U R INvited 2 | FILE NO#7 | poeTart | POET AND ARTIST INTERVIEWS

>>>>>>>>> ARTIST : JESSE WILLISEE

Jesse Willesee is a Sydney based artist, filmmaker and writer whose first volume of poems, YOU PUT A SHIRT ON A HANGOVER AND CALL IT A DAY, was released in 2010. As an artist he is best know for his popular annual SEVEN HUNDRED PHOTOS and PAINTINGS IN HOTEL ROOMS live installation events. 

His latest exhibition launches next week, 22 Girls Smoking Weed, is a series of 22 images. A tribute to those acts of ‘casual art’ and self-portraiture found on popular blogging sites like Tumblr. This show marks the first installment of Jesse Willesee’s ‘Tumblr Trilogy”, a series of exhibitions which explore those artistic, pop cultural and personal preoccupations, known as ‘trending topics”, of the ‘Tumblr generation’ – one of which, time and again, is the use and glamorization of marijuana.

Photographed and filmed entirely on iPhone, using fish-eye lenses and filters, the resulting film and collection of over 40 photographs is part of the emerging iPhone-ography movement which sees artists, filmmakers and photographers forgo traditional equipment and instead capture the world as they see it through modern gadgets.

22 GIRLS SMOKING WEED | Opens Thursday 19th April 2012 | 7PM @ 1A BURTON ST SURRY HILLS (THE OLD DR PONGS)

A JOINT PRODUCTION 
BY JESSE WILLESEE
AND DANIEL HAVAS

WATCH THE VIRAL TEASER TRAILER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c1Mds_Y3lQ

Australian Cafe Poet Program 2012 in association with Talking Through Your Arts 

Saturday | 3PM | 14 April 2012 | Corridor | 153a King Street Newtown |http://www.corridorbar.com.au/