URBANau Berlin 2013
Artist residency at Stattbad Wedding
The Secret Life Of Buildings (collaboration with bIld architecture)
continues a series of works investigating the collaborative potential of photogra}phic and spatial
practices.
A collaboration that attempts to re-frame the typical, linear relationship of :
Architect > photographer : object > documentation.
Into a true collaborative process of:
Architect <> photographer: artifice <> real(site)
Utilizing the exposed blank fire-walls of Berlin’s quintessential Stadthaus building typology as the site for intervention, the artists are entering the “territory” of street art. A series of staged photoshoots imagines the activities occurring within the private domains within each building. The artists staged rougue projections onto the firewalls, altering buildings, erasing walls, to reveal their inner life.
A hybrid of street art, photography and architectural intervention, “The Private Life Of Buildings” blurs the line of urban public and private domains; introducing a range of inner stories into the street life of the city.
URBANau Berlin 2013
Artist residency at Stattbad Wedding
Just Like Swimming (collaboration with bIld architecture)
The project site is within Berlin’s Stattbad Wedding one of two disused and drained swimming pools.
The installation references its original
function utilising light
and smoke and moving images to ‘re-fill’ the pool, magnifying the experience of a separated space.
The interaction of the projected images of underwater footage of swimmers and the artificial fog, creates a ‘light-datum’ at the original water level, carefully calibrated to correspond to the level of the water in the under-water footage creating a dynamic interplay of mobile fog currents and the shimmering light of
the water surface as seen from below in the video projections.
The effect is that the viewer entering the pool is progressively enveloped by the shimmering light datum until completely below the ‘water’ level,
disassociating the viewer from the surrounding spaces, you enter a separate zone, a submerged region of light and image - the space within the
photograph.
'Behind this wall 2' video installation and spatial extension.
'Urban AU' at Gallery Of Australian Design, Canberra 2011
“Behind this wall 2” allows the viewer to directly engage with the space of the gallery as the medium of the work itself. Picture the feeling of putting your hand to the wall and feeling it pulsate like a living creature, it is something comparable to what is happening by allowing the viewer to see through the structure in one small part, the whole of the structure becomes alive, transparent and clear in ones imagination, which will invariably spin something incredible.
In the Gallery of Australian Design the space directly behind the wall of the proposed installation is a service space, largely left raw. This service space was photographically documented, measured and recreated as an architectural model at 1:20 scale. The maquette was then filmed and projected back onto the wall within the gallery at 1:1 scale, revealing the space behind, in effect “erasing” the wall.
The oscilation between the reduced scale of the maquette and the actual scale of the gallery is deliberatly indistict, encouraging the viewer to assume the projection is a 'real' photograph of the space 'beyond the wall'. This assumption and the perception of scale within the work and and its context is shattered, when a giant mouse runs through the apparently static scene, provoking a critical reassessment of the perceived truth in image media.
'inspiration from above' site specific video installation.
'Urban AU' at Gallery Of Australian Design, Canberra 2011
'Engage: X-Ray Vision' photographic spatial extension at Bell Primary School prior to demolition.
'will you miss me when i'm gone?' Melbourne 2010
This work was a site specific installation in an old school building, before it's demolition.
A photograph, taken of the playground just beyond the blackboard wall, was enlarged to life-size and then mounted on the wall and over the blackboard, seemingly opening a window into the world outside.
It is reminiscent of being a student and daydreaming in class, thinking about the playground rather than maths, making it relevant to the formal use of the space.
It engages with the place and it's immediate surroundings, by using photography as a tool to create the illusion of a partially disappearing or transparent wall.
'Department of Immediate Archiving' direct performative photographic reality layering intervention.
TAPR 'Lazy Slum', Blindside ARI, collaborating with Six_a artists, Melbourne 2010
'Edge of the World' interactive video installation
TAPR '100 proofs the earth is not a globe'
Next Wave Festival, Melbourne 2010
'alone bath' a site specific video installation
TAPR '37 proofs', at Six_a gallery, Hobart 2009
'Degraves Street Subway' a self-referencing photo-collage installation
Platform, Frame Residency 2009
'Waiting For There' a networked intercontinental collaboration resulting in a multi layered video installation performance
Transitlounge 2008
'Behind this wall' photographic spatial extension installation
Platform, Melbourne 2008
This work photographically “cuts” a window through the exhibition space in Degraves St Subway, allowing a view into the adjoining underground parking garage. The actual space behind the wall was documented photographically and then exhibited as an extension of the space of the gallery, allowing the viewer to see beyond the walls and engaging with the site of the gallery on a different level.
'Projection Window' self referencing video projection, Collaboration with Helen Grogan, Centre For Contemporary Photography, Melbourne 2008
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'inversions' installation of self-referencing disoriented space
Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne since 2008
'1:20' site-specific photographic intervention and installation
collaboration with Ben Milbourne
Transitlounge, Berlin 2007
'1:1' site specific space extending photographic and video installation
collaboration with Ben Milbourne, Kristina Matovic, Benjamin Ducroz , Michael Prior and Martha Angharad Agostini
Transitlounge, Berlin 2007
islands:crossing, (installation view), Darwin Visual Arts Association, Soundsunusual, in collaboration with Katie Hepworth, Rob Curgenven, Anthony Magen, Sumugan Sivanesan
Darwin, Australia, 2007
nighttime photography series 'yards project' shown at Linden Centre For Contemporary Arts, Melbourne 2007
nighttime photography series 'yards project' shown at Linden Centre For Contemporary Arts, Melbourne 2007
nighttime photography series 'yards project' shown at Linden Centre For Contemporary Arts, Melbourne 2007
nighttime photography series 'yards project' shown at Linden Centre For Contemporary Arts, Melbourne 2007
nighttime photography series 'yards project' shown at Linden Centre For Contemporary Arts, Melbourne 2007
nighttime photography, River Valley, NSW, Australia 2006
nighttime photography, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2005
nighttime photography, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2005
nighttime photography, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2005
set image for theatre piece: "protestant", Fabrice Gorgerat, Jours Tranquilles, bruxelles, belgium 2006
