Single-channel HD video16:9 ratio, colour, sound
After many promises, Barack Obama has still not made a visit to Australia and Absence responds to this in a most simple but provocative way. To a soundtrack of Obama’s voice we see empty Canberra streets instead of the President’s motorcade and the House of Representatives devoid of human presence....
Crowdseen (1992) SP BetaCam, PAL, 6:06mins. Video: Brad Miller, Sound: Tom Ellard (Severed Heads)
Frame by Frame (1988), low band U-matic, PAL, 8:55mins Video: Jason Gee, Brad Miller; Music: Garry Bradbury
16:9, colour, silentVideography: Hugo O'Connor
Single channel standard definition deigital video19:38 minutes, 16:9, black and white, silentVideography: Brett Brown Framed newspaper advertisment19 x 15cm
10min video made in collaboration with Gary Hillberg
Heaven (1997) was Moffatt’s first foray into video art proper after an extensive career in documentaries, shorts, feature films and music videos. Using a low-end domestic camcorder Heaven consisted of surreptitiously recorded shots of male surfers showering and changing at beach-side car parks. As the piece progresses, Moffatt’s camera moves closer to her...
Scott Morrison intertwines video installation and intricate sound compositions to create new ways of viewing both natural and synthetic environments. Morrison’s new work, Small Choir, is a single channel video that moves into an increasingly complex yet seemingly familiar world of natural elements. This rhythmic and undulating work combines his interest...
Chew it up and spit it out. Samples:‘I Wanna Be Your Man’, The Beatles, 1963; ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’ by The Stooges, 1969
Filmed at Newington Armory, Oh Industry, 2009, mashes popular culture depictions of factory, military and naval labour with the amusements and distractions of early 20th century modern life. Bette Midler’s performance of the song ‘Oh Industry’ from the film Beaches (1988) and the popular film serial The...
This is the song Daniel Mudie Cunningham wants played at his funeral. Daniel has always been obsessed by Tina Turner's Proud Mary since seeing her perform live in Sydney in 1991 and 1993. The sublime experience of seeing a powder keg like Tina perform the song inspired its selection as his...
Performers: Daniel Mudie Cunningham & Rachel Roberts Music: George Tillianakis Camera: Don Cameron Editor: Vera Hong Cello Designer: Drew Bickford Filmed on location at Mrs Macquarie's Chair, Sydney, 18 August 2010 Exhibited in Rhymes with Failure, MOP Projects, 30 September - 17 OctoberExhibited in Fisher's Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, 6-21...
Take My Breath Away re-imagines Marina Abramovic and Ulay’s iconic 1977 performance Breathing In Breathing Out. The exchange of human breath between two men is mediated by a white balloon. Breathing is transformed from inhaling and exhaling into blowing and sucking, rendering this compulsory life-sustaining act into a compulsive, perverse,...
Daniel Mudie Cunningham's first ever video. VHS single channel video with sound, 3:18 min Performers: Michelle Seamons, Herbert NgSample: ‘Take Some Petrol Darling’, The Sugarcubes, 1988 Exhibited: AFI Cinema (now Chauvel Cinema), 1993.
Once upon a time there was a dark, dark cemeteryIn the cemetery there was a dark, dark groundUnder the dark, dark ground was a dark, dark coffinIn the dark, dark coffin was a dead man - Daryl Mudie, 1983
Assembly observes a morning ritual of prayer and movement, performed by primary school students. The children move in time: expressing themselves with their arms, hands and faces. The children move in response to 'reflection exercises' being read out from prayer cards that are used daily in...
Britney Love (2000) is a result of Kate Murphy’s interaction and friendship with an eleven year old girl whom she met while living in Glasgow, Scotland. The subject, Brittaney Love, and Murphy shared a fascination with pop culture and the latest pop star, who happened to share...
Seven years later in 2007, Murphy revisited the subject to make a follow-up of the piece, Britney Love (2007), in a direct reference to Michael Apted’s influential documentary project, the 7 up series. Now at 18 years of age Brittaney Love still aspires...
Kate Murphy's Count me in continues her fascination with the accidental and the unaware performer. Murphy is interested in the crossover between performance and the everyday as a dance. In this single channel video installation, Murphy's fixed camera is set up in the wings of a theatre at a high...
I've been to Paradise plays with the familiar genres of pop video and home movie. Murphy is the artist turned pop star, belting out Never Been to Me by Charlene on a beige leatherette lounge. Murphy mocks and subverts the language of aesthetics of Top of...
Composer: Basil Hogios The note was conceived when Murphy read a distant relative's suicide letter. Murphy asked composer Basil Hogios to develop a musical composition based on every word written in this letter. The result is a single-channel video installation, encompassing the quadraphonic sound of Hogios’ musical...
HDV DVD loop 14:30min, stereo sound Artwork commissioned as part of the Port Arthur Project, Ten Days on the Island 2007
