Flash Night Program

2012 / 2010 / 2009 / 2008 / 2007 / 2006 / 2005 / 2004 / 2003

Kings ARI’s Flash Night series accommodates experimental, temporary or site specific projects as well as a live music and performance. These one-night-only occurrences are essentially an opening and closing in one, an exhibition, an event, a spectacle. Flash Nights normally happen on the Monday preceding the opening of our regular exhibitions, and are programmed on the fly.

Artists are offered all three gallery spaces free of charge. Kings ARI will run a bar and provide online promotion (Facebook, email-out.) The artists do the rest.

A gallery floor plan can be downloaded in the proposals section. Artists may only install on the day of the event. Bump-out and gallery repairs should occur before midday the following day.

Should you wish to express interest in staging a Flash Night or need more info, please email info@kingsartistrun.com.au with the subject heading “Flash Night”. Please include a brief description of the project/performance (including preferred dates), low-res support material and CV’s of key participants.

Previous Flash Nights:

Popup Projects

FLASH NIGHT
21 NOVEMBER 6-8pm
An Exercise in Collaboration

An Exercise in Collaboration (Working title) is an experimental project by Popup Collective that explores the processes, intricacies and challenges involved in working collaboratively.

Through weekly meetings over four months, the members of Popup Collective have been working towards a collaborative outcome. At each meeting they experiment and play with different ideas and materials documenting them as they are workshopped and then rejected. Struggling to find a collective outcome, the group form rules and restrictions to structure their play before finally agreeing to disagree. Culminating in a flash night at Kings ARI, the artists will present their collaborative process as a live performance alongside video, drawing and written documentation from their meetings. The outcomes are unscripted and unknown, however the artists will work for a final intensive five hour period prior to the opening, in an attempt to resolve their collaborative dilemma.

FLASH NIGHT
Paraphernalia

Kate Vassallo

Kate Vassallo’s PARAPHERNALIA will be a one night display of performance and live art at Kings ARI. It will be the first staging of this Canberra based artist’s work in Melbourne and is set to be a night filled with experimentation. Vassallo has regurgitated a single piece into various time-based mediums. The artist wants you to witness how far source material can be manipulated before it’s completely destroyed. Vassallo states: ‘I really wanted to see what happens when you take written text off a page and manipulate it through different mediums’. The results are diverse, ranging from live performance and sound, to animation. It creates a captivating experience for the viewer.

MON 30TH JUNE 2011

Better Than Art

FOR ONE EVENING ONLY

Monday 2nd May 2011, 6 – 8.30PM

Free Event!

Aaron Carter + Amy Marjoram + Andrew Atchison + Andrew Kershaw + Ben Raynor + Briony Barr + Candice Cranmer + Charis McKittrick + Clinton Milroy & Kevin Chin + Devon Ackermann + Hao Guo + Joel Zika + Kate Robertson + Ka-Yin Kwok + Keith Wong + Kel Glaister + Kieran Stewart + Kiron Robinson + Lily Feng + Lou Hubbard + Louis Porter + Marion Piper + Michael Meneghetti + Paul Yore + Rebecca Adams + Remie Cibis + Sanja Pahoki + Siân Darling + Tamsin Green + Yvette King

Curated by Amy Marjoram

Better Than Art is part of the Kings ARI Flash Night program of one-night-only occurrences.

Local sound artists
White Altar (w/ Pissypaw + Omen), Dan Bell (w/ Rex Veal) and Eko Eko Azarak.

Wednesday 30th June 2010
More on White Altar.
More on Eko Eko Azarak.

Brad Haylock presents a on-off event as part of our Flash Night series.
(Click poster to enlarge.)

The MOVEable Feast

A nomadic experience of two creative expressions in one shared space. The collaborative and contrasting consequences of such a joint experience…

…the MOVEable Feast.

Thursday 29th April 2010
6:00 – Kings Artist Run Initiative – The John Taylor Electric Guitar Quartet
7:00 – Secret Space – Xani Kolac
8:00 – Brood Box Gallery – NMIT Laptop Orchestra + works by Ed Bechervaise

Kings Relaunch Celebration

Monday, 8th March 2010, 6:00-9:30pm.

Kings Artist Run Initiative (ARI) is proud to announce its re-launch party to celebrate new and exciting changes to the focus of this long-standing Melbourne ARI. After eight years of presenting the Melbourne art scene with emerging, dynamic and challenging contemporary art, Kings has decided to expand the dialogue with new opportunities for the wider creative community. We also have a sexy new look and a revamped website! To celebrate our re-launch, we will be hosting a night of video, performance and sound works by leading Melbourne and interstate artists. Playing on the night will be Snawklor (Nathan Gray, Dylan Martorell + Duncan Blachford), Optical Eyes and Chronox, accompanied by video works by local and interstate artists.

The Lost Girls

Monday, 24th November 2008, 6:00 – 8:00pm

Artists: Toula Valasis, Gen Bailey, Catherine Bourne, Lauren Bamford, Celeste Potter, Eva Collado & Victoria Lee The Lost Girls is a one off group event, showcasing eight girls… all of whom reside in Melbourne, at least some of the time, and all of whom are very creative. Encompassing photography, illustration, film and sculpture, The Lost Girls aims to communicate a desire for belonging.

Flash Volume One

Monday, 2nd June 2008, 6:00 – 8:00pm

Artists: Jeana Bajic, Simon Berman & Lachlan Mooney, Anna Gilby, Olle Holmberg, Ben Mastwyk and Molly & Eve. Curated by Victoria Bennett and Clare Rae. An exciting one night exhibition comprising Video, Performance, Sound and Photography. Together these works will highlight the possibilities of the space and create a dynamic event.

Things in a Room

2nd October, 2008, 6:00 – 8:00pm

Artists: Andrew Atchison, Imogen Beynon, Remie Cibis, Kel Glaister, Tamsin Green, Ardi Gunawan, Hao Guo, Yvette King, Amy Marjoram, Anna-Maria O’Keefe, Stephen Palmer, Nathan Pye, Ben Raynor, Mel Upton, Keith Wong. Curated by: Kel Glaister, Tamsin Green, Imogen Beynon Things in a room was the developmental showing of Objects in Space, and was presented at the conclusion of Next Wave’s Kickstart program. The exhibition took place at Kings ARI in October. For one night only, 15 artists took over the peripheral spaces of Kings, including the office, stairwell landing, bathroom and more. This exhibition showcased both the artists and methodology of the Objects in Space project. The works ranged from Yvette King’s popcorn machine secreted away in the gallery wall, occasionally flinging hot popcorn on an unsuspecting audience, to Keith Wong’s very subtle ’something’ written into a bar of soap. The main spaces of the gallery were left empty, spacious and clear; but in all the hidden corners of the gallery the works were planning their invasion of the city. For more information visit www.objectsinspace.net/