ARTBAR curated by Lauren Brincat

Overview

Once a month the MCA offers an extra late night party through its galleries. During ARTBAR, general public gets to explore its collection in the new light of late-nite, guided through the after-hours experience by a rotating roster of some of Sydney's best up and coming artists. Each month this curating guest artist peppers the gallery with a selection of live art extras, tours or performance. This month's curator? Lauren Brincat.

While a lot of people often get a little worried (and, often, pretty excited) about visiting Mexico, and many are also, more sensibly, worried about the prospect of traversing Mexico City's often chaotic traffic, very few people overcome this anxiety enough to deliberately navigate that city's colonial-era streets by horseback. Lauren Brincat did just that for performance video Mexican Standoff, just part of Brincat's long history of making dangerous art amongst Mexican traffic.

She recently brought the same sensibility, Mexican standoff and horses to the Art Gallery of New South Wales during Pythagoras, Praxiteles, Anthemius…. For ARTBAR, the program looks sadly horse free, but there will be processions galore as the Australian Navy Band leads marching tours of the gallery, Bree van Reyk composes Mexico City soundscapes, dancehall lessons abound on the sculpture terrace and Tyson Koh lays out a brief history of how video killed the radio star.