MAAP Republic hosts a one night event, Gross Bodies of Light presented by Brisbane Artist Run Initiative, SPEC. Please join us at our Collins Place home for an evening of light, sound and moving image.

When: 6pm, Friday 30th of July

Where: 271 Grey St, South Brisbane (view map)

Brisbane audiences are invited to see Pak Sheung Chuen give a free public talk on 29 June at 11am at the State Library of Queensland Auditorium 2. Pak, the artist who represented Hong Kong at last year’s Venice Biennale, is in Brisbane this month to contemplate his next artwork. Pak’s work comprises a series of small, yet insightful, gestures in response to his immediate environment and to broader social and political issues, prompting the labels ‘philosophical’, ‘poetic’, ‘witty’, ‘profound’, and ‘sensitive’ from international commentators.

While in Brisbane for his residency, made possible by MAAP – Multimedia Art Asia Pacific (MAAP) and the State Library of Queensland, Pak will be developing artwork that engages with his travels and the State Library site for Light from Light. Read more about Pak’s residency.

The MAAP Republic showing of Paul Brown’s Studies in Perception has now closed.

MAAP is taking ongoing submissions for temporary public art projects for the MAAP Republic program. To make an enquiry, please contact us, or find out more.

This year MAAP declares its program of public and site-specific art, MAAP Republic.

To make it official, we have installed Paul Brown's Kinetic Painting 4^15: Studies in Perception on a 9m x 1.5m purpose-built projection space at South Bank (ABI Group Building, Stanley Street Plaza in the Parklands).

In this installation, Brown uses an artist-created software program, based on Cellular Automata (Artificial Life), to generate randomised and evolving geometric forms. The works reference European kinetic, conceptual and systems art, as well as an aesthetic he finds in tiling and patterns of symmetry.

The work can viewed between 5pm-2am daily over the summer period.

MAAP is seeking artist's proposals for further MAAP Republic projects.

MAAP wishes everyone a happy holiday and brand new year! We're certainly looking forward to a mammoth 2010!

The office will be closed from December 24th to January 11th, then business as usual from the 12th.

We'll be sure to keep you all updated with news from our forthcoming 2010 exhibition 'Light from Light' in the new year. Until then...

MAAP has officially moved!

Our offices and Media Bank are now located at:

Collins Place (at South Bank rail station, opposite Queensland College of Art) 271 Grey St, South Bank

Our new office number is: +61 7 3161 7960

MAAP is in the interim of moving from our former office at the Judith Wright Centre. If making contact with the MAAP office is difficult at this time, please be patient. For urgent inquiries, please phone 0411 591 058. All other requests can be made to info[at]maap.org.au

The MAAP Media Bank will support Brisbane artist Ross Manning with equipment for his solo exhibition at Milani Gallery 20th August - 5th September.

Earlier this year, Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley were engaged in the MAAP artist-in-residence program.

Janet Burchill, presents a her new exhibition Equivalence at Anna Schwartz Gallery, between 30th July and 29th August.

Burchill continues her investigation of colour and sign systems in works such as UTOPIA and Thwarted Monochrome for J.G. Ballard. Also presented is Domeville, a collaborative work with Jennifer McCamley, which explores the Geodesic Dome as an emblem of failed utopian visions (see R. Buckminster Fuller). This motif will be further examined in their work for MAAP's 2010 exhibition Light From Light, 2010.

Image: Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley, Domeville 2009. Media: steel, steel mesh, corkboard and pins. Image courtesy: the artists and Anna Schwartz Gallery.

光源自光 Light from Light - is an exhibition based on solar technologies, considering light as a metaphor for knowledge.

MAAP is currently developing the exhibition that will engage artists to present works specifically made for the context of the State Library of Queensland and in Shanghai in 2010.

The libraries will display 'Light from Light' to coincide with the Shanghai World Expo 2010.

Melbourne based artists Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley are undertaking a MAAP residency to produce a central work for the exhibition. They are researching new solar technologies to create a renewable energy geodesic dome.