Diary of a Dead Beat Modern Art Type
Foreword: Prof. Anne Marsh
Introduction: Damian Smith
Gulag Publishing - 2000
Along with the work of Peter Kennedy, Mike Parr and Kevin Mortenson, Gary’s early work was seminal. He had grasped the key concepts of the avant-garde from a very early on the cross over between art and the everyday’.
Dr. Anne Marsh – Monash University
Chronology - The 70s (1972 - 1982)
'…AND THE LEOPARD LOOKED LIKE ME!" 1980 - 1982
Performance & Videotape: with Richard Boulez; Soundtrack - Paul Grabowski
Performances;
1980 - ‘I & I’ Studio, Brunswick Street, Melbourne
Adelaide Festival for the Arts - Fringe
ACT 2 Performance Festival Canberra
Video Presented;
1982 - NU VIEW - AFI Theatre, Melbourne
1982 - Sydney Bienale, Art Gallery of N.S.W.
1983 - Experimental Video/Film Festival, Munich - Germany
2011 - Expeimental Art Foundation - Adelaide; Queensland University of Technology - Brisbane: Centre for Contemporary Photography - Melbourne
STRATEGIES FOR GOODBYE: 1980- 1982
Manifesto and Video: with Eva Schramm
Manifesto Broadcast - 3 CR Melbourne
1982 Sydney Biennale
Australie: La Reve et Le Real - Musee D’Art Moderne, Paris
Continuum - Scan Video Gallery, Tokyo
An Eccentric Orbit - Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Canada - L.A. County Museum etc.
Australian Video Art – Art Gallery of New South Wales
Australian Art of the Last Ten Years, Australian National Gallery
TE VE VU DU - 1981
Collaborative video work: with Eva Schramm & Christine Meering.
7 tapes in all; Siobhan Ryan, David Argue, Jeff Busby, Tony Oliver, Christine Meering (Ma Prem Surabi- Dr. Shrubs), Eva Schramm & Gary Willis.
Presented @ MASS Galley - Fitzroy 2000
TE VE VU DU - 1980
Video work with Eva Schramm
Clifton Hill New Music Centre, Melbourne
Adelaide Festival for the Arts - Fringe
Australian Art of the Last Ten Years, Australian National GalleryTE VE TABOO, Video Festival, ‘82 Sydney Biennale
NU VIEW - AFI Theatre MelbourneVIDEOLA – Curated by Brendan Lee - Physics Room New Zealand.
HOLY WORD - 1980
Collaborative video tape with Eva Schramm and Robert Randal & Frank Bendenelli
Soundtrack: Warren Burt
Sydney Biennale 1982
Experimental Film & Video Festival - Munich
Continuum - Scan Video Gallery, Tokyo
'Australie - La Reve et Le Real' - Musee D’ Art Moderne, Paris
The Flying Trapeze Café 1980
Murals - New Wave Cabaret - Brunswick Street Fitzroy, Melbourne
Murals -featured some 35 portraits of local and mythic cabaret stars - painted by Gary Willis, with selected artists including; Brian Seidel, Ania Walwitz, Richard Boulez, Paula Dawson, Melwitz Folino, Ralph Eberlein & Andy Warhol.
Brunswick Street Fitzroy, Melbourne
IS THIS WHAT YOU CALL LOVE? - 1979
Television Event: Collaborative video with Eva Schramm
Soundtrack: Ken Guntar
TV TABOO - Sydney Biennale 1982
CTC –7: Television Canberra - ACT 2 Performance Festival Canberra
ATN – 9: Television Adelaide - Adelaide Festival for the Arts
VIDEO CATALOGUE Issue #3 – Curated by Brendan Lee
The Shooter's Gallery 1973 - 1979
Multimedia installation;
Sydney Biennale
Victorian Ministry for the Arts Gallery
Queensland Festival of the Arts
Benalla Regional Art Gallery
Shepparton Regional Art Gallery
ROCK - 1973 - 1979
Multimedia Installation:
Woolloomooloo – Sydney Biennale
Video Plus Group – Open Channel, Fitzroy.
PERFORMANCE - WORK - 1979
Collaborative performance with Simon Hopkinson
P.I.T. Performance Festival, Melbourne
New York - Art Beat - Chelsea Hotel - Mudd Club - CB GB's etc. 1978 - 1979
REMEMBER-FORGET - 1978
Poster Installation
Melbourne City CBD
ART WORKS - 1978
Conceptual works
Warehouse Galleries - South Melbourne
ART-PERFORMANCE-LECTURE - 1978
Collaborative performance with Simon Hopkinson
La Trobe University
R.M.I.T. University, Melbourne
TWO ARTISTS – PAINTING – POWELL STREET - 1977
Collaborative installation and performance with Simon Hopkinson
Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne
WRITING- DRAWING – PICKING UP LEAVES - 1977
Cllaborative performance with Simon Hopkinson + Chancey Gardiner
Brighton Cultural Centre, Melbourne
ART-WORK - 1977
Collaborative installation & performance with Simon Hopkinson (Permanent)
Mildura Sculpture Triennial - Mildura
THINKING OF DOING A LITTLE PAINTING - 1977
Performance with Simon Hopkinson
Various locations around Melbourne including: National Gallery of Victoria, Realities Galleries, Powell Street Galleries, Warehouse Gallery, Botanical Gardens etc.
DINNER for 4 at 8 AM - 1977
Performance - Directed by Simon Hopkinson - with Alison Richards and 3 others
R.M.I.T. University - Melbourne
BOREDOM - 1976
Installation & Performance
P.I.T. Performance Festival Vic.
1975 - 1976 Travelling Buddhist student – Chenrezig Monastery Qld., Rhyutakuki monastery Japan & Wat Mahartart, Bankok, Thailand
CREATION-DESTRUCTION - 1974
Interactive conceptual scuplture: with Tyra Hutchins
Riverina C.A.E, Wagga Wagga - N.S.W.
ZZZZZ - 1973
Installation: Performance with 5 logs, forestry truck & 5 forestry workers- 1 Government van & two govt. workers
Canberra City Square – A.C.T.
BIRDS – SONGS - 1973
Conceptual performance; concieved by Gary Willis
Performance; N.U.D.E. (National University Dance Ensemble) directed by Lindy Tennenbaum
Soundtrack: Jim Cotter
Australian National University - Canberra
ABOUT – FACE - 1973
Conceptual Event: for A.B.C. – Television, Canberra
with Simon Cluff, Janet Scott, Jessica & Miranda Douglas.
ALL SENSES BALL - 1973
Collaborative, multi-disciplinary conceptual event conceived with Janet Scott & the SALT Group
Involving 60 artists incl: Tim Burns, Harry Le Grand, John Wilson, Linda woolfit, John Tucker, Sylvia & The Synthetics (Lana Lunette & Snow White pictured above), John Fisher, Steve Dunstan, Tim Spellman, Michael Desmond, Kevin Abbey, Heather Ellyard, Dave Kearney, Mick Glasheen, Martin Sharp, Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band, Hilary Wrigley, John Stevens, Ross McGregor, Mitch Johnson, Barabara Mau, Booby Gledhill, Michael Burns, Phillip Mead, Dick Hopkinson, Simon Cluff, Graham Jackson, and others
Albert Hall, Canberra - A.C.T.
A FACT IS A FACT IS A FACT - 1972
Performance:
Demonstration - Parliament House, Canberra – A.C.T.
FIRE – WATER - 1972
Installation: UNESCO
Culture/Counter Culture Conference
Australian National University - A.C.T
'Gary Willis was an anarchic performer in the days when it mattered … I remember some of Willis' freewheeling anarchic performance pieces. What was exciting about them was they were often unrehearsed, unannounced, and occassionally dangerous ... those were the days when the fringe really was the fringe ... '
Peter Timms - 'Sign of the Times' - The Age (Nov 2000)
National Library of Australia record below;
| Title | Diary of a Dead Beat Modern Art Type: Gary Willis, 1972-1982 |
| Authors | Gary Willis, Anne Marsh, Damian Smith |
| Edition | 40 full colour images |
| Publisher | Gulag Publishing, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0646403702, 9780646403700 |
| Length | 108 pages - colour & B/W |
| Subject |
Art
General
Art / GeneralArt and society Artists Arts, Modern Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs |
| Originally published in support of the exhibition entitled 'The Situationalist Activities of Gary Willis - 1972-1982' | |
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MASS Gallery - Melbourne, Fitzroy 2000 Contact; Gary Willis for a copy ($35:00 Aust.) |
‘Arguably the most detailed and significant record of Australian in the 70’s that has been written.’
Terry Whelan – Archivist of Australian Art
‘Gary’s work challenged the boundaries of art with a volatility which transgressed notions of identity, pushing both himself and his art to the breaking point. This book questions the sustainability of such practices’.