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9/9/2003

Four exhibitions

Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts PICA, Perth

Geoff Kleem

A deft interplay of object and image forms has particularly marked Kleem's recent exhibitions. Kleem's objects often manifest some form of collusion between contemporary industrial design and minimalist opacity, both revelling in and gently mocking aesthetics of consumerist functionality. His photographs effectively double these acts of emphatic yet consistently contingent spatial reference. And it's in this conundrum that they catch us pondering just what values underpin our constructed world.

Free Opening: Wednesday September 10, 6pm
Exhibiting: September 11 - October 19, 2003
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts

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Blinded by the Light
Lily Hibberd (VIC)

Blinded by the Light chronicles cinematic encounters with light, The exhibition recreates scenes from various films in which the character/characters are confronted by a bright, white light, in situations such as near-death experiences, hallucinogenic experiments, and alien/ghostly encounters. In the photographic recreation of the films referenced, only two actors have been used, so that their divergent plots are strangely reconfigured in two characters' experience.

Free Opening: Wednesday September 10, 6pm
Exhibiting: September 11 - October 19, 2003
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts

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Retrocognition
Glen Stewart
video-based installation

In this installation, Stewart explores the illusory qualities of digital technologies and projection and the possibility of transmitting an aura of the supernatural. Retrocognition refers to a kind of clairvoyance popularised in the 18th and 19th centuries where an individual might spontaneously experience past events via psychic means. How can technology allow us to intervene in the past, to repeat, alter, or offer a state of virtual retrtocognition?

Free Opening: Wednesday September 10, 6pm
Exhibiting: September 11 - October 19, 2003
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts

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Memesis
Mark Cypher
interactive video and sound installation

In this interactive installation, Cypher uses the proximity of a viewer's body to the projected image of a computer-generated landscape, to explore ideas of memory, perception, imagination and desire. As the user walks into the installation, their point of view within the projected landscape is diminshed, and becomes smaller on approaching the screen. Memesis attempts to deal with the "blindness at the heart of seeing" so prevalent within Australian Cultural relations. The visual elusiveness of Memesis, denies the gaze its ability to make what it sees property, and explores the paradox embodied in notions of experiencing nature.

Free Opening: Wednesday September 10, 6pm
Exhibiting: September 11 - October 19, 2003

Image: a work by Lily Hibberd

Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
1 James Street
Perth

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