MAY 18, 2011
MUSEUM OF OLD AND NEW ART
WINTER TO SUMMER EXHIBITION PROGRAM 2011/2012
August 5 to October 3, 2011
Experimenta Utopia Now
Works by Australian and international “new media” artists reflecting our search for the perfect world. We know it is an impossible
notion – so why do we keep looking and hoping?
Experimenta Utopia Now is hands-on and innovative with lots of moving image works – from plants that respond to human gesture to
one that foreshadows the world covered in our 21st-century debri. Works from Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States,
Russia, India, China, Germany, France, Austria and Australia that dare you to ponder that the fate of the world is in your hands. A
dystopian challenge?
Location: ground floor touring galleries.
Experiment Media Arts is a Melbourne-based organisation that commissions, exhibits and promotes media and technology based art.
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Monanism – continues beyond July 19 – evolving.
The permanent collection exhibition will continue, of course; however, we plan to add new pieces and remove others over time. Time for a reprise.
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December 10, 2011 to March 26, 2012
Wim Delvoye
One of the works our visitors hate the most is Cloaca Professional (2009) the creation of Wim Delvoye. However, the ‘O’
interpretation device also reveals that visitors spend more time with this work than any other piece. Therefore, it seemed apropos to
offer a retrospective revealing more of this Belgian artist’s useless, productive art – from his pretzel series and tyres to gas cans, marble
floors, a chapel and, yes, more cloacae.
Delvoye is well known in Europe for his exploration of what it means to be human. Using X-ray images of humans and beasts and the
scatalogical works audiences love to hate he argues that art today is best used to explore, not whether we come from monkeys but how
we differ from a grain of rice or even a mouse.
This is Delvoye’s first solo exhibition in Australia.
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New Operating Hours: From July 26, 2011 the Museum will open Wednesday through Monday (Mona site will be closed
each Tuesday except for accommodation guests and functions by appointment).