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10/4/2002

Four exhibitions

Centre for Contemporary Photography - CCP, Fitzroy

Patrick Pound. THE MEMORY ROOM
Gallery One

The memory room is the bedroom of a character who while trying to explain the world has been reduced to collecting it. The evidence is pasted in a vast array of scrapbooks and albums. Their pages are torn out and pinned to the walls in a manic flow chart of connections from giant vegetables to miniature Tudor villages, from kit set homes to model air planes. The scrapbooks are themselves a model of the world. There are snaps of the rooms of Kabakov, Nan Goldin, Edward Weston, Anne Frank and Captain Cook. There are postcards of Marie Antoinette's fake dairy and photos of fictional islands. The room operates as an archive and a listing device. While the list seems endless, the connections, literally, are. This strange sorting machine has everything from a photo album with braille captions to a collection of twenty six brown things.

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Sophia Szilagyi. THE WINDOW
Gallery Two

Cinema is used as a vehicle for commentary and influence. With this in mind, Sophia Szilagyi examines the process of fear using a domestic motif as a base for paranoia. Informed by cinema theory and the use of cinematic devices, the artist has created her own sensory experience of fear. Utilising video and sound projection, The Window addresses the way cultural identity is shaped with regard to fear, playing with the psychological constructs used in the suspense thriller genre and exploring the sensory effect of cinema. Using the house as a motif, Szilagyi questions the blurring between private and public space, inside and outside, herself and the unknown, beauty and evil, reality and fiction. It is in the suggestion of a link between reality and theatrical fiction that fear is created.

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Megan Ponsford. ASPIC
Helen Macpherson Smith Project Space

Emptiness, Death, Surface, Artifice.
Aspic consists of a series of images taken in an up-market nursing home and presented as small lightboxes in a darkened room. Despite the opulence and beauty on display, despite the grandeur and luxury, a sterile, uneasy silence pervades the works. There is no evidence of these facilities being used, no sign indeed of any human habitation. All is not as it would seem - objects that should be inviting resonate with menace and a hint of melancholy. Seductive yet desolate, frozen in a perpetual present, these views from a sumptuous waiting room to the after-life, play with photography's own intrinsic nature.

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Mark Amerika. FILMTEXT
e-Media Gallery

The FILMTEXT project is Mark Amerika's vision of the writer-cum-net artist. Practicing his home-grown theory of 'surf-sample-manipulate', wherein the artist surfs the culture for useful data, samples it, and then remixes it for his own pseudo-autobiographical uses, Amerika has upped the ante with FILMTEXT by bringing in a selective library of images captured in both Hawaii and Japan. Created in the tradition of filmmakers such as Vertov, Godard and Marker, the online version of FILMTEXT attempts to translate cinematic language into more multi-linear navigational forms associated with emergent new media genres such as net art, hypertext, and motion graphic pictures.

Interface design choreographed in collaboration with Flash artist John Vega; interactive sound loops and mp3 concept album created in collaboration with the sound composers Twine; 'cinescripture.1' experimental artist ebook made in collaboration with book designer Jeff Williams. Mark Amerika (http://www.markamerika.com) is a Visiting Fellow in the School of Applied Communication at RMIT.

A part of the 24-7 Digital Art Program. Curated by Daniel Palmer and supported by Film Victoria.

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Opening. Thursday April 11, 6-8pm

Gallery hours. Wednesday - Saturday 11am - 5pm

Centre for Contemporary Photography
205 Johnston St
Fitzroy Vic 3065
+613-9417-1549
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