1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 EXHIBITION PROGRAM 2001 1 February to 3 March | 8 March to 7 April | 12 April to 12 May | 28 June to 28 July | 9 August - 8 September | 20 September to 27 October | 8 November - 15 December ALL TIMES ARE IN CENTRAL STANDARD TIME, ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA 1 February to 3 March MATHIEU GALLIEU     Flesh-Hunger Sydney based artist Mathieu Gallois has created projects that utilise the forms and processes of tv and print media, and the illusory possibilities of cinema special effects. In 1998 he installed an actual-size white styrofoam facsimile of a new home in a new Sydney housing estate; and has developed a project for the National Portrait Gallery which photographically documents each of the 386 passengers on a transcontinental Boeing 747 flight. Gallois has worked in the special effects department at Fox Studios. Mathieu Gallois' ambitious installation offered an enigmatic and perceptually compelling experience. The work was a life-sized 'film-set' depicting a desert oasis (with plushly decorated tent, palm trees and sand). The scene was placed on a large stage-like platform with a curved back painted in Chroma Key blue. To create certain special effects in film & TV, the use of the Chroma Key (or bluescreen) technique allows the superimpositions of objects and actors in the studio into a seperate background scene. Gallois chose to paint the entire scene (sand, trees & tent included) in Chroma Key. If it were filmed using a bluescreen process, the entire installation would conceivably 'disappear', a nifty metaphor for the idea of a desert oasis as a mirage. The ambient lighting emphasised the work's reference to illusion, as the entire scene appeared insubstantial and mirage-like. The title of the work was a reference to its sexualised theme, and to the suspension of desire that is a function of much contemporary cinema. An A3 colour bifold catalogue was produced, documenting the work exhibited, with texts by Chris Chapman and Stephen Zagala. 8 March to 7 April KATHERINE HUANG   CHAIR WITH A CORN YELLOW SOCK PLUS ONE CLOUD SONJA PORCARO   WEFT The work of Melbourne based artist Katherine Huang, and Adelaide based artist Sonja Porcaro will be presented as two distict groups of work, also sharing the open space of the EAF gallery. The two artists work will activate certain relations in terms of architectural syntax, horizontal and vertical axes, formalism and materiality, and conceptual concerns. 12 April to 12 May RUARK LEWIS   New Work Sydney based artist Ruark Lewis's project Just For Nothing is "a text-installation of an artists book by Ruark Lewis based on Kaye Mortley's translation of Nathalie Sarraute's play Pour un oui ou pour un non." Comprising polychrome text panels and a voice and sound component, the project deals with the fragility of human friendships. This is Lewis's first major project in Adelaide since the project RAFT (with Paul Carter) presented at the Art Gallery of South Australia in 1997. 24 May to 23 June BONITA ELY   Inside Mawson's Sleeping Bag Sydney based artist Bonita Ely regularly exhibits in Australia and overseas, and recently completed a sculpture commission in Hue, Vietnam. In 1980 Ely undertook a residency at the EAF, where she presented the performance 'Murray River Punch' and produced the artists book 'Murray/Murundi'. Ely will present a major installation work incorporating references to Aboriginal oral history, the personal diaries of Antarctic explorer Sir Douglas Mawson, Sinitic calligraphy, and 19th century literature to interrogate the construction of contemporary Australian mythology. NEW ZEALAND ARTISTS @ EAF   THRASH 28 June to 28 July DAN ARPS, NATHAN POHIO, ELLA REED, JULAINE STEPHENSON The Physics Room is a contemporary art space in Christchurch, New Zealand (a sister city to Adelaide). Recently the EAF and The Physics Room have developed a relationship mainly via the art magazine 'Log Illustrated', in which the work of several young South Australian artists have been featured. In order to facilitate an exchange between the two organisations, we decided to send each other an exhibition featuring local artists' work. The EAF's group show GLEAM will be presented at The Physics Room in 2001, in exchange for this exhibition of new work by artists based in Christchurch. ANTON HART & GEORGE POPPERWELL   THE CLOAK ROOM 9 August to 8 September (SALA Week) South Australian artists Hart & Popperwell will create a major new collaborative installation work for the EAF. This multimedia work will explore notions of transformation and enigma. This is first major artistic collaboration by these two leading artists. Brook Andrews   NGAJUU WANT TO BELIEVE 20 September to 27 October Sydney based Wiradjuri artist Brook Andrew has been included in major exhibitions in Australia and overseas and he has been commissioned to create major public sculptures for sites including Sydney International Terminal and Olympic Park. In the past Andrew's work has dealt with issues of indigenous identities and forms of contemporary mass communication, and he will exhibit new work at the EAF. DAMP   More Than A Feeling 8 November to 15 December The Melbourne performance group DAMP arrived in Adelaide the week before their opening and did some exploratory provocation & incitement - and constructed a kind of collective 'happy-snap' of Adelaide: playing in the gallery were videod responses to their question, which went something like: If you could have anything, what is it that would make you really happy? no one got the chance to dig deep - but the answers all together were pleasantly sentimental and charming ('I want to buy the pub off mum and dad', 'I'd like to talk to the dead','All the boys I want','A boat to go sailing','A souped up blue Torana','More buses','The second half of the skate ramp to be built','Job satisfaction','A pack of cigarettes that nver runs out','A new bike','To join a circus'). On opening night cheer-squad performers assisted volunteers - armed with placards of their choice - to proclaim these wishes. Filmed, this played over subsequent weeks while around the gallery were arranged a myriad of slogan placaeds. There were also kindred video projections (a sequence of peoples personal, privately favourite spots, for example, showed a bit of Circular Quay, a bit of melbourne markets & so on). Media Anne Walton "Agent Provocateur" Broadsheet vol. 32 #1, 2002 p.26 James Dodd, Yoko Kajio, Tim Sterling, Kate Stryker   GLEAM 8 May to 7 July Tour to the Physics Room, Christchurch, Aotearoa / New Zealand previous screen    screen top