Janenne Eaton

Helen Maxwell Gallery at Silvershot
3rd Floor 167 Flinders Lane Melbourne, May 2006

Nothing banner (verso) skull & crossbones 2006 enamel on canvas 226x251cm
Punk followed the Elizabethan urge to bring threatening unwanted theatre to where those with power stay. Janenne Eaton's painting show shows us that some at-the-top feel some rage and disgust at where-we-are and what we-have-become. Direct and focussed it's like New York prowess. What we need is a new collector class of Cubs.
Geoff Lowe

Packet Agency

curated by Jesse Birch (Canada)
TCB Gallery
Level 2/12 Waratah Place Melbourne, May 2006

packets contained instructions and art works which were installed by the audience
秘方新编(改编自传统相声）

我最近水土不服，浑身痒痒，洋人医生说我花粉过敏，得花钱买药。我一穷中国学生天生和他们洋人DNA不同，而且洋药都有不同副作用，所以我决定向我的中国医生朋友要个秘方（决不是因为嫌贵），我朋友跟我说他祖上正好传下来一个秘方，专治痒痒，而且正好他要回国，所以可以等他一到国内就向他爹要来寄给我。我是万分感谢，当天请他在墨尔本最大的馆子吃了一顿。第二天开车把他送到机场惜惜而别。我哥们还真够朋友不到一个星期祖传秘方就从中国寄来了，看到大信封我万分激动，手心出汗，折磨我近一个月的过敏症就要治愈了！我打开信封，里面是一个大纸包，我打开纸包发现里面还有一个纸包，我继续打开里面的这个信封并希望这是最后一个。不出所料，祖传秘方就在里面，而且只有俩字“挠挠”！
Hao Guo

Not-knowing as a shared space #12

The other side of things Bus Gallery
Colleen Ahern Neon Parc Gallery
Rosebud Victorian Tapestry Workshop

Responses to three Melbourne exhibitions by artists and people not usually involved in contemporary art

Darri Lorenzen