This absolutely huge gig is on tonight at the Odeon Theatre in Hobart.
Craig San Roque and I will be on the stage, and the art from the graphic novel will be up on the SILVER SCREEN bigger than it has EVER been!
On Friday, Saturday and Sunday it will be projected onto the Cinemona screen inside the museum, which is smaller – but the 2K projector is wonderful – and it will never look BETTER! Very excited!
It is rather timely to have popped the witch’s hat on again just weeks before the term ‘witch’ once again entered the Australian political vocabulary (Remember ‘Ditch the Witch’? Never forget. Never, ever forget.). Immigration Minister, Peter Dutton this week referred to political editor, Samantha Maiden as a ‘mad fucking witch’ in a text he mistakenly sent directly to her and in reference to her column criticising his colleague, Jamie Briggs (for whom the message had been intended) regarding the sexual harrassment of a younger female colleague.
My general disgust with Australian politics and a feeling of immense powerlessness to enact change through the conventional democratic means has been one driver behind some of the more esoteric explorations I have made as an artist. How else can I affect change? What tools are available to me? Magick seems as legitimate a possibility to me as the…
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So it’s been a big year … um – trying to get my head around what’s happened … below is a list of the bigger things that happened! I’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone who helped me achieve all these things – I am very grateful for the luck in life that has allowed me to be a creative type of human, I know that such luck is not easy for a vast number of humanity.
In January – Neil Gaiman came to Hobart for MONA FOMA and I handed him a copy of The Long Weekend in Alice Springs, which he then tweeted about later on. It seems he liked it. There were a few notables who also read it and loved it which was also very very nice!
April Tour – involved doing some crazy things like taking The Shipwright and the Banshee to Melbourne to perform with Christopher Downes at the Ledger Awards, then flying to Canberra to put on an exhibition Sleuth: The Delegation and then getting back to Hobart with my new Risograph.
In June – I directed the 2nd annual Her Majesty’s Favourite Really Great Graphical Festival in Hobart! Bigger and better! We had a couple of wonderful interstates Nicki Greenberg and Pat Armstrong come to give a wonderful talk at the finest of all events that we put on along with the Tasmanian Writers Centre.
September Tour and PUBLISHING – I launched my new graphic novella Swallows Part One around a few cities such as Hobart, Alice Springs, and in Melbourne. I also had an exhibition of art from the book at Museo Italiano in Carlton, and at Salamanca Arts Centre in Hobart.
In September I also saw the 20 kids readers that I worked on for the last year – as part of the Yankunytjatjara Wangka Project.
Another poster was completed for NPY Womens Council’s Uti Kulintjaku project working closely with Eliatt Rich from Alice Springs – this one was about child development and was translated into Pitjantjatjara and Ngaanyatjarra languages.
In November I was accepted into the inaugural Comic Art Workshop that was held on Maria Island in Tasmania – which was fantastic!! I was working on a future project called Sydney/Purgatorio along with my fellow art-person in crime Craig San Roque.
The Long Weekend in Alice Springs is now in its 3rd print-run and it will be featured in January at MONA FOMA as a performance with Craig San Roque and myself on stage at the Odeon Theatre in Hobart – very exciting.
photo by Tom O’Hern
Josh on an SBS interview with Magica Fossati
http://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/api/radio/player/podcast/400349?node=353847
An article about next weeks Swallows Part One book and launch was put up on my darling Carlton Blues’ website.
Go Andy Carrazzo! Click on the image to go to the article.
The final arresting image of the graphic novel The Long Weekend in Alice Springs is the exposed dreaming of Mt Gillen that stands on the edge of the desert town of Alice Springs. It’s psychic influence radiating through the town quietly, continuously.
This A3 poster print is now available to buy for $20 + postage from San Kessto Publications
ALL of Melbourne is invited to the launch of Swallows Part One
WHERE? Museo Italiano, Co.As.It., 199 Faraday Street, Carlton
WHEN? Thursday the 22nd from 6pm
WHAT? Launch speeches by Bernard Caleo, exhibition opening as WELL !
OMG! Yes! And audiovisual Comic Readings by Joshua Santospirito
BEVVIES? Vino, Chinotto, BEERIO! Convo!
FACEBOOK EVENT
Swallows Part One is also available from Readings Carlton, and online at San Kessto Publications
Joshua Santospirito Art 