THE GLORIOUS UNDEAD - A new media festival of emerging artists

Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris and Marcel Cooper met at COFA where they

both study Masters of Administration and work at the COFA student
organisation Arc @ COFA.

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Bronwyn Bailey is an emerging curator, artist, producer, and performer. Her

artistic work takes on many forms including the online comedy series,
‘Another Day, Another Diet’ and the online blog ‘Stop Anne Geddes’. She is
also recognised in some circles as ‘that naked girl’, who does strange yet
tantalising performances around Sydney’s many underground venues. After
completing a Fine Arts Degree in Time Based Art in 2007, she now works part
time at Arc @ COFA organising events. She recently became the curator of
Somedays Gallery in Surry Hills – a gallery within a store. ‘I love mixing up
my projects and never being in the same place for too long.’ She has just
released the inaugural issue of a new magazine ‘Das Super Paper’the love
child of the ARI Rococo Productions. The magazine aims to be a cultural
dipstick of the local artistic community.

Marcel Cooper is currently the co-ordinator of Kudos Gallery in Paddington,

curating and installing exhibitions on a weekly basis as well as looking after
operational management of the gallery. In June this year she curated a major
show in the gallery’s program entitled Kudos to Kudos. This exhibition was a
10-year Birthday celebration that featured esteemed past exhibitors such as
Claire Healy, Sean Cordeiro - soda_jerk, and the Kingpins, alongside
emerging Sydney artists. As a curator Marcel’s interests lie in creating
opportunities for new work collaborations between artists and curators that
lead to altered perspectives and perceptions. She also works as an artist in
installation and new media, focusing on intimate connections to material
(generally clay), space and perceptions of time.

and/or is a curators and artists club based at COFA. We are passionate about
facilitating new collaborations between artists and curators and to exhibit and
promote new works by emerging local artists. As a collaboration and/or is a
strong force with ambitious creative aims. We are interested in events which
celebrate and critique the great artists and/or curators that are producing
determined and brave works in Sydney right now.

The next project of and/or is The Glorious Undead: a festival of living works
by local emerging artists in new media including sound, performance,
installation, video and film.

The festival runs for 14 days (from 1-14 February, 2009) at three venues:
Somedays Gallery – Surry Hills, Kudos Gallery at COFA – Paddington and
an Outdoor Performance and picnic. And/or aim to enrich and celebrate the
creative nature of the people living, working and playing in the Paddington,
Surry Hills and Darlinghurst area. We recognise and respect that artists are
doing it tough in this “global financial downturn” whatever that may mean. We
recognise the art of the living, the un-dead, the art that is surviving through the
cracks on morsels of bread and cake.

The two-week event includes two exhibitions, artist and curator talks, live
performances and sound events, walking tours and a closing night Valentine’s
Day broken hearts party. All of the festival events are free and open to the
public who will get the chance to witness exciting new works by local artists,
and engage in some discussion of new media practices.

The Glorious Undead refers to the celebration of the living, the surviving. In
Kudos Gallery there will be a darkened hall, full of magic and terror. There
will be skipping CDs and unpolished splinters of thought, there will be merry-
go-rounds and underwater meanderings. It is a festival like none before and
none to come. Somedays Gallery will be home to a plethora of dioramas, a
few dozen other worlds to park your car in for an afternoon. Bring your
camera to witness a future you might never have met. Darwin’s theory put to
the artistic test…

WHEN: 1-14 February, 2009

WHERE: Kudos Gallery and Somedays Gallery
WHAT: A world of intrigue, terror and fantasy are brought to life in a summer
art festival presented by the Sydney collective and/or. New works by local
emerging artists in new media and installation will be unleashed in February
2009 at Kudos Gallery and Somedays Gallery.

OPENING NIGHT: 5pm Tuesday February 3 Kudos Gallery, Paddington,

www.thegloriousundead.com