Hi all,
the weedy tour (card #14 ) is on again, this time in the Hunter Valley.
Please check it out if you are in the area or check out the Database spin-off , WeedyConnection and the attached blog.

DIEGO BONETTO – Weedy Connection Tour
Wollombi will have its very own WEED TOUR…

This installation by Diego Bonetto takes visitors along the creek behind the Stonehurst Cedar Creek Winery Cellar.
The tour will guide participants through a number of display panels highlighting some plants commonly known as weeds. The resulting sporadic info-points are augmented by a reader and a map that the visitors will use to discover the plants in their habitat.

The framing of “illegal” and unwanted flora within a spectacle context will draw attention to the concept of “permissible species” as a social construct. Weeds are defined by a nation’s laws, and what is declared a weed in one place may be a precious resource in another. There is a significant metaphorical connection between this definition of “weed” and the arbitrary restriction imposed on human migration by national governments.

Diego Bonetto (aka Nobody) is a Sydney-based multimedia artist.
Bonetto’s interdisciplinary approach to art-making allows him to work collaboratively and individually, with no loyalty to particular media and materials. He is a key member of artist group SquatSpace and the Network of UnCollectable Artists. His activities create dynamic social criticism resulting in site-specific, project-driven interventions.

http://www.nobodys.info/
http://www.squatspace.com/
http://weedyconnection.com/

And here is a short doco of the previous weedy project Weedkiller/Pestcontroller

Danielle Freakley recently organised an exhibition in Melbourne, in which each artist was “exhibited” alongside his/her artwork. From the pictures, you can see, in fact, a gaffa-tape enclosure, kinda like a zoological cage, in which each artist had to remain (mute) for the duration of the show. The audience was asked to refrain from talking to the artists, or each other.
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Three highlights from the NUCA e-list:

Amazing drawings by mazen kerbaj in Lebanon (thanks to Zanny for the tip off).

A set of documentary photographs from the pvi collective’s tts: route 30 (thanks to cicada).

and finally

The NUCA bubblegum cards now online! [fronts, backs] (these will soon be embedded within the NUCA site…)

(and while yer at it, you can see pix of them being traded last year at various swap-meets…)