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Chronic Manageable Conditions Opening Friday 27 May, 6-8pm The works in Chronic Manageable Conditions began on a journey where I recovered from a debilitating medical condition. In order to avoid the grand history of painting, I enjoyed an indulgence in drawing, or making works on paper, partly inspired in this direction by exposure to the graphic work of artists from Jogjakarta while I was living in Indonesia. Drawing, in this project, is direct, responsive, immediate and raw. It is a form of thinking out loud, and can also engage the body in a physical way, outside of the frame. I respond to this immediacy as a metaphor for living in Darwin, compelling us to be in the moment. I observe artists revelling in the margins here, dancing to our own tune. I prefer a messier subjectivity, something that can contain a multitude of ideas and aspirations, be it identity politics, romantic expression, thought bubbles, dreamscapes, surreal associations, queerness, responses to the street, media and screen life, to the daily complexities of contemporary life. This ability to respond is important to me, against the barrage of info and power operations we are otherwise compelled to ingest. Once I began this project, it took on a life of its own, digging out moments in a contested realm of visions; in some cases digging out old diaries from my art school days for source material. Recurrent themes seep up in clusters: racial politics, sexual politics and pleasures, (the queering of) native flora and fauna, the body, mortality, my Catholic upbringing, my life as a hyphen – a space in-between. These also reflect an ecology of childhood. I am a war baby, Mum being from North Vietnam and Dad being an officer in the RAAF. A marriage of enemies, apparently, with its own rich baggage. Andy Ewing has worked as an artist, curator, and arts project manager over the past two decades. He undertook formal studies in visual art in Sydney during the late 1980s/early 1990s and soon after held his first solo exhibition in Sydney. Chronic Manageable Conditions represents his first solo exhibition in a public art gallery and a concerted return to his practice after a long hiatus. His curatorial achievements include Monster Pop!, Museum and Art Gallery of the NT, 2015/15 (co-curated with Fiona Carter), and Territorial, NCCA/Canberra Contemporary Art Space, 2007 (co-curated with David Broker). In 2015 Andy was judged overall winner of NCCA’s Members’ show (Milestone) and of Darwin’s annual Art of Pride exhibition. Andy belongs to Yum Cha Arts collective which focuses on multi-artform projects, developing and producing collaborations with Asian and NT artists. 1/0

Contemporary Australian video art Unco is a selection of recent video work by seven Australian artists/artist-duos showing in NCCA’s Screen Room. The selection is curated by Ian Haig, Senior Lecturer in Expanded Studio Practice, School of Art, RMIT University, Melbourne, and premiered at The Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, in August 2013. In tune with the Australian vernacular of its title (‘unco’ meaning ‘physically uncoordinated’), Unco ‘plays with the idea of wrong thinking, odd audio/visual pairings … ‘. ‘Many of the works’, writes Haig, ‘offer a re-reading and negotiate popular culture in different ways, providing a perverse and darkly humorous take on the worlds of contemporary screen culture’. Featuring the work of Soda Jerk, Ian Haig, Heath Franco, Emile Zile, Martine Corompt, Philip Brophy, and Deigo Ramirez. 1/0

Do I Seduce You 25 June - 17 July Tarzan Jungle Queen is a multi-disciplinary, queer, non-binary artist living in Darwin. They bring together graphic art, word collage, photography, film, and screenprint to create works that deconstruct ideas of gender. Tarzan investigates their own body and gender journey with a distant lens – they find it erotic to be both the observer and the observed. This exhibition ‘Do I seduce you?’ is a memoir piece that explores Tarzan’s experience as a queer-bodied human finding a voice. Sometimes there are no words or blurbs that can sum up the explosion of confusion that comes from within; the juices that need to leak out. Do I seduce you? gives a queer voice to an unexplainable body. Artist Tarzan Jungle Queen 1/0

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Off The Walls ‘Off The Walls’, NCCA’s VR group exhibition curated by Rita Macarounas with Lukas Bendel in charge of the VR Tech, Projection Mapping and Video Editing. Artwork made by the use of VR has the uniqueness to be able, not only to express the precise moment of the subject matter’s form but the entire journey of its creation. Our viewers will be immersed in a moving story! My aspiration as the curator of this show is to engage our audience in a novel experience using high tech creatively. Virtual reality is the creation of a virtual environment, in this case, artwork, presented to our senses in such a way that we experience it as if we were actually there while it was created by the artists. Seven local Artists, Bill Davies, Benita Mills Christian Bok, Jimmy Bamble, Jonathon Saunders, Kaye Strange, & Kelly Vains have created artworks with the use of Virtual Reality (VR). It was for the majority of the artists an inaugural encounter with this medium. I asked the participating artists to contribute one sentence with regards to their VR experience; ‘Loved it, VR has unlimited possibilities and no mess.’ Jimmy Bamble ‘VR has opened up new ways to explore and develop art. I also see it as an invaluable tool for animators and filmmakers for visual development and to tell unique stories,’ John Saunders. ‘Almost conquered the nausea, now to conquer Tilt Brush’, Bill Davies. ‘Creatively interacting in a three-dimension environment is a full sensory experience, which is both fascinating and fun, as you explore and manipulate the medium in new and exciting ways’, Kelly Vains. ‘I have taken a leap into the virtual, three-dimensional space of art-making. An experience that has exploded my perception and attachment to traditional medium’, Kaye Strange. 1/0

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Annual Members’ Show 1/0

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