Salon DATE & TIME: Friday 17 October, 9:15- 10:30am, 11:15am-12:30pm, 1:30-2:45pm, 3:30-4:45pm. Saturday 18 October, 9:15-10:30am, 11:15am-12:30pm, 1:30-2:45pm, VENUE: Goldfields Arts Centre - Upstairs Gallery Workshop ACCESSIBILITY: P TOILET Time to get some serious style in your lovely locks. Starlady, queen of the desert, is a radical hairdresser who works across remote Australia, using hairdressing to explore glamour, health and wellbeing. Kalgoorlie local Kate Fielding is a Sidney Myer Creative Fellow who is writing a book about social change hair salons based on her experiences in remote Australia and around the world. Mel Balkan is an interdisciplinary artist weaving a unique, hairpin line through the anthropological tangle of ‘what is art’ using hair. Star, Kate and Mel will run an experimental salon space in the Summit, in which people can style each others’ hair whilst talking up the big issues. This is live art that examines the roles of salons and barbershops as a place to explore identity, gender, pleasure and inclusion in Australia, informed by the wild style of our desert heart.
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 05:00:00 +0000
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