Three exhibitions
dal 10/2/2004 al 21/3/2004
Segnalato da
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
10/2/2004
Three exhibitions
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts PICA, Perth
New Balance, Shaun Gladwell. In this solo exhibition, Gladwell extends his recent work with extreme sports, particularly the practice of skateboarding and BMX riding. Disaster Narratives, Kate McMillan. Disaster Narratives is a multi media installation that draws from various world histories and attempts to locate traces of things that have been covered up and often forgotten. You can give them a better life than I ever could, Martin Smith. This exhibition explores the range of physical and emotional responses that have emerged following the death of Smith's sister, Donna Marie Philp, in 1999.
New Balance
Shaun Gladwell (NSW)
Gladwell's art practice engages subjects ranging from personal
experiences to wider discourse on power, history, contemporary
culture and technology. In this solo exhibition, Gladwell extends his
recent work with extreme sports, particularly the practice of
skateboarding and BMX riding. The video works place emphasis on the
city as a stage for choreographed performances, while objects and
cultural material are transformed and manipulated.
Shaun Gladwell appears courtesy of Sherman Galleries
Presented by PICA as part of The UWA Perth International Arts Festival
Opening: Wednesday February 11, 6pm
Exhibiting: 12 February - 21 March, 2004 (Free Admission)
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Disaster Narratives
Kate McMillan (WA)
Disaster Narratives is a multi media installation that draws from
various world histories and attempts to locate traces of things that
have been covered up and often forgotten. From Mao Zedong's
Underground City to European holiday destinations built on top of the
rubble of war, Disaster Narratives attempts to examine how we choose
to ignore what lies beneath our feet. The work pulls as back to local
histories featuring the former Aboriginal prison and current holiday
destination of Rottnest Island framed by Rachmaninov's symphony of
'The Isle of the Dead', assuring us we are personally prone to the
act on un-remembering.
Rather than offer predictable images of trauma and war, Disaster
Narratives is about the traces of loss and forgetting that litter
human history and about the compulsion towards creating events that
we will ultimately want to forget. This exhibition is the culmination
of two years of research and utilises video, sound and photography.
Presented by PICA as part of The UWA Perth International Arts Festival
Opening: Wednesday February 11, 6pm
Exhibiting: 12 February - 21 March, 2004 (Free Admission)
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You can give them a better life than I ever could
Martin Smith (QLD)
This exhibition explores the range of physical and emotional
responses that have emerged following the death of Smith's sister,
Donna Marie Philp, in 1999. On the anniversary of her death in 2003,
Smith spent a day in his local park, photographing the surrounds. The
resulting images have been sliced together with family photographs of
Donna's life from her first image to her last, creating a positive
and negative images.
In this exhibition, Smith's work, comprising photographs and text,
will be given freely to gallery visitor on the opening night, on the
proviso that they sign their name and provide a brief statement in an
adjacent book. A communal discourse between the images and their new
owners develops that redirects the 'preciousness' of the photograph
from a retinal/commercial context to the conceptual and historical.
At the completion of the exhibition Smith is left solely with the
reproductions and documentation as a memorial to the existence of the
individual and collective artworks.
Presented by PICA as part of The UWA Perth International Arts Festival
Opening: Wednesday February 11, 6pm
Exhibiting: 12 February - 21 March, 2004 (Free Admission)
Image: a work by MartinSmith
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