1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 EXHIBITION PROGRAM 2005 27 Jan - 19 Feb | 24 Feb - 2 April | 14 April - 14 May | 18 - 21 May | 2 June - 2 July | 14 July - 13 August |25 August - 24 September | 6 October - 5 November | 17 November - 17 December ALL TIMES ARE IN CENTRAL STANDARD TIME, ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA This information was correct at the time of of publishing, but is subject to change ANTIRREALISMOS   Spanish Photomedia Now Opening 6pm 27 January - 19 February 2005 Antirrealismos presents imaginative new directions in the work of Spain's leading contemporary photo and video artists. For many years, the Spanish scene has remained firmly rooted in the traditional photographic forms of documentary, photojournalism, travel photography and portraiture. Antirrealismos escapes this quotidian, unadorned reality by addressing the more wide-ranging approach adopted by a group of new artists whose work displays the new vitality and power of expression emerging in Spanish photographic practice today. Exhibiting Artists Olga Adelantado, Lara Almárcegui, César Alvárez, Sergio Belinchón, Mira Bernabeu, Chus García-Fraile, Miguel Ángel Gaüeca, Adrià Julià, Cristina Lucas, Enrique Marty, Joan Morey, Aitor Ortiz, El Perro, Ixone Sádaba, Fernando Sánchez-Castillo, Jesús Segura Curated by Paco Barragán A collaboration with the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney WANG JIANWEI   Giant Steps Opening 6pm 24 February - 2 April 2005 Beijing-based Wang Jianwei is one of China's best-known conceptual artists. His video works run the gamut from documentary-style productions to more theatrical efforts, often exploring the relationships of power within China's changing social and economic landscape. Wang Jianwei - Giant Steps is a major solo exhibition of three video works including Ceremony (2003), and Square (2003). Spider (2004) explores the complexity of relationships, power and history within the context of contemporary corporate lifestyle and was shot within a labyrinthe of offices, corridors and boardrooms in one of China's largest computer serveillance companies. Spider questions accepted histories and systems of knowledge by interrogating the dynamic inter-relationships between science, philosophy, art, society and human experience through a language that is itself experimental. Wang Jianwei's international reputation has been built over a decade of exhibiting extensively in major world contemporary art events. His work has been presented at the Centre Pompidou (Paris, 2002), the Kunsten Festival des Arts (Belgium 2000, 2002), the Kunst-Werke Centre (Berlin, 2001), Sao Paulo Biennale (2002), Hong Kong Arts Centre (1998), Shanghai Biennale (2000) and the PS1 Contemporary Art Centre (New York, 1999). Presented in collaboration with Asia-Australia Arts Centre Gallery 4A, Sydney, and in association with the 2005 Adelaide Film Festival IAN HAIG   The Dirt Factory Opening 6pm 15 April - 14 May 2005 Installation, paintings, drawings, objects, video, animation, sound . A new body of work by Melbourne-based artist, Ian Haig, which explores the social and cultural implications of contemporary society's health pre-occupation with detoxing and cleansing, and its origins in early 20th century theories of autointoxication, colonic irrigation, and the development of the cornflakes breakfast cereal. The Dirt Factory is a pseudonym for the human body, a machine for producing filth. The exhibition will look at the ideas of the toilet as an extension of the human digestive system, the human body as plumbing, the inner body vs the outer body, the notion of faeces as an organic reminder of our own mortality, detoxing and the idea of removing the inner self, dirt vs cleanliness and its connections to high culture/low culture. Ian Haig is one of Australia's leading new media artists. Throughout the past two decades his works have featured in more than 120 media art festivals worldwide. Prestigious venues and events include Centre Pompidou, Art Museum of China, Seventh International Symposium on Electronic Art-Netherlands, and Museum of Contemporary Art-Sydney, Australian National Gallery-Canberra, Australian Centre for the Moving Image-Melbourne. In 2003-04 he was awarded a New Media Arts Board of the Australia Council Fellowship. Further info at www.ianhaig.net   Eduardo Kac   WORKSHOP & Lecture 18 - 21 May 2005 Please note, there is no exhibition on during the residency   PUBLIC LECTURE Thursday 19 May 6pm - 7.30pm VENUE: Mercury Cinema Lion Arts Centre, North Terrace at Morphett Street, Adelaide, South Australia Admission free WORKSHOP 18 May 1:30-4:30pm A Brief History of Art & DNA: Questioning the Ideology of Biology 19 May 1:30-4:30pm Art and Ecology Presentation 20 May 1:30-4:30pm Art and Genetics Presentation 21 May 1:30-4:30pm Consciousness in Non-human Animals and Plants Workshop places are now filled   image Eduardo Kac from KAC web Eduardo Kac's residency in Australia has been made possible with the assistance of the South Australian Government through Arts SA's Artist in Residence Program. E t h e r W o r l d s Melinda Rackham Adam Nash   Empyrean Scorched Happiness WEB3DART2005 Opening 6pm 2 June-2 July 2005 EtherWorlds consists of installed three dimensional on-line environments. Melinda Rackham Empyrean Melinda Rackham is an artist, writer, curator and media consultant based in Sydney, Australia, who has been working online since 1995 and is the producer of -empyre- online media forum. Her practice has investigated the aesthetic, technological and philosophical aspects of online identity, locality, sexuality and community, as well as viral symbiosis and trans species relations. Her writing appears online and in a wide variety of print journals. Her web works have been shown widely, including Beyond Interface, Arco Electronico, Transmediale, File, Art Entertainment Network, The Montreal Biennale, European Media Art Festival, Hybrid Life Forms, MAAP, Perspecta, Biennial of Buenos Aires, lab3D and ISEA. Empyrean is the zone of electronically constructed 3 dimensional space, a virtual geography populated by textual entities. It is a parallel universe, an etheric arena beyond space and time - a world of gaps and intervals, fluidly traced by interactions with others, rather than rigidly mapped by terrritorialising agents. This zero space is transversed by in-tensions, relations, attractions, and transitions between energetic avatars. Here we are softly embodied avatars, navigating through a series of scapes without the regular markers of order and normalcy. There is no horizon to orient oneself. There is no up or down. Here in-tensions and strange attractions make sense of otherworldly, yet oddly familiar domains. Go to Melinda Rackham's work at subtle.net/empyrean image Melinda Rackham "empyreanAlpha" screengrab Adam Nash Scorched Happiness Adam Nash is an internationally recognised net-based artist working in realtime 3d multi-user space as a live performance medium. His work attempts to explore the visual, sonic and spiritual qualities that are native to 3d cyberspace. Currently, networked multi-user 3D computer games are enjoying great popularity as entertainment, and multi-user cyberspace is increasingly being used for educational and scientific purposes. Because shared cyberspace is a relatively new and unfamiliar space, it is natural that initial work in this area has been interested in mimicking real space, or exploring the relationship between physical presence and virtual presence by recreating the human form as avatar. But there has been little work done investigating the potential of shared networked space as a site for live virtual performance art on its own terms. Using Julia Kristeva's text "Toccata and Fugue for the Foreigner" (from Stranger to Ourselves) as a basis, Scorched Happinessis an attempt to develop a live performative vocabulary that is native to shared cyberspace. Pale Shining Winter is being exhibited as part of Web3dArt 2005. See the work of Adam Nash onyamanakanash.net image Adam Nash Scorched Happiness screengrab yamanakanash.net/scorched_happiness/ WEB3DART2005 WEB3DART is an exhibition aimed at presenting a selection of the best 3D works in the period 1999-2005. The selection of 2005 online 3D works is juried by Prof. Karel Dudesek, Head of the Postgraduate Course at the College of Design and Communication, Kent, UK, Melentie Pandilovski, Director of the Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia, Taylor Nuttall, Director of the Folly, Lancaster, UK, and Martin Schmitz, Germany. The selection features a range of artistic, research, commercial and student projects. The participants throughout the past years have come from various countries such as Australia, Brazil, United States, United Kingdom, Belgium, Macedonia, Latvia, Netherlands, Germany, Slovenia, Thailand, Canada, Italy, Bulgaria, and France. The exhibition of WEB3DART is, until now, the only international show of its kind, and at its home domain http://www.web3dart.org it has become the biggest collection of three dimensional art and design sites ever assembled. Participants have come from a broad range of countries including Australian artists Melinda Rackham, Adam Nash, Martin Thompson, Jason Nelson. The WEB3DART projects are selected on the basis of it's operational functionality, the content within the 3D visualisation, and its innovation towards the use of 3D in creative works of artists and designers. Web3dArt has been presented worldwide Ð 1999: VRML ART show in Paderborn, Germany, and Museum of the City of Skopje, Macedonia; 2000: in Berlin at the Transmediale; the 2000 VRML-ART Expo at the SIGGRAPH ART SHOW in New Orleans; its presentation at The Computer Art Festival in Maribor, Slovenia; Web3dArt 2002 at The Media Centre, ICA, London, the Web3dArt 2003 show in Saint Malo, France, 2004 Monterey, California. The Web3dArt 2005 exhibition was first presented at the International Web3D Symposium at the University of Wales, Bangor, 29 March-1 April 05. Further info web3dart.org image WEB3DART2005 screengrab E t h e r W o r l d s Catalogue Essay by Melentie Pandilovski Out of the Body Encounters Opening 6 pm 14 July - 13 August 2005 Out of the Body Encounters exhibits the work of three artists. LYNNE SANDERSON   Lucid Touch ALEXANDER R. TITZ & MAJA SOKOLOVA   The I From Yesterday DENNIS DEL FAVERO   Deep Sleep LYNNE SANDERSON Lucid Touch Lynne Sanderson is an Adelaide-based digital artist who began her career in 1991 exhibiting in dance clubs. She has since exhibited widely nationally and internationally including at the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Biennale of Electronic Art Perth (BEAP), Museum of Modern Art NYC, and T.V.E Metropolis, Spain. Lucid Touch is an interactive sculpture that induces emotion by contagion through using an affective feedback loop to control the flow of a dream. In dreams we are confronted with distorted entities from an emotional memory circuit. Fleeting experiences of a secret world. A flow of desire and mood that initiates emotion. In Lucid Touch, through the sense of touch, bio-electrical arousal levels from the human body are altering the stream of a dream experience. The participant controls the mood of a simulated dream and the digital dreamer controls the participant's emotional state. There is an electrical connection, a primal biological feedback. The interactive experience of Lucid Touch stems from Lynne Sanderson's years of research and collaboration with the Centre for Sleep Research, University of South Australia, and the allure to the sense of touch within physical interactivity. Over the years Lynne has become progressively fascinated with the mind space in the dream world and the scientific methods of sleep research. This has led her to conduct her own experiments, watching the brainwave patterns of sleeping subjects. image Lynne Sanderson Lucid Touch 2005. Click here for a larger image Credits Lynne Sanderson - concept, direction, dream collection, interface design and visual production Peter Sansom - code, sound design Olivia Pallotta - biomedical engineer - custom electronics Cameron Van den Heuvel from the Centre for Sleep Research - sleep scientist - sleep lab support and dream coding Further information about the works of Lynne Sanderson at sustenance.va.com.au/cv.html Presented as a part of South Australian Living Artists Week (SALA) Lucid Touch development assisted by the Australian Government through the New Media Arts Board of the Australia Council. Production assisted by the South Australian Government through Arts SA ALEXANDER R. TITZ & MAJA SOKOLOVA The I From Yesterday Projection, movement and sound are the central design elements of this work by German-based artists, Alexander R. Titz and Maja Sokolova. A video of life-size human forms are projected onto glass to which speakers, following a set of anatomic rules, are attached. The sound recordings taken by Titz and Sokolova are of a human in a state of coma. Where does life end? Where does death begin? DENNIS DEL FAVERO Deep Sleep Deep Sleep (2004) explores the extraordinary events surrounding the notorious Chelmsford psychiatric hospital in Sydney during the 1970s, taking as its starting point a 1993 newspaper article detailing how at least 40 people died while undergoing Deep Sleep Therapy, at Chelmsford psychiatric hospital between 1962 and 1979. The therapy, invented by the Hospital's Director, Dr. Harry Bailey, formerly State Director General of Psychiatry, involved putting patients suffering from depression, anxiety and insomnia into a coma for six weeks. Though concerns were raised about practices at the hospital over many years, no serious investigation was undertaken until an Australian Royal Commission was finally appointed in 1990 which recommended that three of the four doctors responsible be prosecuted. The fourth, Dr. Bailey, committed suicide in 1985 after undergoing deep sleep therapy himself. Deep Sleep evokes these events by focusing on the fatal relationship between Dr Bailey and his lover, a former patient of Chelmsford. Dennis Del Favero has presented numerous video and photographic exhibitions nationally and internationally. He is Co-director of the iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research at the University of New South Wales, Artist-in-Resident at ZKM and co-editor of the iCinema Digital Arts Edition series published by iCinema, ZKM and International University Bremen. He was recently awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship. Fantasmi, Del Favero's exhibition at Sprengel Museum, Hannover, in May 2005 (which featured Deep Sleep previously premiered at Implant Art, Bonn in the DVD-ROM version and at Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich in the three channel Video Installation version) was nominated as a European exhibition highlight by Germany's leading art website, Kunstaspekte. Dennis is represented by Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich, and Mori Gallery, Sydney. Further info www.icinema.unsw.edu.au Opening 6 pm 25 August - 24 September 2005 Sarah CrowEST   Get rid of yourself! NOW! South Australian artist, Sarah CrowEST, shows a lo-fi humorous approach to solving the dilemmas of bodily dissatisfaction. The cute/pathetic creature engages in a series of home beauty treatments involving body sculpture and surface enhancement. The work doesn't seek to critique all attempts at aesthetic improvement but considers the inherent potential for both pleasure and disgust. The Joy of Beauty is a response to the situation where a multi-million dollar advertising industry promotes an often singular, ideal view of beauty and offers an alternative of sorts! Matthew BRADLEY   Weet-Bix Kid The Weet-Bix Kid is a kind of diary of delinquency. It describes the journey of a solitary figure through the urban landscape and records the marginal behaviour engendered in the arc of delinquency. The project stages or documents behaviour that ranges from manic playfulness and cheeky irreverence to reckless and often illegal acts. Sometimes the work is a literal record of the characters path through space. In one of the video works: 5-9 May Dawn, someone breaking into a sports field at dawn and climbing a 30 metre light tower, with no safety equipment, is all recorded via helmet-cam. Delinquent behaviour is usually thought of as destructive, what really interests me is that this character avoids a descent into total chaos, perhaps because there is an inherent creativity to this journey. The path through space must be created, it does not pre-exist. Matthew Bradley 2005 Matthew Bradley is an Adelaide-based emerging artist whose exhibitions include Primavera at the MCA, Z at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, and a solo show at the new Downtown space, as well as at the Project Space, Contemporary Art Centre of SA. Opening 6pm 6 October - 5 November 2005 GENIA CHEF   Gloria Novi Saeculi (Glory of the New Century) Genia Chef works in the fields of objects, installation, painting, and 3-dimensional computer works. Some of his more important works includes the series of Fairy-Tales as Children-Paradise. After art objects, Genia Chef turned his attention to painting and is known as one of the most prolific among the Russian artists. NICHOLAS FOLLAND   Doldrum Formerly from Adelaide and now based in Sydney, Nicholas Folland is an installation artist. His work examines the relationship between the domestic or interior spaces of urban environments and the border zones associated with the perceived limits of these controlled regions, resulting in the reinterpretation of the outside world in a form that is both tangible and reconciled. He was awarded a 1999 Samstag International Visual Art Scholarship and his work was exhibited in the 2004: Australian Culture Now, National Gallery of Victoria. Click image to view video in a new window. Opening 6pm 17 November - 17 December 2005 MILICA TOMIC   I am Milica Tomic The work of Belgrade-based artist, Milica Tomic, centres on issues of responsibility, political violence, nationality and identity, with particular attention to the tensions between personal experience and media constructed images. I am Milica Tomic is a personal meditation on the historical, political and religious overtones of building identity through language. She stands before us in a white slip and starts to speak: "I am Milica Tomic. I am a German." She repeats this 64 times, substituting different languages and nations each time. For each sentence a new wound appears on her body. Milica Tomic has a degree in Philosophy from Belgrade University, and has published numerous articles on contemporary philosophy and psychoanalytic theory. She works primarily in video and photography and has exhibited in a wide international context including the Venice Biennale, Sao Paulo Biennale, and Manifesta-the European Biennial of Contemporary Art. Further info at http://www.milicatomic.com/ Bianca Barling   Electric Ladyland Bianca Barling is a recent honours graduate of the South Australian School of Art. Practising in a hybrid arena of video, installation, photography and performance, her work is remarkable for its lush production values and sentimental aesthetics. Barling's work has always had an uneasy edge, not quite pure irony, although it is ironic with a lot of depth hiding in its sexy, gloss surface. Bianca Barling has exhibited at the Substation gallery in Singapore, Art Gallery of South Australia and at The Project Space at the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia. She was the recipient of the Hill Smith Malaysia Airlines Travel Prize and the 2003 Adelaide Critics Circle Emerging Artist Award and has just returned from Europe after completing an internship with the renowned UK-based interactive media group, Blast Theory, supported by the New Media Arts Board of the Australia Council. previous screen    screen top