Curator: Blair French
Artists: Angelica Mesiti, Kate Murphy, Elena Näsänen, Mel O'Callaghan

EVENT featured work by four artists from Australia and Europe whose moving image practices reveal a deep acculturation of cinematic forms as they work to create as well and the psychological as well as physical experience of various performative acts.

These artists create video and film work for installation encounter that draws on, and/or disrupts cinematic rhythms that are as 'natural' as spoken language. For example, in their work we may note cinema referenced as a structural blueprint for conceptual video action. The use of looped narrative is another such feature. Extended performance is another.

EVENT is distinguished by two further avenues of relation between cinema and its shadowing in the realms of contemporary art. The first involves the manner in which these artists borrow certain grammatical structures from cinema in order to create an experience of estrangement, both of their characters from one-another and their visual environment, but also between an audience and character, setting up a form of detached yet compulsive fascination on the part of the audience member.

(Text from Artspace Website)