer.

Claire Gallagher - 'Failed Gardner III'

Gallery Two
31 January – 18 February 2012
Opening night Tuesday 31 January 2012, 6pm – 8pm

Failed Gardner III attempts to investigate the urge to structure creative work through frames and containers. The elements of time, space and growth are pivotal as is the recognition that there is an element of cruelty present in the work, a determination to trap and preserve life.

BUS Projects presents: Play with Your Food II

Play with Your Food II, presented by BUS Projects
Curated by Drew Pettifer and Nella Themelios

Dinner to take place Sunday 12 February 2012, 6pm-10pm
MEYERS PLACE BAR, 20 Meyers Place, Melbourne 3000

BUS Projects presents the second instalment of Play with your Food in 2012

Play with Your Food launched in 2010 and is an ongoing series of events produced by BUS Projects. Play with Your Food draws on the current pop cultural interest in culinary artistry to explore the political and cultural ramifications of food production and consumption. The project takes its cue from artistic experiments in food from earlier periods of the avant-garde and post-war art: from F.T Marinetti’s Futurist Cookbook to the more recent public art practices of Gordon Matta-Clark or Rikrit Tiravanija.

BUS Projects is seeking a Gallery Manager

Dylan Martorell at Critical Mobility, presented by BUS Projects, Footscray Station, 3 August. Photo: David Mutch

BUS Projects is seeking a Gallery Manager for their gallery space at Donkey Wheel House in the Melbourne CBD. This is a paid contractor position with a minimum contracted period of one year. The successful applicant will be engaged for 10 hours per week at $20 per hour.

Calling for proposals - July-December 2012

Marcin Wojcik, SCENE: CREVASSE, exhibition installation view. BUS Projects 12-30 July 2011

BUS Projects is pleased to announce we are now accepting proposals for the second half of 2012 at our exhibition space in the basement of Donkey Wheel House, 673 Bourke Street. Proposals should be for the period July-December 2012.

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Andrew Tetzlaff - 'The Horizon Project'

Gallery One
29 November – 17 December
Opening night Tuesday 29 November, 6pm – 8pm

The Horizon Project is a series of visual investigations into landscape's great divider. Utilising line and simple geometries to fracture the picture plane, the project forces a series of interruptions to both real and virtual places. Sometimes an irritant and other times a destructive force, the ensuing dislocation revises the identity of the place itself – recontextualising everything from duration and time to gravity.

Santina Amato - 'Horses Shed Their Tails Once A Year In The Fall'

Gallery Two
29 November – 17 December
Opening night Tuesday 29 November, 6pm – 8pm

A universal symbol for childhood and heavily surrounded by nostalgia, Santina Amato’s initial attraction to the carousel was to explore how she could intertwine a child-like aesthetic into societies perspective of feminine beauty, attraction, sexuality and death. Horses Shed Their Tails Once A Year In The Fall draws from the sensorial experience of the carousel and is the artist’s first solo exhibition since recently returning from a three month research trip in the USA where she volunteered at an antique carousel restorer's studio in California.

Amato's work adopts a deceptively childlike charm, logic and aesthetic, combining performance video, sculptural elements and found objects to transport the viewer into a feminine surrealist wonderland; a fairytale-esque environment where reality is questioned and fantasy becomes the norm. The result is a sculptural redefinition of the moving image.