Humid
dal 10/10/2001 al 25/11/2001
Segnalato da
Tacita Dean
Kate Daw
Ann Hamilton
AK Dolven
Pipilotti Rist
Mariele Neudecker
Christine Borland
Clara Ursitti
Nina Saunders
10/10/2001
Humid
ACCA Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Victoria
An international exhibition that explores the feminine sublime, featuring works by artists Tacita Dean, Kate Daw, Ann Hamilton, AK Dolven, Pipilotti Rist, Mariele Neudecker, Christine Borland, Clara Ursitti and Nina Saunders. Melbourne Festival projects -Humid Stacked Hotel.
Melbourne Festival projects -Humid Stacked Hotel
ACCA is hosting two major Melbourne Festival installations, with leading
international artists presenting a number of projects that have been
developed specifically for Melbourne.
HUMID - an international exhibition that explores the feminine sublime,
featuring works by artists Tacita Dean, Kate Daw, Ann Hamilton, AK
Dolven, Pipilotti Rist, Mariele Neudecker, Christine Borland, Clara Ursitti
and Nina Saunders.
HUMID - as an attitude rather than a weather condition - refers to the
sometimes petulant, sultry, even sexy, feminine unconscious and its
physical manifestations. Humid is hot, sweaty, oppressive, uncomfortable,
but also languid, sensual and tropical. Humid is a state of mind, a state of
being. Pleasure and danger, passion and petulance collide as Humid
evokes the seductive and potentially destructive power of femininity.
Emerging British artists Adam Dade and Sonya Hanney will create
Stacked Hotel, a video and sculptural installation using the entire contents
of a hotel room.
Under the stealth of night and behind closed doors, Sonya and Adam
dismantle the contents of a hotel room and stack them into a sculptural
form. Having captured the process on video, the artists return the fittings to
their original position. Hanney and Dade's works deal with impromptu
sculptural solutions and comment upon the need to reorganise space into
new comfort zones.
ACCA's purpose is to stimulate, identify, articulate new ideas
about current visual culture and to position itself as one of
Australia's key contemporary art organisations. ACCA acts as a
site of exploration and discovery where artists, their work and the
public meet.
Image: Sonya Hanney and Adam Dade, Stacked Hotel
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