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20/11/2002

Exhibitions

Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

Opening Thursday November 21, 6-8pm
Gallery hours. Wednesday - Saturday 11am - 5pm


Ian Haig
Brain Tumour Helmet with Microwaves

Gallery 1

Your body is mutating and transforming.

Mobile phones, satellite communications, radio waves, television transmissions, wireless networksÅ  you are immersed in electromagnetic fields and microwave energy on a daily basis, you are soaking in it.

Brain Tumour Helmets With Microwaves explores the idea of contemporary body modification and post-human body mutation via brain tumours, as a result of the everyday high exposure to microwave and electromagnetic technologies.


Please use at own risk.
Installation Stills
Curated by Niki Vouis
Gallery 2

Mehmet Adil, Craige Andrae, Dylan Everett, Elizabeth Fotiadis, Helen Fuller, Agnieszka Golda, Anton Hart, Louise Haselton (Melbourne), Julie Henderson, Sarah Minney, Katie Moore, Bronwyn Platten (Aberdeen, Scotland), Massimo Palombo (Melbourne), George Popperwell, Sonja Porcaro, Lee Salomone, Zofia Sleziak, Sam Small, Hossein Valamanesh and Warren Vance.

Installation Stills explores the role of photographic documentation in recent installation works by twenty artists based mainly in South Australia. The exhibition focuses upon the relationships and tensions between photographic and installation processes - investigating the artistic legitimacy of the photographic image in the absence of an original, live installation work. Offering a survey of recent installation practice, this exhibition questions photography's intervention and its subsequent position as a product of artifice. It explores the role of photography in documenting and historicising spatial constructs that have long since dissipated or been removed from memory. In a social and cultural environment where memory and the veracity of the camera image are omnipotently subverted by technology, these works act as testament, chronicle and artefact.


Kathy Bossinakis
Cry
Project Space

Cry is a parody of filmic horror and comedy within a home video framework. Shot in small increments, it takes the form of a video diary which documents the experience of an infant growing into a child. The time-lapsed footage, taken over a 3 year period, is juxtaposed with a second video presenting a comical, highly-styled cat torture and murder scene starring a demented fictional character. Cry presents a concurrence of themes: the body in a state of flux, abject bodily functions, and morality documented within time based media. In the end however rampant fantasies and a sense of absurdity take over, mutating all possibility of rational thought.


Stephen Honegger de_ccp
e-Media Gallery

Stephen Honegger's work explores the tension and collision between real and virtual spaces. In his new site-specific piece, Honegger recreates the gallery spaces of the Centre for Contemporary Photography - using gaming software and photographic texture mapping. The screen depicts a first person perspective of someone breaking into the building and accessing the storage space adjacent to where the work is located in the e-media Gallery. All the while, a strange beeping sound emits from behind the closed door of the storage room - radically confusing our sense of what is real and what is simulation.

Image: a work by Kathy Bossinakis

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2003 Nikon Summer Salon
Entries now open!

CCP is currently calling for entries into the 2003 Nikon Summer Salon, to be held in February. The Nikon Summer Salon is an annual event celebrating the latest developments in contemporary photo-based

art. It is an open-entry exhibition and competition supported by leaders in the photographic industry. The award is open to all artists working in photo-based media, including all types of analogue and digital photography, animation, CD-ROM and other interactive technologies, film/video and works in 3D. Prizes are awarded in several different categories from leaders in the photographic industry. The Salon provides an excellent opportunity to exhibit work in a professional, high-profile context. Thousands of visitors attend the event each year, recommending it as one of the largest and most renowned photographic award exhibitions in Australia. Contact CCP for an entry form, or visit our website.

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