If you cannot view this email please To forward this email to a friend please   EXPERIENCE A SUMMER SNOWFIELD FREE Saturday 14 November 12.30 - 6.00pm* As part of Primavera 2009 and to coincide with the MCA’s 18th birthday, artist Michaela Gleave will transform the MCA into a winter wonderland when she re-creates a giant snowfield on the front lawn. Best known for her illusory installations, Michaela invites viewers to reconsider their relationship to the natural environment with works that hover between the boundaries of art and science. Instead of a birthday cake, the MCA will be celebrating its anniversary by giving away free snow cones to visitors to the event * This event is weather permitting. COMING SOON   FIONA FOLEY: FORBIDDEN FREE 12 November 2009 - 31 January 2010 Fiona Foley is a leading Australian artist as well as an influential curator, writer and academic. From Fraser Island in Queensland, her diverse practice spans two decades and encompasses painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, mixed media, public art and installation.  With a history of exhibitions featuring uncompromising titles such as No shades of white and Lick my black art, Foley traces the ongoing significance of Australia’s colonial histories. Individual works explore a broad range of themes, such as politics, language, female sexuality, race and the history of opium in Queensland...more info   TAKE YOUR TIME: OLAFUR ELIASSON PAID 10 December 2009 - 11 April 2010 This summer the MCA presents the must-see contemporary art event of the year, Take your time: Olafur Eliasson. From the artist behind the hugely successful Weather Project installation in London’s Tate Modern and last year’s New York City Waterfalls Project, this is the first large-scale exhibition of works by the Danish-Icelandic artist ever presented in Australia. From light-filled environments to walk-in kaleidoscopes, his unique participatory works examine the intersection of nature and science, and explore the boundary between the organic and the artificial. Head to the exhibition’s dedicated website  eliasson.com.au for more information. NOW SHOWING      FINAL DAYS  MAKING IT NEW  Closing 11 November         2 WEEKS LEFT     PRIMAVERA 2009     Closing 22 November          NEW ACQUISITIONS     Until 31 January   UPCOMING EVENTS   IN CONVERSATION: FIONA FOLEY Saturday 14 November, 2.30 – 3.30pm Fiona Foley discusses her practice with Alison Kubler, Associate Curator University of Queensland Art Museum and freelance curator and writer, providing a unique insight into one of Australia’s most significant artists. FREE   LECTURE: DOUGLAS KAHN Thursday 19 November, 6.30 – 8.00pm As part of a national tour, renowned sound art theorist Douglas Kahn presents a lecture on sound and electromagnetism. Kahn writes that since the mid-1960s, artists and musicians have begun setting up shop along parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, from natural radio and brainwaves, to the gamma of nuclear radiation. Even visible light. To account for this surge in artistic energies, it is necessary to go back to the 19th Century and rewrite the history of communications technologies in terms of nature...more info $10/$8 MCA Members & Concessions Bookings Essential: education@mca.com.au or 02 9245 2484   FINAL PERFORMANCE ARTIST PERFORMANCE: SPAT + LOOGIE Saturday 21 November, 2.00 – 4.00pm* Primavera 2009 artists spat+loogie invite you to join in their performance piece PIE, a one-on-one conversation with an artist or curator. After the conversation, you then choose to share dessert with them, or alternatively, to throw the pie in their face! *Weather Permitting FREE NEWS/SPECIAL OFFERS   VOTE FOR THE MCA  The FBi & Time Out Sydney Music, Arts & Culture (SMAC) awards are given to the artists, musos, venues, promoters, creators & culture makers who keep Sydney's heart beating. This year the MCA exhibition I walk the line: new Australian drawing has been nominated for a SMAC award under the category of ‘Best Arts Event’. Everyone who votes goes into the draw to win great prizes, cast your vote here: http://smacawards.com     SYDNEY DANCE COMPANY SPECIAL OFFER  Save 30% Immerse yourself in Sydney Dance Company's dynamic and atmospheric new production, Mercury. This cutting-edge dance performance features a inspired set by Jens Sethzman. Strongly influenced by architecture and light, it features a central 'quicksilver sun' in the form of a kinetic, mirrored sculpture.  For more info go to: www.sydneydancecompany.com Dates: 17-28 November Price: $40 ($20 off) in A Reserve only Book now: Quote 'friends' when booking at Sydney Theatre Box Office tel. 02 9250 1999 or   The Primavera exhibition series was founded in 1992 through the generous benefaction of Dr Edward Jackson AM and Mrs Cynthia Jackson AM and their family, in memory of their late  daughter and sister Belinda.   Primavera 2009 Major Partner        Snowfield has been assisted by:   Take your time: Olafur Eliasson is organised by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Lead support was provided by Helen and Charles Schwab and the Mimi and Peter Haas Fund. Generous support was provided by the Bernard Osher Foundation, the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, and SFMOMA’s Collectors Forum.   Major Partner Major Exhibition Supporter             Strategic Partner         Media Partner   Media Partner   Images: Michaela Gleave Snowtest (detail) 2009 Cinematic snow. Installation dimensions variable. Courtesy and copyright the artist. Photograph: Michaela Gleave. Fiona Foley HHH #4 (detail) 2004 ultrachrome print on paper, edition of 15. Image courtesy the artist, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane and Niagara Galleries, Melbourne © the artist. Photograph: Dennis Cowley. Olafur Eliasson Beauty (detail) 1993 fresnel lamp, water, nozzles, hose, wood, pump. Installation view at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Image courtesy and © the artist. Khaled Sabsabi Co-existence 2009 polycotton, thread, steel and plastic. © the artist. Photograph: Jenni Carter. Ross Manning Sad Majick  2009 mixed meda dimensions variable. © the artist. Photograph: Jenni Carter. Gemma Smith Adaptable (dark peach/red oxide) (detail) 2008 synthetic polymer paint on aircraft plywood, polyester. Museum of Contemporary Art, purchased with assistance of Dr Edward and Mrs Cynthia Jackson, 2009. Image courtesy the artist and Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney © the artist. Fiona Foley Wild Times Call 6 (detail) 2001 type C photograph, edition of 10. Image courtesy the artist, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane and Niagara Galleries, Melbourne © the artist. Photograph: Peter Foe. Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts (1999) by Douglas Kahn. spat+loogie PIE 2009 performance. Photographic documentation from Museum of Contemporary Art performance 2009. Richard Lewer 03/03/09  2009  charcoal on the wall Installation view, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2009 Photograph: Jenni Carter.       SUBSCRIBE TO THIS NEWSLETTER HERE  UNSUBSCRIBE HERE