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Melbourne Exhibition</b>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Title: Hipster or
Bohemian? Melbourne’s counter-cultural history showcased at SLV</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)">State Library Victoria will showcase Melbourne’s vibrant
bohemian history with an exhibition, performances, public lectures and walking
tours this summer. A unique chance to learn about Melbourne’s counter-culture
characters, and their contribution to the city’s arts, music and literary
scene.</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Melbourne’s rich
history of counter-cultures will be captured in a new exhibition, with the help
of Monash cultural historian and media scholar Dr Tony Moore, who was academic
advisor. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri">State Library
Victoria’s (SLV) Keith Murdoch Gallery will host a new exhibition, Bohemian
Melbourne, from 12</span><sup><span style="font-size:17pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri"></span></sup><span style="font-family:Calibri"> December to
February 22</span><sup><span style="font-size:17pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri"></span></sup><span style="font-family:Calibri">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Inspired by Dr
Moore’s 2012 book <i>Dancing with Empty
Pockets: Australia’s Bohemians Since 1860</i>, the exhibition will showcase
Melbourne’s many subversive artists, poets, performers and musicians, including
Marcus Clarke, the Lindsays, the Angry penguins group, Barry Humphries, Vali
Myers and Nick Cave. The exhibition will include paintings, photographs,
costumes as well as rarely seen film and videos sources from the National Film
and Sound Archive, the ABC and other independent filmmakers. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri">The exhibition
and public events involve significant research and cultural collaboration
between Monash and State Library Victoria, drawing on Dr Moore’s work which
highlighted and analysed the cultural contribution of the myriad characters
that feature in his book and what their subversive presences means for
Melbourne more generally.</span></p>
<p style="margin-left:1cm"><i><span style="font-family:Arial;font-style:normal">“Melbourne has a bohemian counter-tradition, reinvented and
re-imagined by successive generations and movements spanning the mid-19th
century to the present day but linked by strong continuities. For more than a
century and a half Melbourne has spawned networks of creative iconoclasts –
poets, painters, novelists, performers, satirists, filmmakers, rock ’n’ roll
stars – as famous for their subversive, controversial lifestyles as for the
work they produced.” – Tony Moore</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Tony is Lead
CI on the bohemia-related ARC Discovery <span> </span>Fringe to Famous, based in the School of
Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Senior curator
Clare Williamson said the exhibition showcases Melbourne’s history as a home
for bohemians and counter-cultural movements that bridges generational divides.
<span style="color:windowtext">“Every generation feels nostalgic about its own
unique bohemian legacy, but this exhibition shows how the spirit of bohemianism
has endured through 150 years of Melbourne’s history,” she said.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Williamson and
Moore worked together to find themes that tie different generations of
bohemians together, including <span> </span>representations of the city in media and art;
the global circulation of bohemian and avant-garde identities; the recurrence
of the gothic and the carivalesque,; he youthful exodus of Australians to Europe
to discover artistic scenes,; and <span> </span>forming
iconoclastic collectives to create similar cultural pockets in Melbourne, from
Clarke’s Yorick Club and the Angry Penguins group to the Carlton scene and
punks.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri">The exhibition
will also include a variety of public events including panel talks, a cabaret
performance, a film festival called ‘Screening Bohemia’ and a series of
Bohemian Melbourne walking tours ( conducted Monash’s Moore, Assoc Prof. John
Arnold, and Richard<span> </span>Overell ) all open
to the public.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri">The exhibition
leaves room to consider the role today’s bohemians, from street artists and
burlesque performers to ‘hipsters’ promenading in colonial-style beards, can
play in Melbourne’s cultural scene. The inclusion of photographer Luke David
Kellett’s work from his 2011 series, <i>This
City Speaks to Me: a portrait of Melbourne’s underground</i>, certainly begins
this conversation. Regardless, this exhibition will be a great time to reflect
on Melbourne’s rich counter-cultural history, and its future as a cultural hub
that attracts artists, creatives and visionaries.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Read the Time Out
Melbourne and Qantas Magazine write up on this exhibition: <a href="http://www.au.timeout.com/melbourne/museums/events/13391/bohemian-melbourne" target="_blank">http://www.au.timeout.com/melbourne/museums/events/13391/bohemian-melbourne</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10pt"><span><a href="http://www.mediaportal.com/0vv622693087" target="_blank">http://www.mediaportal.com/0vv622693087</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Visit the State
Library Victoria website for more information on the exhibition or related
events: <a href="http://new.slv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/bohemian-melbourne" target="_blank">http://new.slv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/bohemian-melbourne</a> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri">And Walking
Tours:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="http://new.slv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/bohemian-melbourne-walking-tour" target="_blank">http://new.slv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/bohemian-melbourne-walking-tour</a></p>
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Images: Marcus Clarke at 20 c 1866, State Library Victoria<br></div><div>Norman Ikin, Vali Myers, C. 1949, State Library Victoria</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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