In March 1976 Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman arrived in Australia for John Kaldor’s Public Art Project 5. Paik is regarded as the “father of video art”. Moorman was the organiser of the New York Avant Garde Festival, and had been working with Paik on various projects for about ten...
Interactive Multiuser Immersive Multimedia Environment by Tim Gruchy Commisioned for 2nd Asian Art Biennial, Taichung Clesthyra is a fictional mythological character from Neil Stephenson’s Anathem, who can see in all directions at once. This works breaks down and subverts that possibility. It subtly draws the audience’s attention within the 360º screen space,...
Artist Statement: During a month-long residency at The Library Artspace in Melbourne we came face-to-face with coal in a slow and meditative process of looking, listening and waiting to see what unfolded.
Australian Video Art: some key works – screening 23rd October Total runtime 84 minutes Mad meshDavid Perry, 19684minIdea Demonstrations # 4Peter Kennedy 19712minIdea Demonstrations # 7Peter Kennedy 19712 minInterior with ViewsDavid Perry 19765 minEvaStephen Jones (music by Warren Burt and performance by Eva Karczag), 19783 min extractNocturnal B 1978Warren Burt3 min extractAsphixiation
First in the series exploring a future where dream recording is possible, by the Brothers Gruchy. Tim Gruchy and Mic Gruchy. Screened at numerous international festivals.
Second in the series exploring a future where dream recording is possible, by the Brothers Gruchy. Tim Gruchy and Mic Gruchy explore incarceration in this episode inspired by “In The Belly of the Beast’ by Jack Henry Abbott. Screened extensively at numerous video festivals internationally and broadcast in Australia.
Ewing & George Paton Galleries, Lynn Hershman:
Av installation by Tim Gruchy A densely intricate series of slides with it’s delicate aural accompaniment all carefully built around the thread of a dream. Presented as a linear triptych with synchronised stereo soundscape, the hand made slide series was created using a layered process combining photocopy decay, graphic art camera manipulations...
In Paul Winkler’s highly personal 16mm film, Drums and Trains, a seemingly innocent child’s toy train and the ominous sounds drawn from archival footage of a boy-soldier striking a drum are looped, masked and reprinted across the screen surface of the work. These techniques have been perfected by Winkler over...
Eat Carpet was an Australian television series aired on SBS free-to-air television. It premiered alongside other programs such as MC Tee Vee and The Noise. Each hour-long episode consisted of up to a dozen short films shot by independent directors or experimental makers from all over the world. An estimated 3,000...
This video installation at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre documented emu feather outfits made by Maria Fernanda Cardoso and worn by a professional model. Part performance, part fashion, part “animal-morphism”, this video sits side by side with the racks of emu wear and wall pieces on display...
Videotape of performance recorded in Tokyo, Japan, 1975. Shown at the Biennale of Sydney 1976.
Get 2 Work welcomes viewers into a world of play and observation. Through the immersive environment, the work acts as a meeting space that allows audiences to explore the relationships, specific body movements, visuals and sounds created when categorising identities in Australia. Operating in accordance to their cultural backgrounds, Get...
Artist statement, September 2013 "Hollywood Burn is an anti-copyright epic constructed from hundreds of samples plundered from the Hollywood archive. Made over 10 years, it is a bombastic free culture call-to-arms that is freely available to view, clone, screen and file-share.
Collaborative video tape with Eva Schramm and Robert Randal & Frank Bendenelli Soundtrack: Warren Burt Exhibited at: Sydney Biennale 1982 – Studio Access Project: TE VE TABU, (20 April, 1982) NU VIEW - AFI Theatre, Melbourne, (3 Dec. 1982). Experimental Film & Video Festival - Munich Continuum - Scan Video Gallery, Tokyo 'Australie - la Reve et le Reel'...
Video by Tim Gruchy The song Jungles was from the ZIP book/EP package ZIP Eye Ear. The video was made at Heuristic Video in Sydney with Stephen Jones. It used a bed of performance material taken from The Zip Performing Group’s Ironing Board Dances, a series of hand painted 35mm slides...
10min video in collaboration with Gary Hillberg
