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Selected Artists:
Peter Alwast
Christopher Bennie
Sarah Buckius & Melanie Manos
Ryszard Dabek
Atanas Djonov
Damir Očko
Christoph Oertli
SJ Ramir
Rachel Scott
Dana Sederowsky
Mai Yamashita & Naoto Kobayashi
All images courtesy of each respective artist.
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d/Art/07screen - curated by Ricardo Felipe d/Art/07screen is d/Lux/MediaArts' survey of new Australian and international experimental single-channel video works. Observation and At the Chauvel Cinema Sydney: The screening will be followed by d/Art's 10 year anniversary celebration. See d/Art/07events for more information. Online Exhibition: |
About
Ricardo Felipe Ricardo Felipe is a freelance book designer, editor and curator based in Sydney. He made the Avalon project, including an exhibition at the Museum of Brisbane and the award-winning book Avalon: Art & Life of an Apartment Building. In 2006 he was the curator of the group show Art Movement: Explorations of Motion and Change at UTS Gallery, Sydney. |
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Click here to view Relics
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Peter Alwast Synopsis: Using CG imagery and found video footage, Relics is a video animation of slow panning over a suburban housing estate being built within a geodesic glass dome. Within this hermetic environment, chrome blobs lay on the ground abstracting the human form with its embedded MRI scans of the artist's body, while also reflecting nearby figures on a swing and fireworks in the distance. Borrowing the visual language of architectural visualisation, games and the Internet, Alwast's video aims to engage ‘personal and collective musings about the gradual integration of constructed ideals into the psyche and body'. |
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Biography: Peter Alwast graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts (First Class Honours) from Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane in 1997. The following year he was awarded a Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship, to complete his Master of Fine Arts at the Parsons School of Design in New York. Since graduation, Peter's work has been shown in 19 group exhibitions in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, New York, Brooklyn and New Jersey. He has also held five solo exhibitions and his work is held in collections in Australia and the USA. Peter works across a range of contemporary media. Back To Top |
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Click here to view The Aliens Back
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Christopher Bennie Synopsis: The Aliens Back is a video of a shirtless man in a domestic setting. In it we see the artist slowly tensing and contorting his back muscles into bizarre and abstract forms. Cropped from just above his shoulders to his lower back, the video displays the artist's torso in a sculptural way. The degree of abstraction created through the muscular contortions warps any relationship to traditional figural beauty. Instead, the shapes that emerge within the close-cropped frame, aim to present the figure as remarkable in its own, somewhat grotesque, right. |
Biography: Christopher Bennie is a New Zealand-born artist currently living and working in Brisbane, Australia. His video artworks present an interpretation of the familiar and everyday, that aim to discover a form of authenticity associated with unmediated and directly felt experience. Bennie studied at the Otago School of Art in Dunedin, New Zealand and the Queensland College of Art in Brisbane, graduating with first class honours in 2002. His work has been exhibited in contemporary art institutions around Australia including +Plus Factors, held at the Australian Centre of Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne in 2006.
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Click here to view Buckius 101
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Author: Sarah Buckius & Melanie Manos, Synopsis: In 101 Ways to Humanize Technology, the ManosBuckius duo interact physically with technological devices by using them to perform unconventional, bizarre and highly non-productive tasks. The work proposes that everyday technologies might be reinterpreted |
in absurd, playful, and strange ways, and that the nature of productivity and function be re-examined. ManosBuckius says: ‘The dynamic is hardly one-sided, however: the objects often indicate the nature and rhythm of our movement and inspire mischievous, albeit highly serious, responses from us.' Biography: The ManosBuckius Cooperative is an artistic team, including Melanie Manos and Sarah Buckius, who perform in specific spaces and with everyday objects to create ‘purposeful purposelessness'. |
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Click here to view Playlist
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Author: Ryszard Dabek Synopsis: Play List was conceived as an exploration of the space between the act of listening and looking, and the ability of sound to feed certain states of mind. A single protagonist repeatedly selects and plays a series of records that bracket short visual digressions that are each proceeded by the title of song (real or imaginary). Each record becomes a prompt for the reveries of the listener. As the piece progresses the act of ‘ playing ' the records gives way to an exercise in video portraiture. |
Biography: Ryszard Dabek is a Sydney-based artist who has exhibited his work both nationally and internationally. In 2004 he completed a MFA at the College of Fine Arts. He currently lectures in the Film & Digital Art Department at Sydney College of the Arts. His practice encompasses a number of forms and mediums including digital image manipulation, video, sound and interactive media. Play List was originally screened in 2006 at Artspace, Sydney as part of Tomorrow, again (curator Scott Donovan). The screening was accompanied by an improvised sound performance by John Encarnacao that used primitive electronics, radio transmissions and a range of filtering devices. |
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Click here to view Postcard
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Author: Atanas Djonov Synopsis: Postcard from Australia is an observational video of commuters walking through a pedestrian tunnel. It is accompanied by a soundtrack of Varshavianka – a Polish song written at the end of 19th century and popular in Russia during the revolutions of 1905 and 1917. Biography: Atanas Djonov was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria in 1972 and has lived in Sydney since 1996. He completed a video production course at |
the College of Journalism and Mass Communication at Sofia University, Bulgaria and in 2002 he graduated with a Bachelor's degree with Honours Class I in Fine Arts (Time-Based Art) from the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, where he is currently a PhD candidate. His research explores the role of montage as a method for juxtaposing forms and meanings in new media art. His art practice incorporates animation, video installation art, film, sound, photography, drawing and sculpture. The interaction between these media and various moving image genre forms such as experimental video, film essay and observational documentary enables him to create new meanings and question the affordances of each medium. |
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Click here to view The Boy with the Magic Horn
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Author: Damir Očko Synopsis: During the Transition Period, Croatia abandoned one of the biggest projects ever to be built in the northern hemisphere: a university hospital that would occupy almost 250,000 square metres. The hospital was designed in the late '70s and partly built through the '80s, but was never completed. It forms the architectural backdrop for The Boy with a Magic Horn: derelict halls, bare concrete walls, labyrinths of unmarked rooms and nature invading the whole environment. Based on a Wagnerian scenario, the video depicts a dreamy and hallucinogenic |
game that alien characters play in order to describe their new social and emotional displacement … a place that exists somewhere between hope and oblivion. Biography: Damir Očko was born in 1977 in Zagreb, Croatia and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb. Selected solo exhibitions include: Why does Gravity make things fall?, Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art, Tirana, Albania, 2007 / Compositions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lotrscak Tower, Zagreb, Croatia, 2006 / Avoid, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia, 2005. Selected group exhibitions include: Heroes in Transition, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK, 2007 / Finale 2006, Putar award, Gallery Galzenica, Velika Gorica, Croatia, 2006. |
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Click here to view Cairo
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Christoph Oertli Synopsis: Christoph Oertli's video shows a person walking very slowly through the bustling city, quiet suburbs and peaceful rooftops of Cairo. As the districts change, so does the walker who continues his measured pace while observing the world around him without interaction. The environmental sound changes from noisy traffic to silence. |
Biography: Oertli (b 1962) lives in Basel and Paris. His studies include: audiovisual arts (Art and Design Academy Basel), stage design (Swiss Television) and graphic design (Art and Design Academy Zurich). Working as a video artist since 1995, he has been included in over 20 exhibitions and festival screenings, including ‘Swiss video landscapes today: looped sensations' which toured Japan in 2005, and the Pandaemonium festival, ICA, London in 2002. |
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Click here to view Departure
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Author: SJ.Ramir Synopsis: In Departure, SJ Ramir focused on the connection between emotional and geographical isolation. Using visual distortion as a tool, and accompanied by ‘uneasy' audio soundtracks, he attempts to transport the viewer to ‘a world where external geographical landscapes take on greater meaning and become metaphors for the journeys that we make through internal landscapes of the soul'. |
The entire footage was shot on location in New Zealand, and much of the layers used in the soundtrack feature audio ‘grabs' from rainforests and tussock country during shooting. Biography: SJ Ramir is a New Zealand video artist based in Melbourne. His work is heavily influenced by the natural landscapes of New Zealand and their influence – both emotionally and spiritually on the people that live within them. A recent short video was selected by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image for screening in the 'Memory Grid' exhibition and was also placed into ACMI's permanent archive collection. |
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Click here to view Evolution
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Author: Dana Sederowsky Synopsis: In Special Announcements, we meet a transient messenger, an announcer with her eyes closed and her face showing no emotions, commenting on different topics using a strong vocal delivery, in which there seems to be a conversation both between herself and herself and at the same time with other people. The project revolves around Sederowsky's current questioning of authorities and autocratic ways: |
the identification of proclaimers of truths and their (non-)reliability as proclaimers of truth. The topics of the Special Announcements series are: terrorism, evolution, religion, utopia, politics, doomsday and solitude. Biography: Dana Sederowsky (b 1975) works with video performance and photography. She has had several solo exhibitions and has exhibited internationally, including: Los Angeles International Art Biennial, U.S.A (1999), Gothenburg Museum of Art, Stenasalen, Sweden (2001/03), Villa San Michele, Capri, Italy (2005), and the inaugural Eject Video-performance Festival, Mexico City (2006). She lives and works in Gothenburg, Sweden. |
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Click here to view Infinity
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Author: Mai Yamashita & Naoto Kobayashi Synopsis: In order to determine the validity of the phrase ‘paths are made by walking', Yamashita & Kobayashi kept running in a fixed path in a park for over five days. In this silent time-lapse video compiled from digital photographs taken one per second, a path in the shape of the infinity symbol gradually emerges, as they move with seemingly high speed. |
Biography: The Japanese artistic duo Mai Yamashita (b 1976) and Naoto Kobayashi (b 1974) work in the field of multimedia, having both studied a MFA at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Since arriving to Germany in 2004, they now live and work in Europe, and have participated in various major international exhibitions, festivals and screenings, including: ARS 06, The Museum of Contemporary Art iKIASMA, Helsinki / I Am Future Melancholic, Tate Modern / Videonale 11, Kunstmuseum Bonn / International Film Festival Rotterdam / transmediale.06, Berlin |
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