Fluorescent
dal 13/2/2004 al 18/3/2004
Segnalato da
13/2/2004
Fluorescent
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
The latest creation from sound artist Philip Brophy, pays homage to the androgynous, multi-sexual Glam aesthetic with a mock music installation. Fluorescent is a multi-screen video mixed in surround-sound, which highlights the hyperbolic performative aspects of the narcissistic video-clip, with Brophy inventing himself as a luridly reconstituted being vibrating with Glam's essential fakeness and plasticity.
"Love to ride Dana Scully - take some photos-make some money
Disco is magnificent; Barry White for president - call me -
Fluorescent"
Forget David Bowie, Gary Glitter and T-Rex, the era of manufactured
Glam rock comes to the Art Gallery of New South Wales from February 14.
FLUORESCENT, the latest creation from sound artist Philip Brophy, pays
homage to the androgynous, multi-sexual Glam aesthetic with a mock
music installation.
FLUORESCENT is a multi-screen video mixed in surround-sound, which
highlights the hyperbolic performative aspects of the narcissistic
video-clip, with Brophy inventing himself as a luridly reconstituted
being vibrating with Glam's essential fakeness and plasticity.
His performance portrays a transmogrified sexual monster, roaming and
prancing across a videosonic platform, energized by a pulsating 'fat'
sound seething with a hunger for the bright, the shiny and the loud.
The Gallery's contemporary project space is turned into virtual stage
where the audience is bombarded with imagery and music, synchronized to
Brophy's movements as he struts across 3 giant screens singing lyrics
that exemplify Glam rock's tensile, self-invented, volatile and
restless nature.
FLUORESCENT is part of the larger music project by Brophy, which has
typified much of his musical interests and critical writing (Hope You
Die Before I Get Old, catalogue essay for the exhibition Hype; Pale
Glitter - Fat Sound, catalogue essay for the exhibition None More
Blacker). In Brophy's thesis, Glam is the shining black hole of Rock
'n' Roll's grotesque theatricality.
The idea for making a mock video clip came after Brophy produced and
directed Give me Liberty for the band Honeysmack. Having been a
legitimate record producer gave rise to the simple pondering: in an era
in which we strive for the 'real', why not produce a video for a wholly
fake 'recording artist'.
PHILIP BROPHY --FLUORESCENT
Artist Talk
Contemporary Projects Space, Lower Level 2
2pm February 14 2004
ON VIEW
February 14 until March 18, 2004
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