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“What’s Goin’ On” Series 2010 – Artist Lehan Winifred Ramsay

Dear Art Harbour people

For Your Archives!

My 2010 series What’s Goin’ On

Lehan Winifred Ramsay

Sun, 7 Mar 2010, 10:26 (Email Archive 2010)

The Shared Camera – A Memory – Archiving together while merrily contesting authorship

on 03 April 2016, in OPEN

The Shared Camera – A Memory – Archiving together while merrily contesting authorship

on 03 April 2016, in OPEN

[Bureau] Bureau Art Space

on 11 June 2015, in ARIs, QLD, QLD 1980-1990

[Bureau] Bureau Art Space

on 11 June 2015, in ARIs, QLD, QLD 1980-1990

Oblivion | A Festival of the Ephemeral Arts | Friday 10th November 1989 | A brief memory reflection by artist and curator Jay Younger

on 02 November 2021, in ARI Remix, OPEN, QLD 1980-1990

Oblivion | A Festival of the Ephemeral Arts | Friday 10th November 1989 | A brief memory reflection by artist and curator Jay Younger

on 02 November 2021, in ARI Remix, OPEN, QLD 1980-1990

(Re)Presenting 2022 | AXIS FILE | ART ZINES AS NETWORKING TOOL & COMMUNITY ARCHIVE | AXISARTPROJECTS* | Art eXtremists International Syndicate (AXIS) | Does New York Exist? + AXIS-FILE Sites of Dis-Closure 1987-1989 [Art Zine]

on 03 May 2022, in ARI Remix, Articles, OPEN

(Re)Presenting 2022 | AXIS FILE | ART ZINES AS NETWORKING TOOL & COMMUNITY ARCHIVE | AXISARTPROJECTS* | Art eXtremists International Syndicate (AXIS) | Does New York Exist? + AXIS-FILE Sites of Dis-Closure 1987-1989 [Art Zine]

on 03 May 2022, in ARI Remix, Articles, OPEN

A Personal History – Lehan Ramsay

on 07 July 2016, in ARI Remix, OPEN

A Personal History – Lehan Ramsay

on 07 July 2016, in ARI Remix, OPEN

Memory and the Photographers Gallery – Carl Warner

on 25 August 2016, in OPEN

Memory and the Photographers Gallery – Carl Warner

on 25 August 2016, in OPEN

Signature Work – Interviewing and Sense of Place: AXIS Art Projects with Liz + Val, 1988

on 25 July 2016, in OPEN

Signature Work – Interviewing and Sense of Place: AXIS Art Projects with Liz + Val, 1988

on 25 July 2016, in OPEN

That Space | Artist-Run Gallery Exchange Program 1985-1989 [Intrastate, National & International] | Nowhere Utopia & Anywhere 1987 | Bitumen River Gallery (Canberra) and That Contemporary Art Space (Brisbane)

on 01 April 2018, in OPEN

That Space | Artist-Run Gallery Exchange Program 1985-1989 [Intrastate, National & International] | Nowhere Utopia & Anywhere 1987 | Bitumen River Gallery (Canberra) and That Contemporary Art Space (Brisbane)

on 01 April 2018, in OPEN

ACTIVITIES (UQ Student Union Activities Centre)

on 13 June 2015, in ARIs, QLD, QLD 1980-1990

ACTIVITIES (UQ Student Union Activities Centre)

on 13 June 2015, in ARIs, QLD, QLD 1980-1990

RELATED ARCHIVAL RESOURCES

Brian Doherty and Lehan Ramsay, Bitumen River Gallery

on 05 September 2015,

Brian Doherty and Lehan Ramsay, Bitumen River Gallery

on 05 September 2015,

Imagery Gallery – Doug & Ruby Spowart Archives

on 26 March 2016,

Imagery Gallery – Doug & Ruby Spowart Archives

on 26 March 2016,

AXIS Art Projects – The Super Eighties Archives – Does New York Exist?

on 30 April 2016,

AXIS Art Projects – The Super Eighties Archives – Does New York Exist?

on 30 April 2016,

The Billboard Project – Curated by Lehan Ramsay and Anna Zsoldos

on 19 November 2015,

The Billboard Project – Curated by Lehan Ramsay and Anna Zsoldos

on 19 November 2015,

Demolition Show, Performance Night, 1986

on 14 April 2018,

Demolition Show, Performance Night, 1986

on 14 April 2018,

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AXIS ART PROJECTS Artists jay Younger Lehan Ramsay Paul Andrew Demolition Show Lehan Ramsay Lehan Winifred Ramsay The Observatory Collective

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What a list of lovelies!!

Stephen Stockwell

Hi Paul. Although the IMA had a guest-curated exhibition program in that period (between John Nixon’s and Peter Cripps’ directorships), the No Names exhibition was deliberately not curated, as in no one selected or rejected works. It was an open call. Malcolm Enright designed the catalogue. Ted and I called it No Names after the cheap Italian restaurant in East Sydney. I can’t remember Ted’s work in the show.

i was helping a large older American woman with The Lift she felt the need to comment that although she had seen exhibitions all over the world she had not seen anything like THIS ! it was a JOKE ! i said - perhaps if you tell your friends they will be amused to come and take a look. Well - let me tell ya - she said - i don't have any friends here. i bit my tongue

www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/no-names?

I am writing this I hope in con text with the topic and not as a bit of gratuitous nostalgia from a tedious old fart. In Brisbane 1967 the only game in town in regard to any semblance of Avant Garde art practice was The Queensland Contemporary Art Society. Roy Churcher, then Secretary I think, considered that it's younger members should have their own voice and fora for expression in regard to the new waves of international art practice emerging. The group was formed and to launch it an event organised. We were going to have our own little bit of San Francisco psychedelic " happening ". The program was a screening of Underground short films with suitable cool music. At St Mary's church hall , Kangaroo Point an environment was created . A large semi-egg shape dome was constructed out of paper filled with shredded newsprint about 500 mm deep. Strobe lights installed and Frank Zappa music blasting at obscene decibel levels. The punters loved the films and at the end demolished the props in a wild frenzy of torn paper and confetti to the soundtrack of "Call Any Vegetable ". To empty the hall we loaded vans with the shredded newsprint and bodies and distributed it all over Qld. Uni and MtCootha. The next day an article ran in The Courier Mail, " Snow on MtCootha. We didn't have proper, responsible ARIs then .

Nice to see Luke Roberts there. Have you ever cheated with Alex Mackay and what places he went to then?

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