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7/11/2002

Afloat

24HR Art, Darwin

a video installation by Camilla Lawson

'Afloat', a multi-media installation by Darwin-based artist Camilla Lawson, is an experiential work that plays with the sensibility of 'going to the movies' and connects to the original purpose of 24Hr Art's premises as a cinema house.

In this exhibition and installation seductive sculptural forms invite the audience to linger, touch, sit, drape, lie down, and watch TV screens and video projections. The sculptures are at once both landscapes and extensions of the body. They combine with the video works to create a virtual landscape in which the audience is caught between a heightened awareness of their physical self and the imaginative space of a movie. This opposition creates an unease, which is used as a framework to build a complex narrative. The narrative references notions of 'body and landscape': the body as a metaphor for the land, the body as a site, the body as an agency to experience the elements. In so doing the work explores a desire to connect to 'place'.

The unfolding narrative draws on imagery from the artist's Anglo-Australian heritage of migration and settlement. The work is played out in the context of Darwin and hinterland, the Arafura Sea, and distant seas, the Tasman Sea and North Sea.

Opening Friday 8 November at 6pm
by Leon Marvell, Art Theory Lecturer NTU

Gallery viewing hours are Wed - Fri 10am - 6pm with extended evening hours on Friday 12 ­ 8pm Sat 10 am - 2pm or by appointment.

For more info contact Cath Bowdler or Fiona Cocks Ph (08) 89815368 24HR Art is financially assisted by the NT Government through the Department of the Arts and Museums and the Australia Council, the Federal Government's arts funding and advisory body

24HR Art, Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art, Vimy Lane, Parap, Darwin.

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