Skylab - out of orbit

Dave Carson - Brian McClave - George Millward

Opens at Linden
6pm Friday 15 October 2004

It seems that things that fall to earth inspire an array of interesting responses in us: fear, curiosity, anger, awe and that age-old feeling that we may not be totally alone in the universe.

Skylab - out of orbit, is a multi-disciplinary collaborative exhibition between Perth based artist Dave Carson, international video artist Brian McClave and ex NASA atmospheric physicist and electronic musician George Millward.

Featuring paintings, a 3D video with accompanying sound scape and digital image projections that can be viewed through polarised 3D glasses, Skylab focuses on events that took place at two remote sites in Western Australia, and the relics of those extra-terrestrial visitations.

The two sites, Wolfe Creek Crater where a giant meteorite landed over 300,000 years ago and Esperance, the site of the fallout from Skylab in 1979, became a matrix connecting the ancient with the modern, the poetic with the scientific and the real with the imagined.

This 3D stereoscopic video installation draws from hard facts, evidence, scientific readings and recorded myths, stories and beat-ups. It is a gentle and poetic exploration of our curiosity, ingenuity and desire to make sense of what surrounds us.

Public programs include:

• A floortalk by artist Dave Carson with a special screening of 2 additional 3D video works by Carson, McClave and Millward on Sunday 17 October at 3pm;
• A conversation between Chris Ellis, Founding President of the Astrological Society of Melbourne and Dave Carson at 6.30pm Thursday 11 November.

Click here for further details.

The tour of Skylab is managed by Art on the Move. Skylab continues until Sunday 21 November 2004.
Gallery hours are Tuesday - Sunday 1.00pm - 6.00pm.

For further information and/or images please contact
Jan Duffy on +61 3 9209 6794 or email info@lindenarts.org

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