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22 JUNE - 28 JULY 2007 : Opening 6pm 22 JUNE
Since its development in the early years of the last century, the
car has played a pivotal role in Australian cultural life, becoming
a symbol of status and identity. Where travel and communications
have been restricted by the tyranny of distance, the car has provided
freedom. SUPERCHARGED...the car in contemporary culture brings together
the work of twelve artists referencing the car’s iconic status
in Australian life from many different points of view. Driving a
vehicle that crosses social boundaries, the SUPERCHARGED artists
explore aesthetics, design, memory, sex, death and the impact of
the car on the environment.
image: Martin Mischkulnig
From the Hatchback Heroes series:
Yusef And Friends 2004 Lambda Print 80 x 80cm
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22 JUNE - 28 JULY 2007 : Opening 6pm
Friday 22 JUNE
Kevin Todd’s computer-generated works rely on ambiguity and
expression to evoke a sense of intrigue and discomfort with (in)
the mathematic/technical format of the medium. However, there is
no false dichotomy in the works and the images evoke that which
requires the sensitivity to understand the limits of rationalism.
www.toddartist.com
image:with(in), Series #2
digital prints, laminated glass
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THE BOX SET: 22 JUNE - 28 JULY 2007
The sculptural installation SIEGE – In the trenches,
continues an inquiry into Richardson’s childhood reconstructing
his past in an act of self-psychoanalysis. The surviving memories
and objects retained in adult life are now relics and signifiers
the artist uses to decode himself and to understand the collective
cultural memory he operates in
image:
SEIGE (installation detail) 2006
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THE MONITOR: 22 JUNE - 28 JULY 2007
Using multiple cameras as a process to record both fact and fiction,
Murphy placed a video camera into the hands of her subjects - her
90 year old grandfather and 86 year old grandmother. As they move
through the rooms of the house they have occupied together for 70
years, passing the recording camera to each other, Murphy too focuses
her camera (an observational camera) on the interaction that occurs
between the two subjects.
The fragile subjects carry this fragile object, the video camera.
Leaving Together speaks of the process of recording moments of family
history, fragility of documentation, the need and hope of remembrance,
and the passing of time within life.
www.katemurphy.com.au/
image:
Leaving Together
video still
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3 AUGUST - 8 SEPTEMBER 2007 :
Opening midday Saturday 11 August
24HR Art devised an artist camp in collaboration with Injalak Arts
and Crafts near Gunbalanya in Western Arnhem Land. The two week
camp included five interstate artists and followed in the long tradition
of explorative field trips by artists seeking inspiration from the
unique landscapes and cultures of the Northern Territory. The late
Colin Jack-Hinton, the inaugural Director of the MAGNT, was a driving
force in today’s legacy of artist camps in the NT, 24HR Art
maintains this tradition of intercultural exchange between Indigenous
and non-Indigenous artists of Australia.
Click here to read the catalogue essay about Culture Trackers by Ashley Crawford
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3 AUGUST - 8 SEPTEMBER 2007
Curated by Binghui Huangfu.
As part of an ongoing series of Lee’s TOKI/Cyborg project,
BOOM BOOM focuses on capturing the animation process of constructing
four perfect/desirable parts of the TOKI’s body. The project
(re) presents and explores the domains of psychoanalysis, classicism,
Asian manga/anime, cinema, music, politics, ethnology, mathematics,
technology, plastic surgery, genetics, cybernetics, cultural studies,
feminism, eroticism and aesthetics.
www.hyerimlee.com
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THE BOX SET:3 AUGUST - 8 SEPTEMBER
2007
Young Indigenous photographers living in the remote community of
Timber Creek, weilding a camera, some for the first time, explore
their immediate physical and social environment.
Image by Jake Blitner
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THE MONITOR :3 AUGUST - 8 SEPTEMBER
2007
New work from local video and sound artist Zeb Olsen. This set of
‘screen tests’ echoes experimental films of the sixties
and seventies. The subjects, lighting and slow speed of the work
create an uneasy quality and a tangible beauty
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14 SEPTEMBER-20 OCTOBER 2007
On the surface, the difference between Australia’s
two Territories could not be greater. The Northern Territory’s
steaming tropical climate nurtures an open-air lifestyle that is
all but foreign in the semi-alpine continental climate of Capital
Territory. Canberra’s ‘utopian’ city plan and
refined sense of socio-political order provides a stark contrast
to Darwin’s chaotic optimism on the edge of Australia’s
wildest frontier. Territorial brings artists based in the ACT and
NT together whose work might offer insights into the mind-sets of
internal territory, autonomous territory, dark territory, peripheral
territory and new territory.
image:
Catriona Stanton
Field 2007
bamboo toothpicks, beeswax, tarlatan
Click here to read the catalogue essay about Territorial
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14 SEPTEMBER-20 OCTOBER 2007
This exhibition reflects many of the issues
affecting changes in Chinese culture, but also demonstrates the
way Chinese artists are projecting themselves into a world community.
We are aware that China is going through a period of rapid social,
economical, political and cultural change. These video artists have
been at the forefront of documenting, critiquing and instrumenting
those changes.
image:Wang Jianwei
Ceremony
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SCREENING ROOM: 14 SEPTEMBER-20 OCTOBER 2007
Jump Cut (to Darwin), a Green Papaya project, surveys
25 emerging Filipino artists working in Manila. Many of the video
works respond to everyday life in this vast megalopolis of 16 million
people. With a population nearing that of Australia, many struggle
against a backdrop of national disarray with their indomitable spirit
feeding on a national aspiration that seems to becoming increasingly
distant.
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THE BOX SET : 14 SEPTEMBER-20 OCTOBER 2007
Transient populations inhabit buildings on the peripheries. They
participate in the immediate culture in tempered ways, uncommitted
to a nest, ready to pack and leave. Every city has them, but Darwin,
being smaller, is impacted by this phenomenon significantly. The
ideal – Darwin, as Tropical Utopia – is in question.
Fiona Morrison’s work explores the meeting of reality and
perception within this human landscape.
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THE MONITOR: 14 SEPTEMBER-20 OCTOBER 2007
A visually telling story of a husband, a wife, and a labour hand,
who choose to remain living in a simmering state of tension on an
isolated property in the Northern Territory.
image:
Something Deciduous video still
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image:
Katie Saunders, "Shiny happy busy"digital short
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