The Kingpins in 'What I Think About When I Think About Dancing' at Campbelltown Arts Centre

What I Think About When I Think About Dancing is a contemporary interdisciplinary project running from 16 November 2009 – 3 January 2010 at Campbelltown Art Centre, that investigates the shifting boundaries and cross over of dance and visual art practices.

For the project, Campbelltown Arts Centre has brought together 23 dance and visual artists from across Australia and internationally to engage in residencies, performances, an exhibition and publication.

Two Thousand guested edited by The Kingpins

TwoThousand has been taken over by The Kingpins.

Originally bred in Sydney, over the past 10 years The Kingpins have become an electric creative force, balancing photography, video, installation and dressing Beth Ditto with being shop-owners, wives, teachers, drinkers and thinkers. When it comes to art, The Kingpins have a thing for public interventions and mashing together pop culture, media politics, consumption and gender in performances on the streets of Sydney and exhibitions in galleries like Palais de Tokyo and PS1.

The Kingpins family unit generously took time out from talking acquisitions with the MCA and meeting with John Kaldor to curate an art issue. Hold on as they multi-task across Sydney's communities, finding shelter, mushrooms and old favourites in the darkest corners.

See the full issue online at http://www.twothousand.com.au

The Kingpins at Wollongong City Gallery

The Kingpins' survey show Cat of Nine Lives opens this Friday at Wollongong City Gallery. The exhibition is a collection of works from the last nine years of practice and will be on display until 19 July. The artists will conduct a guest lecture alongside the exhibition on Wednesday 10 June from 3.30 - 5pm.

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.

Julian Dashper and The Kingpins in Artspace 24/25

To celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Artspace, Sydney there will be a 3 day event commencing 30 October - 2 November. The project includes twenty-four one-hour exhibitions. As part of this project Julian Dashper's work will feature on Saturday 1 November and The Kingpins will exhibit on Sunday 2 November. For more details see the Artspace website.

The Kingpins at QUT Art Museum

The Kingpins video work, Sydney Infinity (2005), is on exhibition as part of Under the Influence (art & music) at QUT Art Museum, Brisbane. Curated by Simone Jones and Megan Williams the exhibition runs from 11 September - 16 November.

The Kingpins / Official website launched

The Kingpins have now launched their official website. Featured on the website is a complete back back catalogue of videos, performances and photos including their most recent performances, Mystic Rehab at the Musée D'art Moderne, Paris and Great Undead at Estuaire 2007, Nantes. Go to http://www.thekingpins.com.au.

The Kingpins / Opening night photos / Thursday 4 October 6-8pm

The Kingpins / Mashup

Watch this video to see The Kingpins performing live, along with some of their video works.

The Kingpins in Paris

The Kingpins have been included in the exhibition ‘Playback’ at ARC, the contemporary section of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 19 October 2007 - 6 January 2008. 'Playback' is a project focusing on incursions of visual artists in the realm of music, and will gather both music videos directed by visual artists and produced for a label, as well as works influenced by music videos. 'Playback' combines approximatively fifty videos by emerging and established artists realised between the beginning of the 1980's and today, and will include works by Rodney Graham, Olaf Breuning, Wilhelm Sasnal, Paul McCarthy, Wolfgang Tillmans, Doug Aitken, Tony Oursler/Sonic Youth, Philippe Parreno and others.

The Kingpins / Preview Thursday 4 October 6-8pm

The Kingpins latest exhibition, ‘Great Undead’ explores an imaginary space between life and death. In collaboration with Indian Bollywood painters they have manufactured their own Australian epic landscape series, the subject of which is Azaria Chamberlain. The Kingpins remix history, Azaria survived. In parallel possibilities she exists as a 27 year old woman, ‘Queen of the Outback’ a heroine amongst Australian flora and fauna.

To produce the paintings the Kingpins travelled to India to work with Bollywood cinema and sign painters, Muthu Arts and Kumar Arts of Pondicherry. This collaboration allowed the Kingpins to explore a history of cinematic advertising, famous for its hyper-real palette and incredible technical skill. The resulting pastiche is a mesmerising combination. Mothered by dingoes and fathered by popular culture, Azaria Chamberlain appears before us as a fantasy woman, legendary figure of the Australian outback in full-blown Bollywood colour.