Current Projects
EXPERIMENTA SCREENGRAB AT FEDERATION SQUARE
5 - 31 December 2011
Curated exclusively for Federation Square, Experimenta presents a short programme of recent Australian screen based worksfor screening throughout December 2011. Experimenta Screengrab features three Australian artists: Jess MacNeil, Kate Murphy and Emile Zile, artists who share a unique dialogue and engagement with the world around them.
Jess MacNeil's Revolution is a 360 degree navigation around Trafalgar Square in London and a meditative consideration of the human presence in public space and the traces we leave behind. Emile Zile's Five production company logos' in 3D is an irreverent single channel video work in which the artist performs the signature logo's of five production companies in synch with an original soundtrack. The implicit critique of the proliferation of image production and consumption in this work is brought alive in this context and is an irreverent look at the generation of "content" for mass audiences. Kate Murphy's work Count me in draws us in to a strange kind of intimacy with young performers at an end of year concert. By placing an observational camera just offstage, we witness the giddy breathlessness and nervous anticipation of these "accidental" performers as they wait in the wings. The work is an insightful and poignant celebration.
Experimenta Screengrab is contemplative and reflective, fun and irreverent, intimate and optimistic, acknowledging the geographic, conceptual and temporal context of Fed Square.
A second programme of single channel screen works will be announced for screening in January 2012.
