EXHIBITION DATES:Saturday, 9 April 2011 - Sunday, 8 May 2011
OPENING:6-8pm Friday 8 April
A mix of mediums will be presented in this Innovators series of exhibitions which will explore issues of identity and transformation
Gallery I (front) Remember Me continues artist Reko Rennie's ongoing theme about remembering the past and celebrating the survival of Indigenous people. In particular, this installation is a visual commentary about the artist's family background and his identity as an urban Aboriginal.
Gallery 1 (rear) Submerge is a video installation by Carolyn Lewens, Tim Catlin & Asmund Heimark in which immersive underwater worlds are filled with new potential via analogue revival and digital renewal. Speculative life-forms emerge out to the ghosts of photography to evolve and float to the surface in animation.
Gallery 2 Jamie Boys', Internal Transmutation is an experiment in adaptation, information transference and learned behaviour. In an age where technology has become the teacher, the informer and at times a sub-portion of the brain or memory, the concept of obtaining wisdom seems an abstract and almost unfamiliar act. This work is a return to primordial origins of animal instinct, intuitive actions and unconscious acts of an inner knowledge.
Gallery 3 The uncertainty of the future is forever haunting in these times of climate change. The waters are rising, people are moving and lives are merging. The underwater ghosts in Deborah White's, Ghosts of the Near Future are a figurative combination of human and animal to reflect the drowning and dislocation of identity amid the shifting shoreline. The caged ghosts kept captive in a menagerie of the future, reflect the futility of containing and controlling the abounding anxieties.
Gallery 4 Amelia Johannes, Twofoldness explores her displaced identity within the context of family, tradition, vernacular and memory. Using home videos and family rituals her research-based art practice investigates the uncertainty of cultural heritage and the uncertainty of 'twinness'. This video installation shifts the original content of family imagery and recorded videos into a visual experience of creative and technical exploration.
Gallery 5 Danae Valenza's work Idiolect (instructions for a pop song) deals with inter-subjectivity and communication; how we form relationships, the dynamics of traditional or ritualistic forms of social interaction. Five musicians are given a recipe for a song. Each play to the same key, tempo, time, and structure that follows the convention of a simple AABA pop song. Each individual will be constricted to the same rules and have equal input in the final piece of music.
For more information and images please contact Jan Duffy 03 9534 0099 or info@lindenarts.org
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