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9/5/2002

Five exhibitions

Centre for Contemporary Photography - CCP, Fitzroy

Solid Estate
Krasevac, Valdman & Gray
Gallery 1

Solid Estate features sound recordings and stereoscopic images from an unused car park: the underground storage area of a Collingwood housing estate. The area is filled with the remnants of past tenants and workers. The resulting collaboration between three local artists uses found debris and detritus to construct "crude mechanisms for the creation of sound that utilise rubbish as their raw material". On entering the exhibition, the viewer is met simply by a collection of tripods set at varying heights and angles each carrying a stereoscopic viewer and set of headphones. The work is experienced through personal headphones and 3D slide viewers.

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Skin Club
Linda Erceg
Gallery 2

Skin Club explores the fantasy of the CG (computer generated) human through 'photorealistic' nude male and female models. The animated characters perform as interactive storytellers, sharing their experiences of sexual encounters. The viewer is implicated in the experience: as friend, as therapist, as self-help group member. The intimate stories invite voyeurism and bring into question the pornographic culture that surrounds technofetish. As the catalogue states, "the bodies Erceg has modelled deliberately diverge from the ideal forms normally associated with both computer generated animations and the interactive pornographic sites on-line. Her models lean towards the naked rather than the nude, as if reasserting the reality of the scenario in the fiction".

Produced with the assistance of Film Victoria's Digital Media Fund.

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Play With Me
Van Sowerwine
Helen Macpherson Smith Project Space

"I have your child here. With me. You think its yours. You think its 'you'. But it's here with me, and it isn't you It's the biomorph that cares nada for your Wiggles CD, Ikea couch and Hyundai child-proof locks." Philip Brophy, 2002

Enter a child's cubbyhouse and sit down. A small girl appears. Play With Me is an interactive installation that uses stop-motion animation and sound to create an uncertain reality. Events quickly escalate and a terrible scene unfolds. Play with me at your own risk.

Animation: Van Sowerwine, Isobel Knowles
Sound: Cornel Wilczek, Phillip Pietruschka
Produced with the assistance of Film Victoria's Digital Media Fund.


Dates May 10 - June 08 . 2002

Opening Thursday May 16, 5:30-7:30pm

Hours Wednesday - Saturday, 11am - 5pm

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Insert Image Here
Chantal Faust, Brad Haylock, Sanja Pahoki and Ali McCann
Curated by Rebecca Chew and Tristian Koenig
Offsite Project

Insert Image Here brings together the work of four emerging Melbourne-based artists in public tram interiors. Working with photo-based media, the artists share a collective concern with the self-reflexive possibilities of visual imagery. Insert Image Here is an off-site project for the Centre for Contemporary Photography in association with the Next Wave Festival, sponsored by the City of Yarra and Yarra Trams.
VENUE Tram routes 48 (North Balwyn - City) and 109 (Mont Albert - City - Port Melbourne). DATES Monday 13th May to Sunday 26th May 2002

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Guest House
Uninvited Guests
e-Media

'Can you tell me about a room?' 'What happened there?' Guest House is based on a performance project by UK/German company Uninvited Guests (http://www.uninvited-guests.net) exploring the interface between digital media and live presence. The performance takes the audience on a tour of an 'impossible building' composed of rooms and events drawn from other peoples' memories (based on a series of interviews with friends and strangers). The interactive Guest House imagines the interviewees' rooms brought together in a virtual structure, the form of which alludes both to computer gaming and an architectural 'walk-through'. Virtual reality modelling software allows the 'player' to explore the computer-generated 3D environments, producing their own edits and cuts between rooms - recasting a public performance event as an intimate experience in the hands of the user.
The spectator becomes a player in the work, weaving their own narrative threads through the spaces the company have visualised.

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

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Other local exhibition of interest:

Two Tibets - The Forgotten Provinces of Amdo & Kham
Photography exhibition by Matt Darby and Rohan Young
Dates: 7 - 18 May 2002
Exhibition opening: 7th May 6:00-8:00pm

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45 Flinders Lane Melbourne
ph: 9650 0589

Centre for Contemporary Photography
205 Johnston St
Fitzroy Vic 3065
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