Drawing influence from works by historical figures such as Eadweard Muybridge, Harold Edgerton and Andy Warhol, through to more contemporary influences such as Marcus Lyall, Manjari Sharma and Bill Viola, Comfortable Discomfort adopts the portraiture style into video form.
Jon Rose: Cello and Electronics John Gillies: video duration 13 min presented at the Australian Independent Music Festival, Paddington Town Hall, 1982
2min 45sec video loop, mono sound
camera: Johnathan Larsen
9 min 25 sec HD video, stereo sound or 3 channel installation, 4.1 sound
2 channel video installation stereo sound duration of loop: 8min
FIM!: Festival da Imagem en Movimento Mixed Bodies: Recent Australian Video appresentaçoa e curadoria / presented and curated by John Gillies quarta 3 junho / wed 3 june, 22.00h/ 10pm Local/Place: Sala Walter da Silveria Reprise: quinta 4 junho / Thursday 4 june, 20.00h / 8pm Local / place: Sala Alexandre Robatto Salvador, Bahia, Brasil
John Gillies’ Road Movie (part 1) is about cars: a portrait of a seething mass of steel- cased bubbles and the people inside them who are hurtled along at high speeds only to come to a crashing halt and find themselves stuck in the drawn out nothing time of the...
14 min loop performer: James Rogers
made with Sydney Front
5 min mono sound
Macintosh G3, Dyson vacuum cleaner, amplifier, speaker, audio.
Apology to Roadkill is part of a series of works that meditate upon the well-known Australian films Mad Max I and Mad Max II. It was included in Shaun Gladwell’s presentation in the Australian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2009) among a suite of video and sculptural...
Celebrated contemporary artist Shaun Gladwell is renowned for his mesmerising studies of the body in motion, set against the backdrop of specific sites that range from gritty urban environments to remote vast landscapes.
