Summary
Isol-Aid online music festival poster design 'TAKE FIVE.' by artist and graphic designer Sebastian White, featuring a tray of eggs rendered in dark green and orange. This design references staple grocery items such as eggs, which were popular during Stay at Home orders.
This edition of Isol-Aid also features performances hosted from record store Instagram accounts Northside Records, Jet Black Cat Music, Rocksteady Records and Mills Records.
Physical Description
Full colour digital poster.
Significance
The Isol-Aid poster collection is a visual representation of innovative music festival Isol-Aid, founded and based in Melbourne in direct response to the COVID-19 pandemic as it unfolded in 2020, and its impact on the local music community. These posters provide a rich historical document of contemporary practicing performing artists, many of whom are Victorian based, at this moment in time. The designs also include visual representations of items related to daily life during pandemic restrictions. From an artistic perspective, the designs are highly effective, vibrant and meaningful composition, carring rich potential for interpretaion now, and into the future.
Artist Sebastian White has developed a recognisable visual style for the festival, drawing on a nostalgic packaging design aesthetic, which is evident across the vast array of posters created through 2020. White's designs respond to the impact of the pandemic on daily life with poignancy and humour, creating a new topical visual concept each week. Designs have included references to panic buying, essential grocery items, take away food, sanitisation products, home hair dye, parcel delivery, colouring in, gardening, home exercise, jigsaws, mask wearing and Victoria's Stage 4 restrictions on movement.
Isol-Aid Festival founder, director and programmer Emily Ulman, is a musician, educator, festival curator and music booker, based in Melbourne. The festival was conceived in response to the impact of pandemic restrictions on the Australian music community. The cancelling of events and closure of music venues due to social distancing requirements implemented to stop the spread of COVID-19 in Australia, had a devastating financial and social impact on the Victorian music community. Performing artists and music workers lost income and career opportunties through the cancellation of performance bookings, national and international tours, recording studio bookings and residencies.
The festival arose initially to raise funds for Support Act, "Australia's only not-for-profit organisation to provide relief for musicians and music industry workers facing physical or mental health issues, or financial hardship", and to connect artists and audiences through an online performance experience.
Melbourne is recognised as the live music capital of the world (ABC: Melbourne Live Music Census 2017), and the local music community is valued for the significant cultural, social and economic contribution it makes to the state of Victoria. These posters, as respresentations of the festival, are an expression of the music community's response to issues affecting the livelihood and mental health of artists during the pandemic.
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Collecting Areas
Leisure, Cultural Diversity, Working Life & Trades, Information & Communication, Home & Community, Social Spaces & Youth
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Inscriptions
Page one: '50 ACTS / #5 / The Australian Music Community presents / Isol-Aid / an Instagram Live Music Festival / CONSUME BETWEEN APRIL 18 - 19 / THE BAMBOOS / DEBORAH CONWAY / FRANKIE COSMOS / HERMITUDE / KIAN / MISSY HIGGINS / NGAIIRE / SIMONA CASTRICUM / TINY RUINS / TIRED LION / VERA BLUE /WAAX and more!' /' Signed bottom right 'Sebi' Page two: 'TAKE FIVE. Support the artists and record shops below by tuning into their instagram pages at the times give,! (Times are in AEST) Saturday 18 April / 12:55 WELCOME! @ISOLAIDEFESTIVAL / 13:00 LONTALIUS (NZ) LONTALIUS / 13:20 EMALIA @EMALIAMUSIC / 13:40 BEC STEVENS @BECSTEVENSMUSIC / NORTHSIDE RECORDS : 14:00 LANEOUS @NORTHSIDERECORDS / 14:20 EX OLYMPIAN @NORTHSIDERECORDS / 14:40 THE BAMBOOS @NORTHSIDERECORDS / 15:00 CHRISTIAN LEE HUTSON @CHRISTIANLEEHUTSON / JET BLACK CAT MUSIC: 15:20 OLD SEMEIL @JETBLACKCATMUSIC / 15:40 HOPE D @JETBLACKCATMUSIC / 16:00 TIANA KHASI @JETBLACKCATMUSIC / 16:20 SUNFRUITS @SUNFRUITSBAND / 16:40 TINY RUINS (NZ) @JETBLACKCATMUSIC / 17:00 FRANKIE COMOS (USA) @JETBLACKCATMUSIC / 17:20 THE JIM MITCHELLS @THEJIMMITCHELLS / 17:40 #1 DADS @JETBLACKCATMUSIC / ROCKSTEADY RECORDS : 18:00 BATTS @ROCKSTEADYRECORDS / 18:20 NAT VAZER @ROCKSTEADYRECORDS / 18:40 ROB MUINOS @ROCKSTEADYRECORDS / 19:00 SHANNEN JAMES @SHANNENJAMESMUSIC / 19:20 ASH NAYLOR @EVEN.1994 / 19:40 WAAX @WAAX_BAND / MILLS RECORDS: 20:00 THE FLOORS @MILLSRECORDSFREO / 20:20 LAST QUOKKA @MILLSRECORDSFREO / 20:40 JACOB DIAMOND @MILLSRECORDSFREO / 21:00 HERMITUDE @HERMITUDE / 21:20 SIMONA CASTRICUM @SIMONACASTRICUM / 21:40 FLYYING COLOURS @FLYINGCOLOURS / 22:00 NORTHEAST PARTY HOUSE (DJ SET) @NORTHEASTPARTYHOUSE Sunday 19 April / 13:55 WELCOME @ISOLAIDFESTIVAL / 14:00 AMISTAD @AMISTATMUSIC / 14:20 GORDON KOANG @GORDON.KOANG / 14:40 PHEBE STARR @PHEBE STARR / 15:00 LAWRENCE ROTHMAN (USA) @LAWRENCEROTHMAN / 15:20 PIRRTU @PIRRTUMUSIC / 15:40 MISSY HIGGINS @MISSYHIGGINSMUSIC / 16:00 ALMA ZYGIER @PRESTON_ZYGIER_ / 16:20 HARMONY BYRNE @HARMONYBYRNE / 16:40 AMARINA WATERS @AMARINAWATERS / 17:00 VERA BLUE @VERABLUEMUSIC / 17:20 CODA CHROMA @CODACHROMA / 17:40 RUDELY INTERRUPTED @RUDELYINTERRUPTED / 18:00 LYNDON BLUE @LYNDONXBLUE / 18:20 DEBORAH CONWAY & WILLY ZYGIER @DEBORAHCONWAY / 18:40 KIAN @KIAN.BROWNFIELD / 19:00 HANNY J @HANNYJMSIC / 19:20 MIKE NOGA @MIKENOGA / 19:40 IZY @IZY.MUSIC / 20:00 NGAIIRE @NGAIIRE / 20:20 TIRED LION @TIREDLIONBAND / 20:40 JAMILLA @EMILYJAMILLA / 21:00 PRIVATE FUNCTION @PRIVATEFUNCTION69 / isol-Aid!'
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Keywords
Musicians, Music, Music Festivals, Performing Arts, Fundraising Events, Mental Health, Charity Fundraising, Social Media, Broadcasting, Graphic Design, Graphic Arts, Posters, Welfare, Community Art Festivals, Community Organisations, Community Groups, Music Performances, Homes