As well as being a physical place, Hotel Hotel was a vessel for ongoing artistic and cultural creation. Then and now, we make projects and programs in order to explore our interests, support creative endeavour and have conversations with others about things that are important to us.
Music
When: | Thursday 25 January from 9:30PM until late |
Where: | Monster kitchen and bar |
Cost: | Free |
Go: | FB |
LATE NIGHT LAST FRIDAY - a monthly vinyl set on the last Friday of the month (except this time... this is on Thursday because of the pub hol) at Monster kitchen and bar with MANILA FOLDER.
Taking us 'Into the Cosmos' by playing space house cosmic rock vinyls.
Part of the Salon Gatherings series
Exhibition
When: | Opens Friday 2 February at 6PM. On exhibition until Sunday 11 March, Wed to Sun 10AM to 3PM. |
Where: | Nishi Gallery |
Cost: | Free |
Go: | NG |
‘The Magic of Country’ is an exhibition of painted and collage works by David Lancashire. It presents more than 50 works connected to a larger body of over 200 works started on a long ago trip to MacDonnell Ranges, Alice Springs.
Part of the Nishi Gallery series
Music
When: | Friday 23 February from 9.30PM until late |
Where: | Monster kitchen and bar |
Cost: | Free |
Go: | FB |
LATE NIGHT LAST FRIDAY - a monthly vinyl set on the last Friday of the month at Monster with MANILA FOLDER. This time, MF will be playing hip hop r'n'b electro funk vinyls.
Music
When: | Sunday 25 February from 1PM to 3PM |
Where: | Monster kitchen and bar |
Cost: | $85 (with lunch) or $25 (simple entry) |
Go: | Tix |
Johannes Brahms' 'Clarinet Quintet, Op.115' performed by the Canberra Symphony Orchestra with a two course lunch and sparkling or simple entry.
Part of the Salon Gatherings series
Film
When: | Celebration drinks 6PM - 7PM, Flickerfest 7PM onwards |
Where: | Nishi Gallery, followed by Palace Cinemas |
Cost: | Nishi Gallery, free. Flickerfest, $20 |
Go: | TIX |
Come and celebrate the screening of Alyssa McClelland's ‘Second Best’ at Flickerfest: a dark comedy about the power of identical twin sisters and their unbreakable bond.
Exhibition
When: | Opens Friday 20 April at 6PM. On exhibition until Sunday 22 July. |
Where: | Nishi Gallery |
Cost: | Free |
Go: | NG |
An exhibition of contemporary Australian Muslim art that explores the fractured beauty of the sacred and mundane. Curated by Nur Shkembi and featuring works by Shireen Taweel, Hoda Afshar and Leila El Rayes.
Part of the Nishi Gallery series
A collaboration with Melbourne Design Week to bring new project collaborators Stephanie Macdonald from London-based 6a architects and Sofia von Ellrichshausen from Chilean art and architecture studio Pezo von Ellrichshausen to Australia as part Melbourne Design Week. Melbourne Design Week is an initiative of the Victorian Government in collaboration with the National Gallery of Victoria, running from 15 to 25 March, 2018.
Symposium : Tall Buildings - Their Problems and Some Ideas
22.03.18
Workshop
Design talk: Sofia von Ellrichshausen, Pezo von Ellrichshausen
20.03.18
Talk
Design talk: Stephanie Macdonald, 6a architects
18.03.18
Talk
The Monster Salon and Dining rooms at Hotel Hotel were a reinterpretation of the suburban family rooms of immigrants in Australia post WWII. It was a domestic place. At once a parlour for receiving guests, for talking art and politics, a living room for lolling around by the fire with friends, a place for listening to music, and a room for sharing meals. At times, we gathered old and new friends here to exchange ideas and we host conversations, poetry readings and performances. Fittingly, we often shared stories about immigration, about how immigration increases the textures and layers of a place’s cultural fabric. These are important stories. Especially in a time when the number of people displaced by conflict is at its highest since the aftermath of WWII.
Late Night Last Friday
23.02.18
Music
Strings in the Salon: Winter
23.07.17
Performance
Shelter: Life on the Move
05.07.17
Talk
Strings in the Salon: Autumn
21.05.17
Performance
Lost + Found
07.04.17
Music
Xylouris White
11.03.17
Performance
Strings in the Salon: Summer
12.02.17
Performance
Same Same Different
16.01.17
Talk
Same Same Different Zine
15.01.17
Publication
Strings in the Salon: Spring
18.09.16
Performance
Strings in the Salon: Winter
24.07.16
Music
Strings in the Salon: Autumn
24.04.16
Performance
The Nishi Gallery is a cultural space in Canberra, Australia. It explores human experience through the lens of local identity, objects and their meaning; the natural and built world; design experimentation and artisanal making. Our exhibitions program supports the subversive, the radical and the vernacular. Nishi Gallery is curated by Molonglo and made in collaboration with local, national and international artists and designers, creative and social enterprises, cultural organisations and independent curators via a submissions and commissions process.
The Magic of Country
02.02.18
Exhibition
New Documents: all true things are equal
01.12.17
Exhibition
Legendary
20.10.17
Exhibition
Famiglia: Oh Holy Father
20.10.17
Exhibition
Porosity Kabari
09.06.17
Exhibition
Borrow Tomorrow
07.04.17
Exhibition
Coincidences
18.01.17
Exhibition
Swarm Trap
30.06.16
Exhibition
Perfect Imperfect
28.04.16
Exhibition
For us, architecture is perpetually unfinished, defined by the people who use it rather than by the people who created it. So that is why from time to time we changed our library at Hotel Hotel into a shop. A few times a year we asked friends who run shops that we like to come in and take over the library, transforming it to a one-day shop.
One Day Shop by Perimeter Books
02.12.17
Shop
One Day Shop by Pan After
07.10.17
Shop
One Day Shop by Mr Kitly
11.03.17
Shop
One Day Shop by Perimeter Books
16.07.16
Shop
‘The Other Moderns' is a 300-page book of stories about little-known émigré architects, interior designers and furniture makers who fled Europe in World War II and began working in Sydney in the 1930s. ‘The Other Moderns’ is co-published by Molonglo, Hotel Hotel and NewSouth Publishing; and edited by Rebecca Hawcroft.
A Lunch for 'The Other Moderns'
12.11.17
Eat Drink
The Other Moderns: Sydney’s Forgotten Design Legacy
14.09.17
Publication
You can buy thousands of units of something from somewhere in the world. This is necessary to an extent for today’s populations. But still, we are anxious. Who made those thousand units? Did we really need to order that many? And what do these things even mean to us when we don’t really know anything about them? Fix and Make is a series of workshops and talks that explores these anxieties. Through the practical, the experimental and the philosophical the program brought different people together to actively questions our relationship with and consumption of objects. Fix and Make invited individuals to reconnect with their hands. It encouraged new learning through doing. Through the process of fixing and making we reckon we can gain a better understanding of how things work and apply this knowledge to other areas of life: to solve our own problems; to take control of our own resources; to break our dependence on manufacturers who create products with built-in obsolescence. The annual program,running throughout 2016, brought together more than 60 collaborators to lead workshops and contribute to discussions from fields as diverse as neuroscience, art, design and craft, food, education, music, psychology and the environment.
Make Do: Utility Wear
22.10.17
Workshop
Making as Meditation: Patterns from Plants
17.06.17
Workshop
Make Do: Jugaad
11.06.17
Workshop
Make a Swarm Trap
27.08.16
Workshop
Repair Remake Swap
09.07.16
Workshop
Make a Utility Apron
11.06.16
Workshop
Ghost Net Weaving
01.05.16
Workshop
Invent an Instrument
30.04.16
Workshop
How to Make Toys from Trash
20.04.16
Film
The Art of Kintsugi
09.04.16
Workshop
Oyster Appreciation
02.04.16
Workshop
Knife Making and Preservation
12.03.16
Workshop
Meet the Toymaker
27.02.16
Workshop
Toys from Trash
27.02.16
Workshop
How to Make Camp Furniture with Dale Hardiman
19.02.16
Film
For the Love of Things
10.02.16
Talk
Making as Meditation: Chopsticks
23.01.16
Workshop
Making as Meditation: Chopsticks
16.01.16
Workshop
Make Your Own Camp Furniture
05.12.15
Workshop
19 Objects: New Ways to Value
25.11.15
Talk
Ownership of Things
18.11.15
Talk
Make a Swarm Trap
15.11.15
Workshop
Reshaping Glass
14.11.15
Workshop
We are interested in people. Being interested in people means we are also interested in the objects people make and use. Throughout the ground floor of Hotel Hotel we had several glass cabinets that we used as small exhibition spaces. They were curated by invited curators, artists and designers. The cabinets were a study of human and natural life – artefacts that document our existence and tell a story about who ‘we’ are and what is important to us.
Rainbow's End
07.10.17
Exhibition
Not Wow
11.03.17
Exhibition
Bread + Honey
05.02.16
Exhibition
For School
07.11.15
Exhibition
Anthropologically speaking, rituals connect us to a culture, a sub-culture, maybe even a cult. We have always been curious observers of the repetitive and sometimes strange routines people practise in private. This fascination with human behaviour is the catalyst for a creative project and ongoing study of all the weird and wonderful rituals people do every day. For the project we have created a series of short films directed by U-P and Alyssa McClelland that re-enact the bizarre rituals of others inside the rooms of Hotel Hotel. We’ve also written articles, catalogued everyday rituals across cultures, studied tools and implements connected to rituals and have invited photographers to document their own rituals.
The Ritual of Practise with Alyssa McClelland
25.07.17
Film
The Ritual of Burrowing into Bed with Alyssa McClelland
24.07.17
Film
The Ritual of Reading in Bed with Rosanna Stevens
28.05.17
Performance
The Ritual of Reading in Bed with Rhys Nicholson
26.03.17
Performance
The Ritual of Bush Bathing
19.03.17
Workshop
Le Corbusier's Daily Ritual of Calisthenics
16.06.15
Film
Franz Kafka’s Ritualistic Procrastination
16.06.15
Film
T S Eliot's Daily Face Painting Ritual
16.06.15
Film
Benjamin Franklin's Daily Air Bath Ritual
16.06.15
Film
Emily Bronte's Insomnia Ritual
16.06.15
Film
The Ritual of Limbering Up With Mike Whitney
02.06.15
Performance
The Ritual of Long Walks with Barrie Barton
09.05.15
Performance
The Ritual of Reading in Bed with Emily Sexton
03.05.15
Performance
Cooking. It's a universal language. Our recipes project brought together new ideas coming out of the Monster kitchen and bar. We also ran workshops where people learnt how to make new things.
MasterCake
23.07.17
Workshop
Monster Recipes
07.05.15
Publication
‘Brutti ma Buoni’ comprised of two works. A short film by U-P and Coco & Maximilian featuring Brutalist buildings and an accompanying sound piece by Speak Percussion. Together they work to observe and orchestrally arrange Brutalism. What can we see when we really look at these monolithic structures in detail? What do their rough textures, shadows and unadorned geometries reveal? What might these beasts sound like? Cavernous and vast? Drone-like? Repetitive? Hypnotic? Oppressive, optimistic or sublime?
Brutti ma Buoni Canberra
02.06.17
Performance
Brutti ma Buoni Melbourne
20.05.16
Performance
Repairing. It’s something our grandparents definitely did, but something we are doing less and less. In today’s society repaired objects are often perceived as being of less value. Object Therapy was a project that challenged this preconception, celebrating repair as a creative process that can add value. Object Therapy was a research and making project that culminated in a public exhibition that encouraged us to rethink our consumption patterns and re-evaluate the broken objects that surround us. It explored the almost forgotten role of repair in our society and its possibilities. The project was developed in collaboration with the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and the Australian National University (ANU) and through a research-based approach it was an investigation into the culture of ‘transformative’ repair as practiced by local, interstate and international artists and designers.
Object Therapy Australian Tour
06.04.17
Exhibition
Object Therapy
30.10.16
Exhibition
Panel at ANU, Canberra
27.10.16
Talk
Panel at UNSW, Sydney
20.10.16
Talk
Some people say there are some things that you should never talk about over dinner. We don’t say that. This project brought people together to talk about things we might not ordinarily discuss.
Monster Mash
25.03.17
Eat Drink
Martino Gamper Dinner
24.02.16
Eat Drink
'Favourite Buildings' is an ongoing research project that compiles our favourite buildings out there in the world. There is a definite bent towards brutalist architecture, modernist architecture and vernacular architecture. We're not quite sure where this will go but we're hoarders at heart so we'll keep collecting. One day it will make sense.
Favourite building
15.01.15
Publication