Keg de Souza and Zanny Begg have been working together since 2006. Together they curated If You See Something Say Something a multi-venue exhibition, publishing and workshop project at Mori Gallery, Gallery 4a, Chrissie Cotter Gallery and a temporary squatted venue and edited the If You See Something Say Something, newspaper project. Keg and Zanny were shortlisted for the Helen Lempriere Travelling Arts Scholarship at Artspace in 2007.
In 2008 they formed a new collective You Are Here to draw together a range of their projects and involve others who were working with them. You Are Here is an art collective which works across art making, curating, writing and discussions (www.youarehere.me). They have been joined by open source software developer Andy Nicholson. Together they have a ten year artistic mapping project of Redfern, Sydney, the 2016: Archive Project.
In June/July 2008 they conducted a residency in Yogyakarta with Asialink and IVAA, The Indonesian Visual Art Archive and made a film Cities Without Maps – Kota Tanpa Peta.
You Are Here conducted a Performance Space residency at the Redfern Community Centre in November 2007 and produced a work Pemulwuy Dream Team based on animation workshops they took with young people there. In May 2009 they curated an exhibition at the Performance Space called There Goes The Neighbourhood which bought together international and local projects concerned with the politics of space (www.theregoestheneighbourhood.org). There Goes The Neighbourhood was nominated for the Fbi Sydney Music, Arts and Culture awards, 2009.
They were invited to Socially Disorganised a curatorial workshop with Vasif Kortun in Adelaide in February 2009 and to speak at One Way or Another an Artspace symposium, November 2009.
In 2010 You Are Here will travel to Chicago as part of an Australia Council Residency and will have a solo show at Artspace, Sydney.
Prizes, grants, residencies:
2010: Australia Council Residency, Chicago- New York
2009: Inter-Arts Project Grant, Australia Council For The Arts
2008: Performance Space Residency, Sydney
Asialink Residency, Indonesia
City of Sydney Community Grants Scheme, Sydney
Social Activism and the Arts, JB Seed Fund, Western Australia
2007: Shortlisted for the Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship
Marketing Grant, National Association of the Visual Arts, Australia
2006: Skills and Arts Development Grant, Australia Council for the Arts
Recent and upcoming exhibitions (group):
2010: (upcoming) You Are Here Solo Show, Artspace, Sydney
2009: There Goes The Neighbourhood, Performance Space, Sydney
2008: Cities Without Maps - Kota Tanpa Peta (with Keg de Souza) - Film Screening in a Vacant Lot Ratmakan Kampung, Kali Code, and at Mes 56, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
2007: Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship (with Keg de Souza), Artspace, Sydney.
If You See Something, Say Something – exhibition, publishing and workshop project, Mori Gallery, Gallery 4a, and Chrissie Cotter Gallery.
Curatorial projects:
2009: There Goes The Neighbourhood, Performance Space, Sydney
Editors of There Goes The Neighbourhood – Redfern and the Politics of Urban Space
2007: If You See Something Say Something a multi-venue exhibition, publishing and workshop project at Mori Gallery, Gallery 4a, Chrissie Cotter Gallery and a temporary squatted venue.
Editors of If You See Something Say Something, newspaper project.
Workshops/Talks:
2009: One Way or Another, Guest Speaker, Artspace, Sydney
Socially Disorganised a curatorial workshop with Vasif Kortun, Adeliade Experimental Arts Foundation
Gerald Raunig Philosophy Workshop (Organised and facilitated by You Are Here), Serial Space, Sydney
2008: Cities Without Maps - Tanpa Kota Peta artist talk IVAA and Mes56, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Media:
Keehan, R. There Goes The Neighbourhood, Eyeline, Issue 70, 2010
Pemulwuy Dream Team Featured Artists on Australia Council for the Arts Website (http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/the_arts/interdisciplinary_arts/pemulwuy_dream_team__you_are_here)
Mulheron, A. Feature on Pemulwuy Dream Team on Living Black, SBS TV, September 14 2009 (http://player.sbs.com.au/naca/#/naca/living_black/Latest/playlist/Game-On/)
Dalal, N. Interview 2ser Radio, June 2009
Levinson, M. Interview Fbi Radio, May 2009
Millner, J. There Goes The Neighbourhood, Realtime Issue 92, August/ September 2009
Groom, A. There Goes The Neighbourhood exhibition review, Runway Magazine, Futures Issue, June 2009
Groom, A. There Goes The Neighbourhood, Two Thousand, 11 May 2009
Murray, E. Kids on The Block take on criminals, Sydney Morning Herald, 25 May 2009
Murray, E. Redfern’s bird sculpture hatches angry response, Sydney Morning Herald, 28 May 2009
Carr, K. An Exhibition about Redfern, Inner West Courier, 19 May 2009
Groom, A. There Goes The Neighbourhood, Sydney City News, 7 May 2009, Cover story
Wells, J. There Goes The Neighbourhood, Drum Media, 5 May 2009
Frost. A. Cities Without Maps, featured on The Art Life ABC TV, 2008 |
