Centre for Contemporary Photography
'Just a Girl', Donna Bailey at Gallery 1; 'Not Only Skin and Fabric' Fassih Keiso at Gallery 2; 'Stalker', Maria Pulera at Project Space; 'Sequence', Shannon Winnell.
Just a Girl
DONNA BAILEY
(Gallery 1)
Featuring twenty large-scale photographic prints, Just a Girl is part
of an ongoing series of documentary images portraying Bailey's own
children and their domestic routine. Exploring portraiture and family
photography genres in relation to contemporary debates around imaging
the child, Just a Girl challenges traditional relationships between
photographer and subject through an emphasis on collaboration and the
non-objective lens.
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Not Only Skin and Fabric
FASSIH KEISO
(Gallery 2)
Over recent years, Keiso's practice has examined tensions between
current Middle-Eastern and Western perceptions of the body and
sexuality. Working with a range of different media, Keiso collects
and connects 'traditional' Arabic elements (in relation to the body)
with technologies like video, sound, slides, photography and computer
imaging. Keiso's Not Only Skin and Fabric installation creates a
sin-bin environment of irony and spectacle, where distinctions
between Eastern 'tradition' and Western 'contemporary' morality and
art are blurred. Keiso interweaves sound and translated text, Arabic
song rhythms, taboo video images of the fragmented human body, and a
documentary of Arab dancing in North East Syria (the place of Keiso's
birth). Note: A performance will take place at the opening from
6:30pm.
Presented in association with the L'Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival
Arts Program
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Stalker
MARIA PULERA
(Project Space)
US photographer, performance artist and writer Maria Pulera presents
a mixed media installation documenting her personal stalking
experience over a three year period. Heralding the stalker as a
troubled icon of female strength, Pulera aims to rescue this figure
from its tabloid/gossip column connotations and to advocate on its
behalf as a dignified professional. Offering an intriguing insight
into the self-determination and border zones of obsessive-compulsive
behaviour and featuring interview footage with real female stalkers,
Pulera promises 'a personal polemic of coming out as a professional
stalker under fire¦ the truth behind my desire...'.
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Sequence
SHANNON WINNELL
(e-Media)
Sequence is an interactive CD-ROM artwork that examines the
ritualistic, almost subconscious nature of the everyday movement, and
how we flow through constructed spaces. These typically disregarded
or forgotten movements are presented as beautiful and fluid - and
fundamentally worthy of our attention. The work features seamless
loops of human behaviour as a finite way to display the infinite, and
also uses loops to display the rhythmic beauty of repetitious
movements. The loops are created with animations, QuickTime movies
and digital photos, as well as sounds and motion graphics, that the
user can explore and alter.
Opening Thursday March 6, 6-8pm
Hours Wednesday - Saturday, 11am - 5pm
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Fashion and Photography Forum
"The greatest fashion photography is more than the photography of
fashion." (Susan Sontag)
Friday 21 March 2003, 6.30 to 7.30 PM
Fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Speakers: Anita Beaney (photographer), Justin Clemens (writer,
lecturer), Susan Dimasi (fashion designer, lecturer, curator) and
Fabio Ongarato (graphic designer) will address the catch-cry that
fashion photography is no longer about fashion, and fashion no longer
just about clothes! The forum will be chaired by CCP Project
Coordinator Daniel Palmer.
Part of the 2003 L'Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival, presented with
Centre for Contemporary Photography
Image: a work by DONNA BAILEY
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