TopSpace Studio

29/05/2024

Attention Photographers,
Film Makers and Artists!
Beautiful studio for rent from mid July to the end of October.

16/05/2024

Our philosophy Salon is starting next week! If you're interested, Ingo Farin is also talking on Friday at Fuller's Book Shop at 5:30 on Kieran Setiya's Book: Life is Hard.

Philosophy as a Way of Life

13/03/2024

We had a great workshop finding out all about making a Photobook. Thanks a lot to Regina Anzenberger.

01/03/2024

I’m excited to announce our international guest from Vienna, Regina Anzenberger. She will give a workshop on ‘Making your Photobook’ on the 9th March, 10am - 1pm at TopSpace Studio. She’ll talk about everything you need to know if you’re thinking of making your photobook: editing, sequencing, making a dummy, layout, binding, paper choice, self publishing or how to find publishers. This workshop will get you started if you are thinking about making your photo book. Limited number only!

Make your Photobook Workshop

06/02/2024

One of my 16mm films 'Queenstown Ghosts', has been selected to be screened at ACMI on the 20th February. Can't wait! Come along and join us for a great experimental film night.

Join members of Melbourne’s Artist Film Workshop as they introduce and screen a selection of 16mm films that celebrate the pleasures of working with celluloid.

30/01/2024

This is a hands-on workshop that will give you the opportunity to learn about and try out the various kinds of analogue cameras that are readily available. From retro cameras to contemporary film cameras (e.g. pinhole, Lomography and Polaroid), in 35mm, medium, and large format. You will learn about their creative possibilities and what they can and cannot do.

We will spend the morning with an introduction to analogue cameras and film. We will touch on exposure, aperture, light meters and what types of cameras to use where and when. In the afternoon you'll be working with the camera of your choice in the studio or on location (depending on your interests). This workshop is not about creating postcard images but about experimentation and open new ways of seeing, but most of all, to play and have fun.

This workshop is a fun day of experimentation and discovery.

25/01/2024

Another inspiring Philosophy Salon on Literature, Film and Philosophy Today. This salon is open enough to accommodate impromptu readings and presentations of one’s own creative work:
What is the role and relevance of literature, poetry, film, and philosophy today? How do word and image relate to each other? How are imagination, emotion, memory, beauty, and truth manifest in today’s world? We will be addressing these issues by reading short texts by, among others, Milan Kundera, Richard Flanagan, Virginia Woolf, Andrey Tarkovsky, Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Christa Wolf, Paul Celan, Ingeborg Bachmann. In addition, we will also show and discuss clips of movies, especially by Andrey Tarkovsky

Get tickets on Humanitix - Philosophy Salon with Dr. Ingo Farin: Literature, Film and Philosophy today hosted by TopSpacestudio. TopSpace Studio, 109 Elizabeth St, Hobart TAS 7000, Australia. Dates from Tuesday 17th October 2023. Find event information.

10/01/2024

The Analogue Projecct

15/11/2023

I'm so please to announce Phillip England,(tasmaniantintype.com) will share the art of making Tintype photographs in this workshop on the 9th December. Don't miss out on this great opportunity to learn an amazing historical technic of making photographs. Limited spaces of 4-6 only.
https://events.humanitix.com/wetplate-collodion-tintype-workshop

31/10/2023

Getting ready for tonight’s Philosophy Salon

28/10/2023

Coming up at TopSpace Studio on Sunday, 5th November. Learn about the various cameras, films and technics that analogue has to offer in this one day fun workshop!
https://events.humanitix.com/the-analog-project

27/10/2023

15/10/2023

What a great screening we had yesterday with an amazing and engaged audience. Watching 'The Platypus Guardian' and 'Road Kill Warriors' in the Studio with a very lively Q&A with Pete Walsh and Ruth Waterhouse afterwards. Thanks everybody for coming. 😀

12/10/2023

For those who want to come to individual sessions of the philosophy salon, please let us know beforehand so we can send you the readings. $40 on the day (cash only)
Here is the schedule:
October 17th: Introduction: Western Philosophical Thought on Art (from Plato to Clement Greenberg). Texts: Plato, Book X of the Republic and Greenberg “Avant-Garde and Kitsch.”

October 24th: Schopenhauer. Text: “The Object of Art” (from the Third Book of World as Will and Representation)

October 31st: Nietzsche. Text: “The Birth of Tragedy.”

November 7th: Heidegger. Text. “The Origin of the Work of Art.”

November 14th: Benjamin. Text. “The Work of Art in the Age of Reproducibility”

Philosophy Salon with Dr. Ingo Farin on Art and Philosophy, Hosted at TopSpace Studio, 109 Elizabeth St, Hobart TAS 7000, Australia, Tue 17th Oct 2023, 6:00 pm - Tue 14th Nov 2023, 8:00 pm AEST. Tickets are between $150-$200. Only on Humanitix

21/09/2023

https://events.humanitix.com/the-analog-project

The Analog Project, Hosted at TopSpace Studio, 109 Elizabeth St, Hobart TAS 7000, Australia, Sat 7th Oct 2023, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm AEDT. Tickets are only $160. Only on Humanitix

19/09/2023

An exciting new chapter at TopSpace Studio as we welcome screenings!! I am so happy to host this wonderful double bill of our fabulous Tasmanian creatives doing what they do best. Get in quick, these events are designed to be small and intimate to build community. See you there!!!
To book please click this link: https://events.humanitix.com/tasmanian-abc-documentary-special-screening

13/09/2023

https://viewcameraaustralia.org/2023/09/13/darkroom-ilona-schneider/

Hobart photographer Ilona Schneider talks about her darkroom.

01/09/2023

Open Studio Friday afternoons. Come and share some Schnapps ideas!

01/09/2023

Open Studio this afternoon from 4pm. Come by and say hi

18/08/2023

Open Studio: Come by, say hi. Friday afternoon Knock-off drinks from 4pm-6pm at TopSpace Studio.

14/08/2023

Introduction to developing and printing black & white film

14/08/2023

Introduction to Analogue Photography