Nikon Summer Salon
dal 2/2/2002 al 23/2/2002
Segnalato da
2/2/2002
Nikon Summer Salon
Centre for Contemporary Photography - CCP, Fitzroy
Gallery One & Two. Celebrating the latest developments in photo-based practice, the Salon is an annual national event, now in its ninth year. The Salon's dynamic mix of styles, subjects and mediums recommends it as one of Australia's most significant and well-renowned photographic award exhibitions.
Featuring recent works by over 250 photo-based artists from across
the country, the Summer Salon is testament to the ongoing popularity
and diversity of contemporary photographic practice. The Salon's
dynamic mix of styles, subjects and mediums recommends it as one of
Australia's most significant and well-renowned photographic award
exhibitions.
Celebrating the latest developments in photo-based practice, the
Salon is an annual national event, now in its ninth year. An
open-entry exhibition and competition, the Salon is supported by
leaders in the photographic industry. Sponsors award over $3800 worth
of prizes on the opening night to the best entries in nine categories.
In 2002, the Nikon Summer Salon presents a unique catalogue of work in
analogue and digital photography, video installation, computer
interactives, and post-photographic mediums. Incorporating a
diversity of techniques and themes, the Salon attracts entries from a
broad range of artists, from young and emerging practitioners to
students, amateurs, and professionals.
Judges: Felicity Allen (Arts Writer, Herald-Sun); Darren Sylvester (Artist);
Ross Gibson (Creative Director, Australian Centre for the Moving Image).
To be opened by Julie Copeland (Presenter, Radio National).
Rebecca Ann Hobbs. Suck Roar
Helen Macpherson Smith Project Space
As modernity matures, once strict genres and disciplines bloom into
ubiquitous and hybridised micro-scapes. Strangely, as these terrains
merge and blur, animals assume the function of cultural barometers,
mapping the changing nature of both eastern and western cultural
values. From 'mockumentary' filmmaker Christopher Guest's BEST IN
SHOW (2001) to more sober documentary studies such as MICROCOSMOS
(1996) to the bio-ethical and scientiific debates of Peter Singer and
Stephen Jay Gould, animals provide a complex philosophical vehicle
through which identity and culture are regularly contested Rebecca
Ann Hobbs' SUCK ROAR melds portraiture and narrative to produce a
series of images that tease and stretch definitional boundaries. Each
image features the artist variously interacting with animals of
contrasting design. These photoscapes combine fiction (collective)
and fantasy (personal), femininity and ferocity, wetness and hunger,
fear and affinity. In each tableaux, Hobbs invites the viewer to ride
a range of humorous and thought-provoking tropes (with thanks to
Larissa Hjorth).
Zoe Beloff. Beyond
e-Media Gallery
New York filmmaker and digital artist, Zoe Beloff (www.zoebeloff.com)
presents BEYOND, a mysterious interactive film with a playful spirit
of philosophical inquiry which explores the paradoxes of technology,
desire and the paranormal posed since the birth of mechanical
reproduction; the phonograph severing the voice from the body,
photography capturing the soul and cinema resurrecting the dead. For
Beloff, film and photography articulate the 'dream life' of
technology, 'a parallel world of phantasmal doubles' in which the
subject can be transported, or frozen, within another time and place.
Beyond maps a kind of mental geography using panoramas of abandoned
buildings and empty landscapes, interspersed with cinema footage and
home movies retrieved from flea markets, in order to get beneath the
skin of the everyday.
A part of the 24-7 Digital Art Program. Curated by Daniel Palmer and
supported by Film Victoria.
Image: Rebecca Ann Hobbs. from Suck Roar. 2001 Type C print.
Centre for Contemporary Photography
205 Johnston St Fitzroy Vic 3065 t. +613-9417-1549
Gallery hours: Wednesday - Saturday 11am - 5pm