Bus Projects is not currently accepting proposals. Our previous round closed on Sunday 14 March.
During our open call rounds, Bus Projects welcomes applications from a broad constituency of cultural producers including artists, collectives, collaborators, writers and curators at all career levels.
We favour applications involving the creation of new works that are experimental, critical, and/or interdisciplinary in nature. People of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are encouraged to apply.
If you require further information or wish to discuss an application before you apply (including any issues regarding support material or electronic submission) please contact Bus Projects Curator of Public Programs, Nina Mulhall nina@busprojects.org.au, or Curator of Exhibitions, Kathryne Genevieve Honey kathryne@busprojects.org.au.
Engages,
Jemi Gale‘True Colours’ catalogue launch
Please join us at Bus Projects this Saturday 10th April, 3.30-5.30pm, for the ‘True Colours’ catalogue launch. There will be performances by En.V, Fimo, and a secret guest.
Alongside a community feast, ‘For The Love of Leftovers’, the epilogue to F.O.C.U.S. In the interest of keeping a waste-free practice, Alisa Tanaka-King will be cooking up the leftover ingredients from F.O.C.U.S and will be hosting an open event for the local community, promoting sustainability and communal eating. All are welcome!
Curated by Emmett Aldred and Keva York, Presented in partnership with CompositeDocumentary Meets
‘Documentary Meets’ is a year-long collection of non-fiction film screening events curated by Emmett Aldred and Keva York, presented in partnership with Composite on the third Thursday of each month.
Presented at Sylvia Staehli Theatre, Dancehouse, That Which Was Once Familiar (TWWOF) investigates how culture inscribes gender and sexuality onto the flesh sacks we walk around in… our bodies.
“…the rhythm of walking took the song into the body. Through the body, song became dance, which in turn became ceremony.” Songlines, Margo Neale and Lynne Kelly.
Arini Byng, Sean Dockray, Tamsen Hopkinson, Nicholas Mangan, Steven Rhall, Jacqui Shelton, Public OfficeMeans, of Production
Means, of Productions is an experiment in building open-source software in an open dialog with a group of artists, in order to try and expand the idea of how artworks can live and evolve in the peer-to-peer space. It is a collaborative project between Bus Projects, Public Office and six Melbourne-based artists. Funded as a result of Covid-19, initially the ideas sprung from an obvious lack of tools for making art works solely for an ephemeral, digital space. That’s what we hope to shift through this process. Stay tuned!
‘Three Retracings’ is a sound publication that explores a process of returning, retracing and re-listening in urban space. Recorded periodically across three and a half years in Narrm Melbourne, Kaifeng and Suzhou; nine compositions form a set of sonic relations between neighbourhoods undergoing urban transformation in Australia and China. Placing three accumulative listenings in conversation across these contexts, the publication interrogates the contentious role of the field recordist as an itinerant documenter, archive-maker, visitor and tourist.
OUT OF BOUNDS is a series of performances and conversations with Australian artists that navigates the intricacies of their art practice, the way they have adapted to the world in isolation and their reflections on the emerging art world right now.
Darcey Bella Arnold’s practice considers the artists’ close and unique relationship with her mother, Jennifer. Jennifer has an acquired brain injury, which has altered her use of language.
Join us for a virtual lecture by Siona Wilson to mark the screening of Women of the Rhondda as part of the Bodies of Work film series curated by Benison Kilby.
Concentric Curriculum is an artist-led parallel-school program embracing non-institutional, self-organised approaches to education and made in collaboration with local communities. This program enables artists and arts professionals to become creative collaborators and co-producers with diverse communities, resulting in long-term collaborations and sustained knowledge sharing.
‘Field Notes from Care Workers’ is a series of encounters between human and more-than-human beings who consider care as a part of their work. Broadcasted live weekly on Bus Radio.
Born from interviews with close friends about vulnerability, ‘Ourselves’ explores the risk perceived in baring oneself and the value of support in constructing autonomous and unfiltered spaces. Presented on Bus TB on Wednesday 2 September, 7pm
Melanie Jame Wolf, Bus TVThree Possibilities Walk Into A Bar (TONIGHT reprise)
Three Possibilities Walk Into A Bar (TONIGHT reprise) is a music video for a performance text. This text first appeared in a 2019 choreographic work called TONIGHT.
Geoff Robinson, Ying-Lan DannLower Moonee Ponds Creek Tributary Project
Lower Moonee Ponds Creek Tributary Project is an audio work that investigates the redirected, hidden and remnant creek tributaries of inner northwest Melbourne.
Mira Loew, and Jane Frances Dunlop, Bus TVfull moon to new moon (hands, fastness, surprise) & other exchanges
For Bus TV, Loew and Dunlop share a new work that is the consequence of a set of exchanges occurring over spring 2020. A series of videos form an intimate conversation about distance, isolation, depression and the consequences of stopping by choice and by necessity.
Chantelle Mitchell and Jaxon Waterhouse, Concentric CurriculumAbyss Lessons: Vortextual Thinking amidst the Ecological Turn EOI
Abyss Lessons is a five part curriculum, exploring, through geologic and hydrologic states, our human and other-than-human entanglements through depth as a measure of being.
‘Casual Stain’ is a radio play based on Aaron Billings’ own experience working at a multi-national retail & homewares store as the Pandemic hit. Released Fortnightly on Thursday evening at 7pm. The next episode will air on Thursday 23 July.
Living Room is a series of short films by visual artist Nina Sanadze. Each film presents a portrait of a Melbourne artist captured in their home studio and sometimes at their job too.
Jacina Leong, Concentric CurriculumThinking with, and acting from, this place: caring in and through the ethics, methods and purposes of our practices Open Call
Bus Projects and Jacina Leong invite you to submit an expression of interest for this free, four-part workshop will take place via Zoom, facilitated by artist-curator, Jacina Leong.
Eleanor Duffin (born Wexford, Ireland, currently lives and works in Bristol, UK) is a visual artist whose works are predominantly sculptural in nature. She employs a process of speculative questioning that draws influence from varied disparate ideas and anecdotes within anthropology, literature, physics and art history. She is interested in things that have a sense of self conscious autonomy and the potential to be generative agents.
Gertrude Talks is weekly discussion series produced in partnership with Gertrude Contemporary. Each week a new theme will be unpacked by host Georgia Banks with past and present Gertrude studio artists.
Caring for the Ecology is a show on Bus Radio that amplifies important conversation about the collaborative, collectivist and organisational structures that impact the way we work as arts workers and cultural producers.
A music show presenting a mix of politically inclined tracks across all genres to help you through the day. Enjoy mixes by the Bus team as well as guest programmers during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Departed Acts is a performance-lecture series that invites Victorian artists, writers and curators to recall the experience of a pivotal exhibition or artwork that has influenced their practice.
Hosted by Bus Projects and Liquid ArchitectureCollective-Kolektif: an Indonesia-Australia dialogue on artist collectives
‘Collective-Kolektif’ hosts Indonesian collectives including KUNCI Cultural Studies Center, Ace House, OMNI space, Ruang MES 56, and ruangrupa; alongside Melbourne-based groups Her Africa Is Real, Hyphenated Projects, eleven-collective, and Sound School, with more to be announced.
Archie Barry will present a thread of curated readings from their diary entries written between 1999 and 2019, laced together with excerpts of affect theory, linguistics and existential philosophy. Polyvocal and correlative, the presentation searches for ramified language that could function (or dysfunction) to touch the perpetual flux of personhood.
MUSIK BOX is an ongoing series of experimental music concerts featuring emerging and established artists and musicians. The upcoming concert features electronic music.
Please join us on Saturday 30 November from 2 - 4pm for ‘The Design Plot’. This will be the final event at Bus Projects’ current Rokeby st site. ‘The Design Plot’ is helping us say goodbye to our site that we have occupied since 2013 before we move into our new site at CAP in 2020.
Tara Cook, Edwin Jurriens, Jessica O’Brien, Nella Themelios, Agung Nugroho Widhi, Tristan Jalleh, Eugenia Lim and Rowan McNaught. Chaired by Channon GoodwinPut Up a Signal Forum
Sarah Byrne, Eric Demetriou, Jaya Fausch, Andy Hutson, Cheralyn Lim, Taree Mackenzie, Lyndal May Stewart, Jaime Powell, Made Spencer-Castle, Fiona Williams, SHOP SHOPHOUSEWARMING
Snawklor, Gugg, Super Star, Fatti Frances, Helen Johnson, Andy McClelland and Jason Heller with Lulu Quintella, Sian and the Velantas, Norkiro Nakamura, Nat McQuadeBus Projects Closing Party
