Saturday, October 9, 2010
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Unmissable! Watch all 13 eps on Vimeo if you have the time....
August 4, 2006, the personal search queries of 650,000 AOL (America Online) users accidentally ended up on the Internet, for all to see. These search queries were entered in AOL's search engine over a three-month period. After three days AOL realized their blunder and removed the data from their site, but the sensitive private data had already leaked to several other sites.
I love Alaska tells the story of one of those AOL users. We get to know a religious middle-aged woman from Houston, Texas, who spends her days at home behind her TV and computer. Her unique style of phrasing combined with her putting her ideas, convictions and obsessions into AOL's search engine, turn her personal story into a disconcerting novel of sorts.
Over a period of three months, a portrait of a woman emerges who is diligently searching for likeminded souls. The list of her search queries read aloud by a voice-over reads like a revealing character study of a somewhat obese middle-aged lady in her menopause, who is looking for a way to rejuvenate her sex life. In the end, when she cheats on her husband with a man she met online, her life seems to crumble around her. She regrets her deceit, admits to her Internet addiction and dreams of a new life in Alaska.
Directors:
Lernert Engelberts
Sander Plug
Friday, May 14, 2010
Installation view of new work by Brisbane-based collaboration DavisThomas at NoFrills* Gallery: Studio 3.10 109 Edward Street Brisbane
May 5 - May 23, 2010.
Following text courtesy of NoFrills Gallery Artist-run Initiative, Brisbane.
UnRaveL created by collaborative team DavisThomas (Adrian Davis and Lubi Thomas) is an ambitious kinetic work, being housed in the No Frills* gallery.
This immense mechanical artwork will systematically engulf the gallery, prompting causal relationships between media, space, viewer and artistic creation. Through form and function the work alludes to the industrious nature of the site, corporeal encounters and sublime sensorial responses.
DavisThomas have exhibited widely across Brisbane, including The Block, !Metro Arts, QUT Art Museum and Soapbox, as well as internationally at Beijing’s Today Gallery. They also have an expanding public arts practice, with commissions from both private and public sector clients.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Peter Madden | My Own Private Idealogue @ Gertrude Street Contemporary Art Spaces, 2009
My Own Private Idealogue | Gertrude Street Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia
Curated by Emily Cormack
Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces is pleased to present a new exhibition My Own Private Idealogue. This exhibition combines the work of three artists, Joanna Langford, Peter Madden and Rohan Wealleans. Each of these artists employs a highly subjective language to describe personal mythologies, fictional histories and symbolic landscapes.
Whilst these artists employ distinct materials and methods, they are connected through their impulse to appropriate objects, artefacts and historical accounts in a highly personal manner. In their sculptural installations, the often-everyday materials used are imbued with new identities, and become implicated in vast mythological environments.
Peter Madden employs collage to distil meaning from found images, lifting creatures and scenes from National Geographic magazine and reassembling them in vast accumulations and installations. Madden instils his cut-outs with an energy that is all their own – employing the language of connotation to give movement, meaning and combustion to his dislocated creatures as they inhabit their ideographic landscapes.
Joanna Langford’s vast impossible landscapes often feature small wooden ladders and buildings that traverse billowing plastic bag mountain ranges, catering to the needs of a civilization known only to the artist.
The totems, tools and props that populate Rohan Wealleans’ work seem to have been created to cultivate a primal landscape of protrusions and intrusions, constructed from layers of paint, teeth and shark’s jaws that take on Indiana Joneseque tribalism.
Conceptually My Own Private Idealogue fleshes out the relationship between psychoanalysis and post colonialism, examining the extent to which these three artists are responding to our contemporary de-colonised position, in which symbols and histories are readily detachable, and identities and mythologies are personalised as much as they are polemic.
This exhibition features a major selection of work from across Wealleans’ and Madden’s careers and invites the viewer to contemplate the spectrum of their practice, as well as featuring a large-scale, site-specific installation by Joanna Langford.
My Own Private Idealogue will occupy both gallery spaces at GCAS, with the gallery space activated by a collaborative architectural component that will mimic and highlight the unique interplay between these artists’ innovative expressions of their personal, interior worlds.
Bryan Spier exhibiting at RRG in September 2009
Bryan Spier | September 10 - 26, 2009
BRYAN SPIER 'Chromatherapy' (2008)
BRYAN SPIER 'The Dark' (2009)
BRYAN SPIER 'Permanent' (2009)
BRYAN SPIER 'Overlapping' (2009)
BRYAN SPIER 'Modular' (2009)
BRYAN SPIER 'Giant Ocean' (2009)
BRYAN SPIER 'Dots' (2009)
BRYAN SPIER 'Chromatherapy' (2008)
BRYAN SPIER 'Blood with Reeds' (2009)
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