"The exhibition focused on artists who use fictions, fakes, invented methodologies and experiments as a basis for their work. The projects celebrated the potential of the creative act to generate alternative worlds, suggesting that our everyday belief systems may be constructed, hallucinatory and changeable." [BOS Website]. Curated by Richard Grayson...
Matinaze 1990: Premieres and Rare SigntingsDomain Theatre, Art Gallery of NSWA selection of Australian film and video art presented by Sydney Super 8 Film Group inc and assisted by the Australian Film Commisison.
Andrew Frost was born in 1962 in Sydney, Australia. Frost has worked as an artist in various media including film, video and painting, and as a writer, curator, critic and lecturer.
Artistic director Tony Bond's vision for the 9th Biennale of Sydney was to reflect a shift from the art making centres of Europe and the USA to countries whose artists had not been represented in previous Biennales. "Work of controversial artists such as Orlan, examined transgressions of conceptual and cultural...
"Madame Tussaud learnt her skills of wax modelling during the French Revolution. The Terror provided her with models more often dead than alive. The story of Madame Tussaud is woven around the great portrait machine of the revolution - the guillotine. Descriptions of its awesome efficiency and her gruesome task...
Splash: The Sydney Film & Video Event April 20 – May 1, 1988 Event Co-ordinator: Simon Cooper Forums Co-ordinator: Susan Charlton A program of film and video art screenings held in Sydney.
John Conomos is a writer, artist and theorist. In addition to his exhibitions, he has written extensively on film, video and the visual arts, as he seeks to chart a path between the practice of the essay as a written form but also as an ongoing practice across video, films,...
Towards the end of his residency at Griffith Artworks David Perry presented two evenings of his works at the IMA, Brisbane. On the evening of the 9th, as well as showing early films, he showed: Utopian Memory Banks present Fragments from the Past, Interior with Views, andNear Redland Bay, 1975/76 and gave a...
