MELODY WOODNUTT celebrates THE 1980s
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↝ Melody Woodnutt‘s short, black and white film celebrates the grungy, punky, photocopied vibes of 1980s GDS, with the somewhat eery black & white photography which graced its covers during this decade.
Melody Woodnutt is an artist working within contemporary expanded cinema using 16mm film, installation, and sound. Her analogue filmmaking conjures vignettes of eerie otherworlds while her site-specific field work takes her into remote areas worldwide to work with communities as the Artistic Director of a biennial film project and residency program called The Weight of Mountains. She is an exhibiting member of the local 16mm film collective, Artist Film Workshop in Melbourne/Naarm, whose film lab later inhabited the same building in Fitzroy where Going Down Swinging began. Find her on instagram @laglina or visit her website, https://blackjackwoodnutt.com/.
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JASON CAVANAGH celebrates THE 1990s
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↬ Jason Cavanagh‘s vivid and surreal oil painting shows the fabulist, often dark, gritty energy of 1990s GDS, whose pages and covers were filled with traditional fine arts like painting and etching.
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KATE GECK celebrates THE 2000s
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⇻ Kate Geck‘s popping gif encapsulates the naughties perfectly – with its Windows sky blue screensaver, brick phones and CDs – and shows 2000s GDS‘ playful move into the millennium.
Kate Geck is an artist living and working on unceded Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung land. Kate is interested in network culture, working with code, installation and textiles to create interactive surfaces. These are tactile compositions exploring thresholds between the physical and the digital, often extended with augmented reality or QR codes. Kate’s practice tends to the connections between humans and technology, exploring ways to materialise the seemingly immaterial nature of the digital. Her textiles combine machine embroidery, machine knitting, hand and digitally printed fabrics. These surfaces are overloaded, saturated and glitchy, using network iconography and digital composition tropes. These critique a hyper mediated age, creating sites of respite and resistance that think through alternative agendas for networked technologies.
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MAEVE BAKER celebrates THE 2010s
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⇴ Maeve Baker‘s digital illustration celebrates 2010s GDS, which headed towards bold colours and lines and made bold tracks in exploring book design-as-art.
Maeve Baker is a Brisbane based animator, illustrator and comic artist. Maeve has a penchant for subtle story telling, abstract visuals and bright colours. You can find Maeve’s work published in Voiceworks and QPAC Storytime Magazine, in comic book shops around Meanjin (Brisbane) and Naarm (Melbourne), and on their website: http://www.maevebkr.com/.
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POSTERS
![Street poster celebrating the 1980s. Going Down Swinging written in large, black, all-caps text. Featured is a black and white image of a building, with transparent images of an angel reaching out its arm repeating down the left side and a person with long hair in the ocean on the left side.](https://goingdownswinging.org.au/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/GDS-POSTER-1980s-small-image-file.jpg)
![Bright, burnt orange poster celebrating the 1990s. Going Down Swinging written in large, black, all-caps text. Featured is a colourful oil painting: a thick green beanstalk branches up from top to bottom, with red grass and a cityscape behind it on the bottom left and a stick figure reclining sadly on a white, painted out section which says 'THIS IS COOL' on the bottom right. Hanging on the beanstalk is a flying blue figure, a yellow and orange daisy with a surprised expression and two little yellow gnomes in stripey red and white hats, and a melting white candle. The background is mostly blue skies, but the top right opens a portal onto a moody blue and pink sunset and black silhouetted mountain.](https://goingdownswinging.org.au/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/GDS-POSTER-1990s-small-image-file.jpg)
![Bright, sky blue poster celebrating the 1990s. Going Down Swinging written in large, black, all-caps text. Centred is a digital artwork fading from white (bottom) to the same blue (top) as the old Windows screensaver. The bottom of the artwork has the old grey Windows Start bar. In the centre of the artwork is a circle, ringed by an illustrated grey chain. In the background of the circle are glitched images of the Windows green field and blue cloudy sky screensaver/desktop background. On top of it are images of silver CDs, stacked tabs of Myspace profiles, some grey bubbles, and, visually dominating, two illustrated hands with checkered grey and white skin holding an old Nokia mobile phone and playing Snake.](https://goingdownswinging.org.au/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2000s-screenshot-right-size.png)
![Light, grassy green poster celebrating the 1990s. Going Down Swinging written in large, black, all-caps text. A huge artwork is featured depicting three long-haired people in blue dresses sleeping on chairs. Their chairs sit on a red and white checkered floor which curves Escher-like into the distance. Framing the scene are huge red/pink archways which open up fully onto a purpley-blue dusky sky with huge, naif white and yellow stars. Centred is a bright yellow sun partially obscured by the meeting of the two archways.](https://goingdownswinging.org.au/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2010s-screenshot-right-size.png)
The four artworks were then designed into some stunning posters by the multi-talented Michael Sun, which are hitting the streets one-by-one from late October through November to announce our archives to the world, around the streets of City of Melbourne, whose grant made this project possible. You can view the artworks and read more about the art and posters here.
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