Firstly, darch has been invited by the Museum of Contemporary Art to participate in the conversation space at the Craigie Horsefield exhibition that is currently showing.

Craigie Horsefield is an artist who focuses on exploring time and community through photography, with his photographs often developed and printed many years after they are taken. The MCA website tells us that:

“He has been a radical proponent of ideas concerning art and community since the 1960s, exploring the central role of the audience in relation to a work of art, and how the individual relates to society. Duration and time often influence his work, challenging our inclination towards instantaneous responses, and investigating the theory of “slow time”. His work has anticipated much current thinking in art practice concerning the way in which art relates to the wider community.

Shortlisted for the Turner Prize 1996, Horsfield has said: “The work I make is intimate in scale but its ambition is, uncomfortable as I find it, towards an epic dimension, to describe the history of our century, and the centuries beyond, the seething extent of the human condition.”

One room of the exhibition has been given over the a ‘Conversation Space’ - a place for talks, meetings, and various other happenings. DARCH is using the Conversation Space on Sunday’s each fortnight beginning this weekend, to hold a series of discussions on the city. Each week we will look at particular theme and will record a podcast and put on an interactive-exhibitioney-data-gathering-thing.

This weekend’s theme will draw on the concern’s of Horsefield and concentrate on the idea of ’slowness in the instaneous city’. We will start at 1pm so, if you are in town, drop by and have a look….

Secondly, Col Madigan is speaking at Tusculum next Monday night. Now 85, Madigan is one of Australia’s preeminent architects and responsible for the National Art Gallery. You should go to this. It will be good for the soul.

This is a frame from the trailer to Oceans 13 and I am fairly certain that the building shown does not exist.

Towards the end of the trailer the Brad Pitt character tells the All Pacino character

“Let em tell you what you don’t want. Your hotel in a twisted heap of steel and glass. That’s what you don’t want.”

which is certainly a difficult proposition to argue with.

Pecha Kucha Volume 03 took place last Thursday in the bowels of the Commercial Travellers Association. It was a great night, fantastic stuff on show and loads of people to check it all out.

As always, the grabs that follow are a poor representation of the content that was on show, so if you are intrigued then make sure you come along to the next on at the end of May for the full deal.

First up was Kate Bezar, editor of the wonderful Dumbo Feather magazine.

Brendan Cowell and Alice Babidge from Wharf 2 Loud spoke about their new paly which is currently in rehearsals, named Self Esteem, where the mysterious multinational CHAD is invading the lives of suburban Australia.

Hugh Snellgrove and Gabrielle Ulacco of the Sydney University Architecture School spoke about a project they have recently completed - and built a prototype of - for a low cost stand alone unit for bathing and cooking for use in Aboriginal commuties. The project was run by Col James and Paul Pholeros.

Kate Porter, ran the crowd through the commonly misunderstood world of carbon trading markets. From the Kyoto Protocol to the micro markets that are set up when corporations offset their emmsisions by giving away light bulbs.

Lisa Cahill is an artist who works in glass and creates beautiful, serene landscapes.

Matt and Mark of animation and design studio Sixty 40 showed their animation work for the MTV and the Comedey Channel as well as their band and their hosting duties for a burleque revue.

Tony Chenchow, Chenchow Little Architects showed three three finely crafted houses that Chenchow Little have designed.

Lou Weis spoke of the collaborative artowrks that he has been involved in curating and managing in Sydney and Melbourne.

Leanne Rule, AGDA ran a design studio out at Sydney’s in- vogue-industrial-harbour-property-of-the-moment, Cockatoo Island.

Mel Young showed her charming jewellery made up from found objects.

Stephen Collier, rounded off the evening with a presentation on corners. Lots of different kinds of corners, their place in cities, suburbs, and warzones.

The next Pecha Kucha in Sydney will be on Thursday May 31st. I hope to see you there, and I hope we have all the sightline issues sorted….