Outsiders Festival - Adelaide 2009 update

vans · Joined: 16 Feb 2009 Posts: 65

Stefan,

Where do I go to find out more about your festival, besides wading though all your blogs. What is the purpose of it? Is it to make you some cash, or is there a deeper meaning-like, are you affiliating with some charity, and donating any of the proceeds ( which wouldnt be a bad idea to get the crowds in, and get some extra plugs) Or what/
I am actually quite intrueged,especially about the video/projection idea. I have had similar ideas for a while but got stuck.
If it is only to line your pocket, I may lose the interest, but if there is a deeper agenda, I want to know more.

Stefan Maguran

Lining my pockets with $20 per entry (three paintings) - you must be kidding. It would not cover the internet costs so far (remember I have started this one year ago). Not to mention the paid advertising for the festival - you may note an icon popping up from time to time on this site. It is not a charity either, although I am a member of Arts-access and Tutti and CAN. It is to create awareness and to make some money for the artists that are exhibiting (remember I take only 10%). Some of the artists are members of Arts-access, Club 68, etc.
All the information is on www.outsidersfestival.blogspot.com and I am very happy to clarify any concerns with you via email (listed on my blog), if you wish.
This year there are no proceeds to be shared with anyone, apart from the money that will go direct to the artists if works sell.
Next year, we will look at getting Arts-access and other organisations more involved.
It may sound disappointing, but this is how it is.

Stefan Maguran · Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 8:16 am Post subject: Some wonderful news

The Friendly Street Poets
friendlystreetpoets.org.au
will present a 20 minute program at the opening of the Outsiders Festival - Adelaide -1- 30 November 2009 on
1 November 2009 at 1:00 PM
at the West Torrens Auditorium
1 Brooker Terrace, Hilton, SA
The program will most likely include Jenny Toune who uses tap dancing (she is a professional choreographer & very skilled) to tell the history of slavery. She won the Friendly Street Poets performance poetry competition. And Kerryn Tredrea who writes deeply personal, evocative, strange and edgy poetry that fascinates people.

gggraph · Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 9:38 am Post subject: Re: Some wonderful news

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Stefan Maguran

Open studios during the Outsiders Festival
Adelaide 1-30 November 2009

http://outsidersfestival.blogspot.com/

Stefan Maguran · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 7:55 am Post subject: Leon Woods - a passion for nature

http://outsidersfestival.blogspot.com/

enjoy!

Hayley · Joined: 05 Feb 2007 Posts: 344 Location: Geelong

Stefan Maguran · Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 8:22 am Post subject: Two weeks to go

Here is a snapshot:

http://outsidersfestival.blogspot.com/2009/10/two-weeks-to-go-here-is-snapshot.html

Thanks all for your kind support.

Stefan Maguran · Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 5:45 am Post subject: The Warriapendi Outsiders

A very encouraging presence of the young generation in the Outsiders Festival - Adelaide 1- 30 November, a group of students from the Warriappendi High School.

http://outsidersfestival.blogspot.com/2009/10/warriapendi-outsiders.html

enjoy!

Stefan Maguran · Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 4:06 pm Post subject: About Outsider Art

Excepts from 2008 Arts Access Fringe 08, Opening Speech by Paul Hoban (Uni of SA, School of Art) March 2008

“The word ‘Outsider’ suggests something outside of a boundary -a boundary that defines what is inside and what is not. In reality, I do not believe that art has such boundaries. The margin, in fact, is a reservoir that ‘mainstream’ art has drawn on for inspiration - to re-invent, to redefine and challenge itself… and even to contradict.
‘Outsider Art’ has become a generic term - incorporating not only artists with mental, intellectual or physical disabilities, but also embracing folk artists, ‘intuitives’, naïve and other visionary artists - across cultures. Outsider art is certainly not peripheral. It is genuinely multicultural.
Invariably, the most important artists are those whose work consciously or innocently challenges the rules. It seems to me, that many artists who are now admired for their originality were considered Outsiders in their time.
The most well known example is Van Gogh - a difficult, abject and lonely artist, rejected even by his peers… In his lifetime he never sold a single painting. Even his contemporary Cezanne, whose paintings challenged painting conventions and inspired Cubism, considered Van Gogh’s work to be the product of ‘a madman’… Today, a single Van Gogh painting can sell for a hundred million dollars!
Today, Outsider art is taken very seriously around the world. It is big business. Specialist galleries and museums are popping up everywhere - France and Germany, Holland, Belgium, Japan, Britain, US and Canada to name a few.
Works from Lausanne’s Art Brut and Heidelberg’s Prinzhorn Collections are constantly touring the world… In January, New York hosted its 16th International Outsider Art Fair, the European Outsider Art Fair will commence in Vienna in May. Why not an International Outsider Art Fair in Australia?... in Adelaide? These art fairs are now seen as major events in the International Art Calendar.
I encourage everyone to start collecting now!”

Indeed! Why not?

Stefan Maguran · Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 10:12 am Post subject: Joanne Chua - get inspired

http://outsidersfestival.blogspot.com/2009/10/joanne-chua.html

enjoy!

Stefan Maguran · Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 7:28 am Post subject: Opening the Outsiders Festival

I am humbled and happy to announce that the first international Outsiders Festival - Adelaide 1-30 November 2009 will be open by Olga Sankey, Senior Lecturer in Visual Arts at the University of South Australia, a passionate researcher in Outsider Art.

Stefan Maguran

This will appear in the Australian next week:
"The Outsiders Festival

Beginning tomorrow 1 November 2009 this is a month-long festival celebrating the work of people with no formal training in the arts and involves visual art exhibitions at various locations in Adelaide, including the West Torrens Auditorium, the Steve Langdon Studio and the Stefan Maguran Rumpus Room Gallery. Organiser Stefan Maguran quotes: ``outsider art'' consists of works produced by people who for various reasons have not been culturally indocrinated or socially conditioned. Working outside the fine art system including schools, galleries and museums, these people produce from the depths of their own personalities works which owe nothing to tradition or fashion but are often of outstanding originality in concept, subject and techniques.
The Outsiders Festival, various times and venues. More information: www.outsidersfestival.blogspot.com"
under the signature of
John Stapleton
Editor
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