Guy Benfield at Art in General, New York

Guy Benfield in included in Erratic Anthropologies at Art in General as part of the New York visual art performance biennial, Performa 09.

Through three performative installations Guy Benfield, Shana Moulton, andRancourt/Yatsuk mine the visual culture of flawed but influential community structures - the hippie commune and the American suburb. Using narrative strategies the artists act as quasi-anthropologists, investigating domestic objects and architectures to pick apart the promises identified with these cultures - wealth, power, happiness, and transcendence.

With a dose of the fantastic, these artists highlight the psychological, economic, and environmental fallout from the failure of idealistic attempts at redefining western social dynamics. The exhibition runs 29 October - 9 January 2010.

Guy Benfield solo exhibition at Art in General, New York

Guy Benfield’s Night Store will be an eight-week long performative installation in Art in General’s Storefront Project Space.

Drawing on tropes of modernism, faux ceramics, sculpture, painting, collage, and references to alternative collectives, Benfield transforms the architecture of space from white-box gallery to pottery showroom, to artist studio, and eventually overcrowded storage-space.

Through various situational episodes in this non-stop evolution, Benfield explores the relation between current artistic practice and supposedly defunct strains in performance including ritual, transcendency in Aktionism, and live-action painting. Imagining the trauma of pottery as an expressionist dialogue, Benfield considers the space of the storefront as a kiln in which failure and unpredictable success commingle while pretense is burned away.

Ms & Mr at Sydney Underground Film Festival and The Physics Room, Christchurch

Ms & Mr have a solo show, Physics is Pate, opening at the Christchurch contemporary art project space The Physics Room. The exhibition preview is Tuesday 15 September and runs until 11 October.

Ms & Mr also have a screening of their work The Lovecats (2007) as part of the Sydney Underground Film Festival. The work will feature in the Recycled Cinema Program on Sunday 13 September.

Julian Dashper at Auckland Art Gallery

The work of Julian Dashper will be showcased as part of For Keeps, an exhibition of the Auckland Art Gallery's recent acquisitions. Curated by Natasha Conland, the exhibition includes a range of both New Zealand and international artists. The exhibition runs from 18 June until 12 July.

Julian Dashper at Laure Genillard Gallery, London

Julian Dashper is exhibiting alongside Australian artist John Nixon at Laure Genillard Gallery in London. The exhibition brings together two artists who are both are concerned with ‘painting’ as a subject rather then a process. Dashper will show, among other works, Untitled (Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue # 5), which is based on the legendary work by Barnett Newman. The exhibition runs until 18 June 2009.

Maria Cruz at PABLO Fort Gallery, Philippines

Maria Cruz has a solo show at PABLO Fort, Fort Bonifacio in the Philippines. The exhibition, Your daydreams reveal something about your ethnic background, opens 17 April and runs until 16 May.

Guan Wei at 10th Havana Biennial, Cuba

Guan Wei has presented his painting installation 'Rising Sea Level' at the 10th Havana Biennial in Cuba. The Biennial runs from March - April and the theme for 2009 is Integration and Resistance in the Global Age. The curators for this Biennial are Margarita González, Nelson Herrera Ysla, José Manuel Noceda, Ibis Hernández Abascal, Margarita Sánchez Prieto, José Fernández Portal and Dannys Montes de Oca Moreda. See the blog for more images of Guan Wei's installation.

Guan Wei at PKM Gallery, Beijing

Guan Wei is currently exhibiting as part of the group show Anamnesis and Extrapolation at PKM Gallery, Beijing. His painting "Chinese Map of the World" (2008) is exhibited alongside the work of eleven other artists. The exhibition runs until 26 April.

Guy Benfield at Hendershot Gallery, New York

Guy Benfield and Daniel Noonan will be exhibiting together at Hendershot Gallery in New York. Both are Brooklyn-based Australian artists and this will be the second collaboration they have taken on together. The exhibition opens 13 March and runs until 11 April.

David Rosetzky to exhibit in the ICP Triennial of Photography and Video

David Rosetzky has been invited to participate in the Third Annual International Centre of Photography Triennial of Photography and Video in New York.

The exhibition will feature works by approximately thirty international artists chosen by the ICP curatorial team - Vince Aletti, Kristen Lubben, Christopher Phillips, and Carol Squiers. Rosetzky's 'Portrait of Cate Blanchett' has been selected for the show. The exhibition opens 18 September, 2009 and runs until 3 January, 2010.

Guan Wei at Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei

Guan Wei is currently exhibiting as part of the group show 'Spectacle - to each his own' at Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei. His installation 'Heaven and Earth' will be on display until 12 April.

Maria Cruz and David Griggs at MO_Space, Manila.

David Griggs and Maria Cruz will be exhibiting new work at MO_Space in Manila. The group show will feature four painters with ongoing connections to the Philippines. The exhibition opens Saturday 28 February and runs until 30 March.

Sally Smart exhibits 'The Exquisite Pirate' at the Embassy of Australia, Washington

Tonight Sally Smart will open her installation The Exquisite Pirate at the Embassy of Australia in Washington DC. The exhibition will be on display until 3 April 2009, and will be open to the public 10am - 2pm weekdays.

David Griggs in the Jakarta Biennale 09

David Griggs will be exhibiting as part of the Jakarta Biennale due to open in February 2009. Curated by Agung Hujatnikajennong the biennale is titled 'Fluid Zones' and will be divided into two sections, one of which will show works that results from residency and trips to Southeast Asian region, and the other will feature contemporary Southeast Asian artists. Griggs will be exhibiting a selection of works made during his visits to Manila.

David Griggs in Serial Killers at Green Papaya Art Projects, Quezon City

David Griggs has been selected to participate in the group exhibition 'Serial Killers' which opens this week at Green Papaya Art Projects in the Philippines. The exhibition considers serialisation as a conceptual strategy in the work of nineteen artists. 'Serial Killers' runs from 6 December - 20 December.

The Kingpins & The Gossip at Art Basel Miami with Deitch Projects

The Kingpins and The Gossip will headline for Deitch Projects launch event at Art Basel Miami 2008. The collaborative project Conversation Piece was commissioned by Deitch Projects (New York) for their renowned Art Basel Miami opening event. Held at the Raleigh Hotel in South Beach, the Deitch Projects event is the legendary annual launch party of Art Basel Miami.

For one night only The Kingpins and American band The Gossip will combine forces to present a live performance. Normally two distinct artistic collectives, Conversation Piece will allow a dialogue between the creative groups, a conversation of re-mixing music, re-contextualising lyrics and sampling musical tropes.

The installation for their live performance, designed and created by The Kingpins, will reflect this exchange of ideas with giant speech bubbles constructed from the text designs found on hundreds of t-shirts. Fashion tees, protest tees, rock n roll tees and corporate tees are sewn together to create a tapestry of quotes. Political statements, cheap slogans and fan regalia will merge in a cacophony of voices that is Conversation Piece.

Guy Benfield at CAPC, Bordeaux

Guy Benfield will be exhibiting in the group show Axis Bold as Love which opens at CAPC Musee d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux on 3 October. Curated by Liv Barrett and James Deutsher the exhibition runs until 7 December.

Julian Dashper at The Suburban and PS1/MoMA

Julian Dashper has a solo exhibition opening at The Suburban in Chicago on 12 October. He has also curated a group show 'The" which includes the work of Ralf Brog, Alicia Frankovich, John Nixon and Marie Shannon, it opens in The Suburban's second gallery space on the same date.

Dashper's work has also been selected for a major survey exhibition to celebrate Minus Space's 5th anniversary. Curated by Phong Buiof the exhibition opens at PS1 Contemporary Art Centre / MoMA, New York on 19 October.

Ms & Mr and Del Kathryn Barton / Show Me Your World / Berlin

Ms & Mr and Del Kathryn Barton are part of an upcoming exhibition of contemporary Australian art in Berlin curated by Hannah Mathews. The exhibition, Show Me Your World, coincides with the 5th Berlin Biennale. The exhibition can be viewed at Gitte Weise Gallery, Berlin, 3 April - 3 May 2008.

David Rosetzky at Artissima 14

David Rosetzky will be exhibiting at Artissima 14 The International Fair of Contemporary Art in Turin, 9-11 November. His work will be included as part of Video Lounge curated by Cecilia Alemani. Centered around the themes of war, peace and ecstasy the exhibition features recent creations by artists working with film, video and animation.