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Three exhibitions
dal 10/2/2004 al 21/3/2004
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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.


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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

Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
Perth Cultural Centre, 51 James St Northbridge
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