Blue

Hope: A Moving Image
8 to 19 August 2007
191 Gouger Street, Adelaide
and Arts SA windows, 110 Hindley St, Adelaide

Hope: A Moving Image is an opportunity to experience the work of several well known emerging artists expressed in the medium of ‘film’. While familiar to the viewer, film is a medium unfamiliar to the practices of most of the exhibiting artists.

The artists selected to explore moving image in Hope: A Moving Image are:
Prathna Biswas \ Susan Bruce \ Reuben Duffy \ Peter Dyson \ Ruth Fazakerley \ Agnieszka Golda \ Anja Jagsch \ Scott James \ Lorelei Siegloff \ Ryan Sims \ Scott Taylor

Hope: A Moving Image is supported by the Helpmann Academy and Rob Ellis of Local Tech Services has provided the projection screens. The exhibition is part of the SALA Festival Moving Image Project.

Our contribution, the 3 minute video Blue, makes use of text, colour and repetition to bring together something of the affectual economies of both Australian and Polish rituals of renewal associated with domestic house painting!

it all started with a snow flake

Crocheting, the seductive tactility of tightly intertwined surfaces could be utilised to disturb ideals, shinning and glorified examples of sacrifice, suffering, renouncement and martyrdom. This traditionally female practice shifts between the romantic and the insubordinate, dislodging and unsettling historical, ethnographic and political admissions and events.

fire

Ok…a way (my intention) to assemble the current cultural inability to meaningfully honour grief and loss. I can’t believe I said that, I mean…construct some transformative affect on/for the viewer. (aha, political, yes ugly social reality), so what about, fire than?

from green

well, some do not wish to show the horror of emotional turmoil through explicit imagery, well... that’s ok, but there is nothing better than, chicken feet, bells on horns and cow tongues. As well as, cloth, wax, dead animals, films and film sets.

night lights

I feel compelled…..I’m interested in….how to…..ways to tackle emotional and psychological states connected to loss, pain and death. Yet, most of all these images are metaphors for death that is transcended.

From Abstract to Bambino