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Canberra Living Artists Week - CLAW 08

For ten days in August, Canberra celebrates imagination and creativity with the living artists of the ACT and region.

During Canberra Living Artists Week (CLAW), from Friday 22 till Sunday 31 August, studios and workspaces are thrown open to the public; teams of artists compete on the streets in City West; Manuka becomes a public gallery; and in Civic a performer is locked in a shop front for 168 feverish hours, while others roam the Canberra CBD on stilts.

The opening night of Canberra Living Artists Week (CLAW) 08 is a giant arts party in Manuka, and everyone is invited. The CLAW opening night launches in style on Friday 22 August at 6.30pm with Make Your Mark II - a one-night-only photographic exhibition of body art on real people - at chic hair salon, Mest.

Nosferati comes into play: a one-off video art installation, sculptural works by some of Canberra's premier artists are on show in The Terrace Display Window. And the launch of the CLAW Cacophony, which includes art-works from over 20 emerging artists, and installations of bamboo, sail and light by the Boo Crew.

Celine Russeau, 2002 Qantas Young Australian Winemaker of the Year, is a special guest at the CLAW Cacophony Launch, and visitors on the night can sample her delicious range from Chalkers Crossing.

From Monday 25 to Friday 29, 666 Seconds of Art is being presented by 666 ABC, which is proud to engage with the arts community in the ACT and support Canberra Living Artists Week.

Everyone is invited to go online from August 23 to watch a live feed from Cabin Fever where circus-trained performance artist Pablo Latona invents devious new ways to kill time in his shopfront home.

With continued support from the foundation sponsor, ANU Exchange, the Iron Chef-style, real-time art making challenge State of Belonging returns. Artists, including Nassar Palangi and Jennifer Martiniello, team up to vie for the CLAW trophy, creating sawdust carpets under the watchful eye of special guest commentator and lead judge, Andrew Frost, writer and presenter of The Art Life on ABC1.

CLAW 08 closes on Sunday 31 August with a cracking party and studio open day at über-industrial M16 Artspace, on the Kingston/Fyshwick border.

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Cabin Fever

Cabin Fever

Cabin Fever is a weeklong live-in performance piece. Performer and teacher of physical theatre Pablo Latona will be locked in an empty shopfront in the middle of Canberra, Australia, with a large assortment of props, tools, toys and odd instruments. Then we all sit back and watch, to see how this professional entertainer amuses himself for a week. He has promised to juggle axes, play an electronic helium balloon piano, tie a knot in a laser beam, learn to fly, and get completely drunk in the name of science. Not necessarily all at once.

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State of Belonging

Whose art reigns supreme? With overtones of the Iron Chef, CLAW’s inaugural flagship event is back. Two teams of artists enter the arts arena on Childers Street in City West to create sawdust carpets interpreting the theme of environmental sustainability as they vie for the CLAW Trophy, created by glass artist Megan Bottari.

The event compresses the process of making and interpreting art into three hours. Andrew Frost, writer and presenter of ABC 1’s The Art Life, stars in the role of Chairman, accompanied by the delightful Deborah Clark, Canberra Museum and Art Gallery visual arts curator, and a host of special guests. More...