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18/9/2002

Four exhibitions

Centre for Contemporary Photography - CCP, Fitzroy

Love at First Sight
Chris Barry, Pat Brassington, Janina Green, Siri Hayes, Rebecca Ann Hobbs, Tracey Moffatt, Selina Ou, Sanja Pahoki, Kimberly Roxburgh, Julie Rrap, Anne Zahalka.
Curated by Sanja Pahoki
Gallery 1 & 2

'from the first moment that I handled my lens with a tender ardour... it has become to me as a living thing, with voice and memory and creative vigour' - Julia Margaret Cameron, 1874

Historically, from Margaret Cameron onwards, photography has been a medium that has been embraced by women. Love at First Sight is a celebration of this long-standing relationship. The exhibition recontextualises a genre in photography that has been around since the invention of the camera: portraits. The impact of photography on this genre has been so extensive that portraits are often synonymous with photographic portraits.

Love at First Sight celebrates women in front of, behind and next to the camera. The exhibition is composed of three photographic portrait series. Janina Green's large-scale hand-coloured series captures adolescent girls in the sexually charged space between childhood and becoming women. Siri Hayes' mural-sized colour photographs are a contemporary interpretation of the Renaissance figures of Madonna and Child. Finally, the self-portrait series by 10 photo-based women artists at different stages of their careers, offers an investigation of their relationship to the camera as mechanical tool, and to image-making in general.

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT presents works by leading artists alongside those of emerging artists and rising talents. Tracey Moffatt's 'Self-Portrait' (1999) exhibits for the first time in this unique collection, while Pat Brassington and Anne Zahalka have produced new works specifically for this exhibition.

This project was supported by a Pat Corrigan artist grant, managed by NAVA with financial assistance from the Australia Council.

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Don't go out walkin'
Geneine Honey (Music by Carl Williams)
Project Space

Don't Go Out Walkin' is a black and white video projection that explores clichés that have historically been presented within the cinematic genre of Film Noir, re-presenting them as triggers for our psychological fear of the unknown. The work assumes a similarity with Film Noir type cinema in order to emphasise the techniques within this cinematic milieu that create an irrational fear of the most ordinary of daily activities (such as walking alone at night), and points to the sensationalised and dramatised scenarios that one might imagine. Juxtaposed against this is the sugary surface of a pop song with lyrics that gently mock the paranoid inventions of a hyperactive imagination. Don't Go Out Walkin' is in essence a miniature thriller packaged with an antidote.

This project was supported by a Pat Corrigan artist grant, managed by NAVA with financial assistance from the Australia Council.

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BananaMilk
Sangbum Kim
e-Media Gallery

BananaMilk (2002) is a collection of miniature interactive web-based videos inspired by the approach of pop artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and James Rosenquist, who sought to stress all that was wonderful or ambiguous in the most ordinary objects. The work derives from experiments with putting visual art online, and realising that the web changes the very nature of imagery. In response, the works take inspiration from magazines, television, cinema, everyday life experience and old memories. The works juxtapose an archive of mass media images and abstract sounds to propose a deeper, ironic mystery in popular and historical events.

Sangbum Kim is an artist and interactive designer. He was born in Seoul, Korea and is currently working in Des Moines, Iowa. See http://www.bananamilk.com Curated by CCP Project Coordinator Daniel Palmer.

Centre for Contemporary Photography
Dates. September 20 - October 19. 2002

Opening Thursday September 19, 6-8pm

Gallery hours. Wednesday - Saturday 11am - 5pm

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Photo-Synthesis: Explorations into Contemporary Photomedia
2002 CCP Lecture series

Wednesday September 18 @ 6.30pm
Picturing the Digital
Alessio Cavallaro, Linda Erceg & Keely Macarow
Chaired by Daniel Palmer

What has become of the image in the digital age? How are digital technologies - the metamedia tool of the computer - continuing to influence the practice of image making? What is 'digital art', when a majority of contemporary art and photomedia passes through a digital phase at some point in its production? This panel session considers this theme in relation to contemporary art practice and exhibition. Alessio Cavallaro, Producer/Curator of New Media Projects at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Federation Square, will consider the role of this new institution and its dialogue with contemporary art practice; digital media artist Linda Erceg will discuss the trajectory of her art practice from analogue photography to digital installations; Keely Macarow, curator, writer, media arts producer and lecturer in the Media Arts department at RMIT University, will discuss her mediating role between contemporary art and digital technologies. The session will be chaired by CCP's digital art curator, Daniel Palmer, and will be of particular interest to artists working between photography and new media.

Tickets $7/$5 For bookings or information contact CCP: 9417-1549

Centre for Contemporary Photography
205 Johnston St
Fitzroy Vic 3065
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