Videotape of performance recorded in Tokyo, Japan, 1975. Shown at the Biennale of Sydney 1976.
10min video in collaboration with Gary Hillberg
This work is a response to the plethora of daily comments directed towards me in my everyday happenings, by strangers discussing my large pregnant belly. Most, if not all of these comments were quite personal and based on no scientific evidence.
Creation is described in Kabbala as a process including Circles (Igulim) and Straightness (Yosher). Igulim describes a Divine light that does not tailor itself to the recipient - it surrounds its subject and is not internalized. It remains undefined and infinite like a circle that has no beginning or end....
‘Aura hysterica: the sensation of an acidic burning in all the limbs, twisted and almost raw muscles; the feeling of being glass like and breakable; a fear; a retreat from movement; an unconscious confusion of gait, gestures, and movements; a will perpetually straining to perform even...
Adorno/Bueller; Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, 1977, ed. Gretel Adorno and Rolf Tiedemann, trans. Robert Hullot-Kentor, University of Minnesota Press, 1997, pp 243-244; Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, dir. John Hughs, 1986, minutes 4:36-5:47. Scott Cupper, Shariba Rivers, Ben Veatch, Shawn Pfautsch, Carolyn Defrin, Jason Economus, Jennifer Shin.
Submission begins with a monochromatic blue wall, which is interrupted slowly, first by a shadow, then by voices, and finally by a glimpse of the room in which the blue wall sits.
An intimate video self-portrait of my own personal interactions and experiences with a Karakuri Ningyo (traditional Japanese mechanical doll).
Wish4[0] is based on a poetic interpretation of the maxim “Be Careful What You Wish For”. The title of the work is a truncation – and linguistic reworking – of the idea of wish fulfilment in the digital age, one where willing users and audience members are subjected to an “always-on”...
Video documentation of an action
Winner of the 2009 Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, Artspace, Sydney.
Documentation of an action High Definition video 16:9, colour, sound
Berlin 2012 is a single channel video work that presents the walls of a train station from the view of a moving train. The work is a collaboration between myself and the artist and musician Advait Thakur, who grew up in Canberra and currently resides in the United States. I...
Fatty Acid: The School of Cage 1975, b&w, NTSC. Performed: UCSD, 1975; documentary video tape in collaboration with Ronald Al Robboy and David Dunn, camera work by Ed Emshwiller, 45 mins.
colour, NTSC, video and sound synthesis, 25 mins. Performed: UCSD 1975, CHCMC, Melbourne, 1976.
Adelaide Festival Video (1991), 00:30 mins, Sydney/Adelaide. CVI and Abekas A64 imagery used to create an electronic ‘poster’ to accompany the print poster which I produced for the 1992 Adelaide Festival. [Peter Callas]
Australian Video Festival Commercials (1987), 2 x 00:30 mins, Sydney. CVI imagery used as call for entries for the Australian Video Festival. [Peter Callas]
Bilderbuch fur Ernst Will (Ernst Will's Picture Book): A Euro Rebus (1990-93), 11:00 mins, Sydney.
Bon Voyage (1986), 4:35 mins, Tokyo. Produced for the theatre group Island (directed by Koharu Kisaragi) for the opening event of Seed Hall, an event space atop Seed department store in Tokyo in 1986. The imagery utilises a similar two frame animation technique elsewhere employed in the tape Double Trouble. The...
