The Australian International Video Festival, 1991 - Video Installation Peter Callas - Our Potential Allies (1980 & 1991)
Ambient Alphabet (c of meaning) (1992), 5:16 mins, Tokyo.
three monitor installation, 20:00 mins, 1981Roslyn Oxley Gallery Sydney (1981) and “A Different Perspective” Artspace Sydney, (1981)
How to Make the Famous Pisco Sour; A Videotape inThree Locations (1986), 16:10 mins, Tokyo.
installation incorporating videos and built structures.Adelaide Festival (1992);“Video Positive”, Liverpool (1993); Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham (1994); “Multimediale 4” ZKM Karlsruhe (1995) Commissioned by the Adelaide Festival, this installation featured two styrofoam sculptured heads of Lenin and Marat, based on imagery from Bilderbuch für Ernst Will (Ernst Will’s Picture Book): A Euro...
installation incorporating videos and built structures, 1989“In Transit” Chisenhale Gallery, London (1989)
Our Potential Allies (1980), dual monitor installation, 15:00 mins. Reconfigured for single screen (1999). Various locations including The Sydney Studio (1981); Australian Perspecta (1981) Art Gallery of NSW Sydney; “Portopia 81”, Kobe, Japan (1981); “Vision in Disbelief”, 4th Biennale of Sydney (1982); “Parallel Universes”, Queensland University of Technology (2012); “Digital Aesthetic”, Preston, UK,...
three monitor installation 15:00 mins, 1991“Refiguring the Media Image”, Ivan Dougherty Gallery Sydney (1991) A recreation of the 1980s installation using a third monitor which featured a series of masks. Peter Callas
Two monitor installations 11:00 mins, 1980 These dual screen works aimed to contrast manipulated and unmanipulated imagery. The source imagery for Shared Shadow was filmed in a park in Rozelle, Sydney, utilising the shadow of the camera, tripod and operator (myself). The second screen shows an identical sequence in (rough) synchronisation...
Style (1988), 4:25 mins, Sydney. CVI imagery used on four screens fed by four synchronised laser disks to depict objects from the Style collection of the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. This installation ran for the first seven years of the Powerhouse. [Peter Callas]
installation incorporating videos and multiple slide projections, 1988Artspace Sydney (1988); Praxis, Perth (1988); Australian Centre for Contemporary Art,Melbourne (1988) Installation presentation of work made in Japan, with multiple slide projections on the walls. (The composition above was produced with four slide projectors and one monitor; the slide composition measuring approximately 3.5...
installation incorporating videos and built structures, 1990-92Long Beach Museum of Art Long Beach (1990); “Video Positive”, Liverpool (1991); “Australian Perspecta” Art Gallery of NSW (1991); “Installation Age” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography Tokyo (1992) An installation based on Neo Geo. A physical pyramid combining Masonic imagery of the front of the...
three monitor installation, 20:00 mins, 1981Roslyn Oxley Gallery Sydney, 1981 This piece was made in reaction to my involvement in the filming of the documentary Deadly Harvest in Thailand and the Shan States of Burma. The two person crew were in the ultimately unsuccessful pursuit of an interview with a notorious...
A three-channel video photo and neon installation dealing with the Diasporic Greek reflections on the artist's childhood, cinema and the visual arts.
John A DouglasStrange Land Vol Ifeaturing Sari TM Kivinen & Liam BensonSoundtrack: Debra Petrovitch
Journeys aiding memory are something we are all familiar with. For the most part, they take the form of viewing a family photo album or reliving and sharing oral histories. In Julie Dowling’s Oottheroongoo (your country), we are invited to accompany the artist on a recent journey to her ancestral country. As...
Two-channel vertical video Colour, silentMaster tape: HDCAMAvailable HDCAM, DigiBeta PALShot on HDV "Aqua/ocean continues the Aqua series of works, which depict people immersed in different bodies of water. On a grey day, surfers paddle out towards a ship that passes without stopping. A rainbow arches across the overcast sky." Merilyn Fairskye Camera/Director/Editor:...
Three-channel video installation 3 custom screens (168 x 300cm)Colour, stereo sound Fieldwork continues my longstanding interest in the relationship between the still and moving image. As with my recent works, Stati d’Animo (2005-07) and Aqua (2007), time and duration come into play in different ways in each of these new works: Fieldwork I (Echo Point, Giza, Pripyat) (2009)...
Single channel video projection Colour, silent Fieldwork continues my longstanding interest in the relationship between the still and moving image. As with my recent works, Stati d’Animo (2005-07) and Aqua (2007), time and duration come into play in different ways in each of these new works: Fieldwork I (Echo Point, Giza, Pripyat) (2009) andFieldwork II (Chernobyl) (2009).
Presented at Whose Afraid of the Avant-Garde 3, Performance Space, Sydney 2005; curated by Blair French Live video from micro colour CCTV cameraParticle Board, timber, MDF, carpet, photographs, perspex, glass, PVC plastic, TV monitor, micro video-camera, light, motor, paint, Letraset, art magazines
Presented at the Fauvette Loureiro Travelling Scholarship Award exhibition, Sydney College of the Arts galleries, 2007. Digital video, PAL, silent Duration: 7 sec loop repeated over approx 3mins, repeatedMDF, timber, stain, paint, perspex, tracing paper, video projector, DVD loop, PVC pipe, rope, eyelets, bolts Rear projection of archival footage from the US led...
Presented at S-Hot, Artspace Sydney; curated by Nick Tsoutas, 1999. Digital video, PAL, B+W, silentDuration: 2min loop60 x speakers + aluminium housings, speaker cable, cassette deck + loop tape – crowd cheering – amplifier, video monitor, VHS player + video loop – thronging crowd from ‘October’ by Sergei Eisenstein.
Presented at Artspace, Sydney, 2012 Live video from micro colour CCTV cameraParticle board, PVC pipe, paint, MDF, masonite, woodgrain contact, carpet, speakers, microphones, cable, colour micro-video camera, data projector, photograph, perspex, brackets
Presented at Artspace, Sydney, 2012 Digital video, PAL, B+W, silentDuration: Two loops 4mins eachPlasterboard, timber, mdf, acrylic, enamel, perspex, photographs, digital video, data projector.
