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THE GLORIOUS UNDEAD - A new media festival of emerging artists Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris and Marcel Cooper met at COFA where they both study Masters of Administration and work at the COFA student organisation Arc @ COFA. . ”t artists and/or curators that are producing determined and brave works in Sydney right nowWe are interested in creating new links, new collaborations and new exhibitions which celebrate the grea“a strong force with ambitious creative aims. are and/orreating exhibition opportunities for new work from emerging Sydney artists. As a collaboration currently focused on c collaboration is a fruitful one - Bronwyn and Marcel’sare passionate about facilitating new collaborations between artists and curators and to exhibit and promote new artworks by emerging local artists. Theyrmance and installation. Our main area of interest is in new media: video, sound, perfo.emerging artists and/or curatorsfor , emerging curators who put on events, exhibitions and festivals Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris and Marcel Cooperclub based at COFA running under the guidance of is a curators and artists and/or Bronwyn Bailey is an emerging curator, artist, producer, and performer. Her artistic work takes on many forms including the online comedy series, ‘Another Day, Another Diet’ and the online blog ‘Stop Anne Geddes’. She is also recognised in some circles as ‘that naked girl’, who does strange yet tantalising performances around Sydney’s many underground venues. After completing a Fine Arts Degree in Time Based Art in 2007, she now works part time at Arc @ COFA organising events. She recently became the curator of Somedays Gallery in Surry Hills – a gallery within a store. ‘I love mixing up my projects and never being in the same place for too long.’ She has just released the inaugural issue of a new magazine ‘Das Super Paper’the love child of the ARI Rococo Productions. The magazine aims to be a cultural dipstick of the local artistic community. Marcel Cooper is currently the co-ordinator of Kudos Gallery in Paddington, curating and installing exhibitions on a weekly basis as well as looking after operational management of the gallery. In June this year she curated a major show in the gallery’s program entitled Kudos to Kudos. This exhibition was a 10-year Birthday celebration that featured esteemed past exhibitors such as Claire Healy, Sean Cordeiro - soda_jerk, and the Kingpins, alongside emerging Sydney artists. As a curator Marcel’s interests lie in creating opportunities for new work collaborations between artists and curators that lead to altered perspectives and perceptions. She also works as an artist in installation and new media, focusing on intimate connections to material (generally clay), space and perceptions of time.

and/or is a curators and artists club based at COFA. We are passionate about facilitating new collaborations between artists and curators and to exhibit and promote new works by emerging local artists. As a collaboration and/or is a strong force with ambitious creative aims. We are interested in events which

celebrate and critique the great artists and/or curators that are producing determined and brave works in Sydney right now. The next project of and/or is The Glorious Undead: a festival of living works by local emerging artists in new media including sound, performance, installation, video and film. The festival runs for 14 days (from 1-14 February, 2009) at three venues: Somedays Gallery – Surry Hills, Kudos Gallery at COFA – Paddington and an Outdoor Performance and picnic. And/or aim to enrich and celebrate the creative nature of the people living, working and playing in the Paddington, Surry Hills and Darlinghurst area. We recognise and respect that artists are doing it tough in this “global financial downturn” whatever that may mean. We recognise the art of the living, the un-dead, the art that is surviving through the cracks on morsels of bread and cake. The two-week event includes two exhibitions, artist and curator talks, live performances and sound events, walking tours and a closing night Valentine’s Day broken hearts party. All of the festival events are free and open to the public who will get the chance to witness exciting new works by local artists, and engage in some discussion of new media practices. The Glorious Undead refers to the celebration of the living, the surviving. In Kudos Gallery there will be a darkened hall, full of magic and terror. There will be skipping CDs and unpolished splinters of thought, there will be merrygo-rounds and underwater meanderings. It is a festival like none before and none to come. Somedays Gallery will be home to a plethora of dioramas, a few dozen other worlds to park your car in for an afternoon. Bring your camera to witness a future you might never have met. Darwin’s theory put to the artistic test… WHEN: 1-14 February, 2009 WHERE: Kudos Gallery and Somedays Gallery WHAT: A world of intrigue, terror and fantasy are brought to life in a summer art festival presented by the Sydney collective and/or. New works by local emerging artists in new media and installation will be unleashed in February 2009 at Kudos Gallery and Somedays Gallery. OPENING NIGHT: 5pm Tuesday February 3 Kudos Gallery, Paddington, www.thegloriousundead.com