Two solo shows
dal 29/6/2007 al 10/8/2007
Segnalato da
29/6/2007
Two solo shows
MIC Toi Rerehiko, Auckland
The artists use film as a conceptual vehicle for exploring the language of gesture, emotion and memory through a wide range of forms including dance, performance, music and re-enactments of seminal moments in the histories of rock, art and film. On view a multiple-screen installation of a selection of Australian Gina Tornatore's films and a newly commissioned work by London artist-duo Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard as part of their ongoing "Precious Little" series. Curated by Louise Garrett.
Gina Tornatore / Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard
Curated by: Louise Garrett
Curator Louise Garrett presents two solo exhibitions: The insuperable phenomena of hidden behaviour by London-based Australian artist Gina Tornatore and Precious Little by London artist-duo Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard.
The artists use film as a conceptual vehicle for exploring the language of gesture, emotion and memory through a wide range of forms including dance, performance, music and re-enactments of seminal moments in the histories of rock, art and film. The exhibition projects at MIC Toi Rerehiko are designed as broad introductions to the artists' practice, featuring a multiple-screen installation of a selection of Tornatore's films made over the past eight years, and a newly commissioned work by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard as part of their ongoing Precious Little series.
Gina Tornatore works primarily with film – super 8mm and 16mm, photography and video – as an analysis of time and duration through choreographed performance and movement within specific locations and contexts. She creates set pieces or narrative fragments from either performances or actions staged for the camera, or by using appropriated film footage which is manipulated manually on an optical printer and edited by hand on a 16mm steenbeck. With intricate editing techniques and a judicious use of sound, the resulting films employ repetition, slow motion, play back, mirroring and physical action to produce intense psychological moments. Obsessive formal control is punctured by the emotional or physical tension of the films' protagonists.
"The insuperable phenomena of hidden behaviour" presents an installation of individual films on multiple screens as a choreographed sequence of fragments to produce an evocative, complex interplay of gesture, narrative, image and sound.
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard met and began working collaboratively in 1993. Their practice is characterised by a process-led and interdisciplinary approach to art, music and 'liveness'. They are pioneers of the recent trend exploring re-enactment as an artistic genre, and have produced several major live performances and videos reconstructing seminal moments in rock and art culture. Their re-enactments of live concerts include Rock 'N' Roll Suicide (1998), in which David Bowie's legendary 'farewell' performance as Ziggy Stardust was restaged at the ICA in London exactly 25 years after the event, and File under sacred music (2003), which recreated the concert and subsequent bootleg video of an infamous performance by The Cramps for the patients at Napa Mental Institute, California.
They have also turned to early conceptual video works for inspiration, creating reconstructions of early works by Vito Acconci and Bruce Nauman filtered through the aesthetic and style of contemporary urban music videos. Their most recent work was the major live performance and installation Silent Sound, produced for the inaugural programme of a major new gallery in Liverpool at the 2006 Liverpool Biennial. The work was an elaborate restaging inspired by a public séance conducted by the Davenport Brothers at St. George's Hall, Liverpool in 1865.
"Precious Little" is a series of films of edited interviews of young people talking about love and loss. Participants are asked about swapping homemade music compilation tapes with friends and lovers as a trigger for talking about relationships through a shared love of music. The resulting frieze of personal portraits and stories channels Iain & Jane's continued engagement with the 'soundtrack underpinning contemporary life'. Previous incarnations of Precious Little include Fucked up lover at the Hobbypop Museum in Dusseldorf (2001), Everybody else is wrong at Pavilion Projects in Montreal, Canada (2004) and Anyone else isn't you at The Hospital in London (2005). The new film made for MIC Toi Rerehiko will be the fourth in the series.
Opening: Saturday 30 June 2007, 6-8pm
MIC Toi Rerehiko
321 Karangahape Road - Auckland
Opening hours: Tuesday-Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday 11am-4pm