Centre for Contemporary Photography - CCP
Fitzroy
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Five exhibitions
dal 30/5/2012 al 14/7/2012
wed-fri 11am-6pm, sat-sun 12-5pm

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30/5/2012

Five exhibitions

Centre for Contemporary Photography - CCP, Fitzroy

Geoff Robinson features his projcet at the junction of twelve locations on Suomenlinna. Lost & Found features Family Photos Swept Away by the 3.11 East Japan Tsunami. 'Hair in the Gate, a biograph' is the solo show by Eliza Hutchison. Julie Davies & Alex Rizkalla feature their project 'Temoin Oculaire: Shelter or Prison: a meditation on incarceration and madness'. Charlie Sofo features his new video for CCP's Night Projection Window.


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Geoff Robinson
At the junction of twelve locations on Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland, November 2011 to February 2012

Locations: 1. Small harbour, Susisaari 2. Fortress wall near Pipers Park, Susisaari 3. Bird house near Ehrensvards tomb, Susisaari 4. Boat yard near Dry Dock, Susisaari 5. Fortress tunnel, Kustaanmiekka 6. Dry Dock, Susisaari 7. Flagposts, Iso Mustasaari 8. Kings Gate Quay, Kustaanmiekka 9. Bird feeders near library, Iso Mustasaari 10. Loch at Dry Dock, Susisaari 11. Rear of Ehrensvards tomb, Susisaari 12. Vesikko submarine, Susisaari.

From late 2011 through to early 2012 Geoff Robinson produced a sound-mapping project on Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland. The project entailed recording sonic occurrences on the island emphasising the transition of weather conditions during this period. The sound locations have been mapped and overlaid to scale throughout gallery one and the adjacent rooms at CCP. Video footage of the locations with their respective sounds accompanies the work. A sound performance will be held on Saturday 14 July at 1pm.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and the Helsinki International Artist Programme.

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Lost & Found:
Family Photos Swept Away by the 3.11 East Japan Tsunami

Lost & Found is a profoundly moving exhibition of collected photographs recovered from the devastation following the earthquake and tsunami and subsequent nuclear catastrophe that took place in the Tohoku region in 2011.

The tsunami not only swept the harbour away, but also houses, cars, trains; and many people lost their lives. Although no longer in the media, people in this region are still in great need. These photographs remind us of their presence and make us aware of their silent voices. The exhibition also gives us an opportunity to think about the relationship people have with their photographs.

The Lost & Found project is attempting to return pictures from the collection to their owners by cleaning, cataloguing and creating a digital database of the photographs. Many images were too badly damaged and can not be returned; rather than discard them, the project team decided to exhibit the imagery and give people the opportunity to see these photographs in the belief that they carry powerful messages.

This project was initiated by Munemasa Takahashi and Hiroshi Hatate in Japan and Kristian Haggblom from Wallflower Photomedia Gallery in Australia. Funds raised will go directly to the people of Yamamoto-cho.

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Eliza Hutchison
Hair in the Gate, a biograph

The strange expression Hair in the Gate comes from photography: the gate is the place of the opening between the plane of the film and the light of the world. As the film passes through the gate, detached celluloid fragments can ruin the integrity of the shot. With photography, professionals can check the gate for hair, but with human memory, nobody can verify your gate is clean. On the contrary: human beings are those beings whose gates are irrevocably dirty. Between memory and experience, there are only the ruinations of false impression and the distortions of recovery. Moreover, some of the most intense moments of our lives now come from and are reflected back from television, film, photography, magazines, email and the internet: the death of Ayrton Senna in a tragic crash; the emphatic gestures of a witness at the trial of Phil Spector for murder; the mutilated, blood-stained body of Sharon Tate. Newly discovered distant memories, flickering up from unremembered childhoods, are revivified in the present as a Frankenstein's monster of disparate elements, related only by the fact that they are harboured by you, in you, as you.

An edited excerpt from the catalogue essay Many mirrorical returns; or, self-portrait in a convex medium by Justin Clemens

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Julie Davies & Alex Rizkalla
Temoin Oculaire: Shelter or Prison: a meditation on incarceration and madness

A departure point for this project is the Menagerie at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. The garden was created in 1626, by Gui de la Brosse for Louis Xlll, initially as the royal medicinal herb garden, and the Menagerie was added in 1820. This zoo is maintained as an historic display, sadly it still holds a number of animals in the original pavilions and, as we observed and recorded, they display abnormal behaviours such as repetitive, irrational actions reflecting the unnatural conditions of their existence.

At the same time we also made the chance discovery of the vinyl release of Antonin Artaud's Pour en finir avec le jugement de dieu [To Have Done with the Judgement of God], a radio play and his last work. The performance, recorded in November 1947, was described as the utterances of a madman and remained banned until 1973 when it was broadcast on France-Culture. For nine years until his release in 1946 Artaud would see nothing but the inside walls of asylums, he suffered physically and mentally with what he called his 'mental erosion'.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

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Charlie Sofo
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Using the form of an advertisement, I've made a new video for CCP's Night Projection Window. Delving in to the offices of CCP I've gathered objects and taken them back to the studio. Advertisement is a video that seeks to describe these objects in the same manner as SALE OF THE CENTURY, although what exactly I'm trying to advertise I'm not completely sure.

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Centre for Contemporary Photography
404 George St, Fitzroy - Victoria 3065, Australia
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