Autobiographical performance about the artist’s childhood in a milk bar at Tempe and his ancestral forbearers from the Greek Island of Kythera. 23 minutes, SP Beta
Pugilist Series 449 is a single channel video installation in which a boxer (the artist’s sister) delivers a flurry of several hundred blows to the artist’s body and...
Partly fictitious and partly autobiographical, Destiny Deacon’s world is populated by a cast of dolls, family and friends who enact ‘soap opera’ vignettes (1). She dramatises human comedies and tragedies within invented and fabricated dioramas, her entourage accompanied by masks, props and costumes revealing human foibles....
Cassandra forms part of the four-part Firewall project, exploring the concept of doors.
In Depart Without Return the artist lies in a small canoe shrouded in indigo silk with live blind moths covering her face so that she too is blind. The males flutter excitedly, squirting vibrant copper colored fluid until they find a female with which to join. After copulation the females...
HDV, Digi Beta. Silent. 09:16In a sequence of silent, improvisational fragments, a camera observes a swimming pool from the 17th floor of a hotel in Miami. Nothing specific is revealed. In the blurred movement of the swimmers, the distinction between body and water is...
HDV, DigiBeta, 04:25 mins, Stereo. 04:00 loop. 60 one-second sequences of anonymous travellers captured at 18 airports.
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
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
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...
Copyright the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery.
Copyright the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery.
The artist Shaun Gladwell often portrays isolated figures, undertaking choreographed acts like skateboarding or breakdancing. Located within urban and natural symbolically significant sites, his work articulates a relationship between the performer’s body and its immediate environment through slowed motion, often redefining the prescribed function of...
Copyright the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery.
