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9/4/2003

Four exhibitions

Centre for Contemporary Photography - CCP, Fitzroy

Wild Thing
NICOLA LODER
(Gallery 1)

Wild Thing uses digital imaging techniques to explore ideas about Australian identity, juxtaposing rural landscape scenes with urban tourist sites, sheep with human hordes. Commenting on the relationship between photography, painting and new media, Loder creates images that are part fact, part fiction. Sparsely populated by individuated sheep, her radically elongated landscapes act as a metaphor for an Australian 'wooliness' about identity. In contrast, overly populated and fragmented European cityscapes depict tourist crowds flocking to common sites of attraction, oblivious to the fact that they are being photographed. Their oblivion raises questions about the nature of human identity, ethics and responsibility, particularly in relation to genetic modification and cloning.

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The Neighbour's House
BRONWYN COUPE
(Gallery 2)

Objects, events, emotions and daydreams - all equally real - inhabit the place of childhood. The Neighbour's House is based on the childhood home of composer Mary Anne Slavich. Coupe invites the audience to participate in making the work - 'building' the house through sound and video. In the gallery, five lamps illuminate mats laid on the floor in a configuration that loosely reflects the plan of a house. By stepping on the mats, the audience can create a musical score, one composed and played by the movement of the people in the space. The music gives way to moving image, specific to the 'room' where the last visitor stands. Progressing through the rooms reveals the floor plan of the house. Once completed it fades away.
Music by Mary Ann Slavich

This project is Canberra Contemporary Art Space Touring Project and has been supported by the ACT Government through its Cultural Council, by the Museums and Galleries Foundation of NSW through the assistance of the NSW Ministry for the Arts, and by the Australia Council, the Federal Government's arts funding and advisory body.

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After the War
Darran McCrann
(Project Space)

After the war is a collection of photographic images and mutant objects. The central theme explores a mindscape, post trauma. The photographs depict strange phenomena that interrupt a solo journey through an unpredictable environment. At the core of the work are themes of helplessness and hope.

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Information Narrative
Joyce Rudinsky
(e-Media)

An interactive digital art project, Information Narrative consists of three stories collaged from found mass media material - from newspapers, magazines, radio, television and the Internet. Its various digressions mimic a sense of the 'information overload' currently affecting Western society. The three stories engage with issues such as gender politics, evolutionary biology and taste - themes that endlessly appear in the media and impact on our perceptions of the contemporary world. Viewer interaction determines the sequencing - a user can follow one story or link to others - designed so that each encounter provides a unique experience.

Image: a work by Joyce Rudinsky

Opening Thursday 10 April, 6-8pm

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Centre for Contemporary Photography
205 Johnston St
Fitzroy Vic 3065
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