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14/5/2003

Four exhibitions

Centre for Contemporary Photography - CCP, Fitzroy

ALEX KERSHAW
Geodetic Monuments
(Gallery 1)

Geodetic Monuments presents a series of images and video sequences based on the construction of survey markings by the NSW Land and Property Information Service. These structures are used by surveyors to determine, map and fix, locking all air and land into a vast lattice. The project originates from an ongoing interest in the exchange between individuals and their environment, how we mark via the monument and how the monument marks us. They are a consequence of our thoughts projected onto the land fusing the interiority of thought with the exteriority of matter. Geodetic Monuments is a thinking on the relationship between the idea of survey, the materiality of the survey marker itself and the possible histories that develop as a result of it.

ANGELA BLAKELY
Keep passing the open windows
(Gallery 2)

I am involved with eight mothers whose children have suicided. We worked collaboratively, each of these women placing their trust in me, to make their children less invisible. In a society where grief is hidden and suicide is still sometimes taboo, these mothers need to be able to talk openly about their children. I have recorded our conversations and collected images of each of the children and of the mothers. I have documented objects that remain precious to them, imbued with memories of that child and an earlier time. The 'Grave Sites' mark the places where the children rest. They are sites of rituals, sadness and guilt. In some cases a meeting place for the family once again. (Angela Blakely)

PAUL BATT
Untitled Spaces
(Project Space)

The Untitled Spaces series presents a photographic exploration of spaces that relate to art practice, their evolution and the way they adapt to different pressures and requirements. The images are of interior spaces both populated and unpopulated and forms part of an ongoing critical exploration into the notions of art and artists, particularly the apparatuses and institutions upon which they depend and are defined, whether for display, sale, performance or tuition.

SIMON BIGGS
Babel
(e-Media)

A net.art work exploring the taxonomy of knowledge contained within libraries and the Internet, Babel is a site specific work for a 'non-site' information space. In the work, the Dewey Decimal numbering system is visualised in a three dimensional multi-user space, and becomes a navigation technique. The structure of the library is thus re-mapped into the hyper-spatial. Australian-born, British-based artist Simon Biggs has a long practice centred around issues concerning identity and reality as social constructs. In this work, the multiple 3D views of the abstract data-space generated by each viewer are montaged together into a single shared image, where the actions of any one viewer affects what all the others view.

Image: a work by ALEX KERSHAW

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