Room 1
POP SCREENINGS + KARAOKE GREEN ROOM

MANHUA WONDERLANDS DVD
Screen works developed through media art community workshops underscores a karaoke green room and links into a rhizomatic Simultaneous State-Wide Screening.

JOE WALSH (UK): MISTER MIGUEL
Lin King performances practice with 80s pop video aesthetics, a music video for Kevin Blechdom’s ‘Mister Miguel. A woman emerges from smoke. She has something to tell you against the modern pop beat. Lights blink on and off to various delusional sexual thoughts. Referencing David Bowie in his video to “Heroes”, it is an undoing of his performance, reconfigured by a woman.

JOSEPHINE STARRS (AUST): POCKET CALCULATOR
A reworking of Kraftwerk’s infamous Pocket Calculator track.

Room 02
SPAT+LOOGIE

NATIONAL TREASURES
A wild mash up of patriotic karaoke and the pleasures of tourism. Spat+loogie take nationalistic songs and inject them with a healthy dose of cynicism, irony and kitsch. ‘Australia’ the video, uses layered video effects to remix existing clips of cultural imagery with spat+loogie’s own earnest nationalistic voices. Indulging in stereotypes of Australian identity one minute, then undercutting them with our country’s history of violence and inequality the next. This work uses humour, colour, energy and After Effects to revitalize our nationalistic anthems.

Room 03
VIVIAN JEAN AND TOM HAL

NICOTINE KYLIE
Nicotine Kylie proudly presentz a pennant portal to spiritual purification.

Exhale.
Confide In Me.

A rosy-cheeked cigarette girl at the entrance of a closed doorcheerfully offers choose-yourconfession cards to an audience who must await their turn to enter the vermillion sequin & velour uterine space of Nicotine Kylie’s exhalation & absolution enclave.

Video and sound layer the space with textiles in an interactive installation that generates an intense experience of intimacy; drawing a long breath throughnicotine inhalation, karaoke, kylie & confession.

Room 04
JEAN POOLE

VJ KARAOKE
Pop cultural video nuggets re-imagined and remixed. Croon, freestyle or no-style those vocal chords across a range of remixed music, and improvised video. Take advantage of not just scrolling lyrics, but a layer of live video triggering, variety of clips specially prepared to tease out the swooniest performances from even the shyest, least likely to swing from the chandeliers performers. Thanks to the wonders of modern video technology, luminaries such as David Hasselhoff, MC Hammer & Dolly Parton will also be available for intimate duets. Freestylers, bathroom RnB stars and all other improvisers welcome. Can you swing your performance to suit the shifting on-screen moods?

Room 05
EVERY DIVA NEEDS A BREATHER

PUBLIC KARAOKE PARTY
Unleash your inner karaoke beast in this room for the wild idol at heart or shut the door and take a rest from the chaotic mayhem.

Room 06
JEMIMA WYMAN

CHROMOPHONOZONE
Chromophonozone was a series of one-night gatherings that occurred at Don’t Tell Mama, a Karaoke club in Fortitude Valley’s Chinatown. Through donning masks constructed out of photographic facial features attached to highly decorative and optical fabric balaclavas, participants become anonymous cosplayers (costume players), who were requested to choose a song and perform within the carnivalesque atmosphere.

The title Chromophonozone aims to also highlight the prominence of the body within this project, as it is a word – play on ‘chromosome’. Chromophonozone is a composite of three words that relate to the major aspects of the project. All of these aspects are registered specifically in relation to the body:

1. Chromo – relating to colour, pigment, saturation and chroming (the illegal practice of inhaling chemical substance for a high, usually associated with metallic spray paint).

2. Phono – relating to sound and speech patterns in the construction of language

3. Zone – the designation of a specific area for a specific purpose usually relating to space but also time, perhaps?

Room 07
DAVID SPOONER

THE MURMURING MERMAN
Spat…a baby oyster out

Let go your shrill siren vocals for the art of karaoke.

Skin and tail an iridescent burst of blue with rainbow tiger stripes. Dark blue hair: trickles trailing into tentacles. A merman out of water, you hop around on the spot. Cement your lament. The audience blows bubbles.

The webbed spur of the platypus paw- a poison filled nib. Sink into the ink of the fountain pen- the drooled scrawl. The southern drawl. The scent of an accent. The sperm whales enemy- the giant squid from his hair - the depths of despair.

Blue terror as the soldier crabs march sideways across the shore.

Spawn yawn

Devour fish with bare hands. His nimble hands glide over the slippery body. Bring it to his mouth and chew it through sharp shark teeth. Spill over his face and dribble down his neck.

A frozen ocean
Icicle trickles of the testicles

The merman is a showman. He misses the sea and feels very home-sea sick. The karaoke room carries him back home. Murmuring merman will sing along to any song (as long as it has some reference to the sea).

The blue that creeps through

Room 08
COLLAPSICON

CORRUPT KARAOKE SMASH HITS
Corrupt karaoke smash hits are karaoke tracks that have endured Collapsicon’s patented Extreme Digital Data Corruption Process (EDDCP). Filtered through a process called “Data Bending”, this technology allows you to experience what a video clip would look like if you left it in the sun for 80 years, broadcast it through satellite transmission, and generally abused the digital data to the point of “just” being able to play it back. All music has been lovingly recreated with the lowest 8bit micro chip music technology.

COLLAPSICON PERFORMS 11:00 – 11:30 PM

PLAY LIST:
Freeze pop – Tennis Boyfriend
Eurythmics – Who’s that girl
Billy idol – White Wedding
Dead Kennedys – Holiday in Cambodia

Room 09
LLOYD BARRETT + JOE MUSGROVE

TEMPORARILY OUT OF ORDER
Temporarily Out of Order is designed to simulate a malfunctioning karaoke environment through fractured / randomised video, glitches and jumpcuts. The image and sound have been edited/manipulated/deconstructed utilising a variety of manual and algorithmic processes from actual karaoke material obtained from discount bins across Brisbane. The work is inspired by random processes and potentially dangerous environments and how the audience interacts with these .

Room 11
THE ULTRAVIOLET EVALUTION PRESENTS AN IMAGINATION :SUPRNATION PRODUCTION

SWEET NOTHING VOL. 1:5 A.K.A SEX, LIES AND CELESTIAL DISGUISE A.K.A TWENTY47NINEELEVEN

FEATURING: SEXI DISLEXI, GLUTEUS “6PAC” MAXIMILLIUS, VAGINA “BABYFACE” WOOLF, CLAIR VOYEUR, URETHRA FRANKLIN, POLLY SYLLABIQ, ANNA GRAM, MARVIN “G-RAPE” FAGGOTT.

From the deep dank void of the Nothingness of Being comes a perverse and degenerate pantomime of panties, puppetry and voodoo ventriloquism. Channelling insurgent visions from the RNB MTV universe, the Alphachemical Spectrum, the nether regions of An-atom-y, and those things that inspire feeling: bitches, gunz and Godd, Sweet Nothing Vol 1:5 ushers in a new era of apocalyptic sex, success and excess. In a demented cabaret format, the Angelic and Arseholic battle it out, Love attains confusing nihilistic proportions, and the debris is reconstituted into the New World Aura.