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In
The Habit of Dwelling: Photography and Video from
Wales
December,
1998
Tue - Sun: 11.00am - 6.00pm
Gallery One
Toril Brancher, Paul Cabuts, Tim Williams and
Maria Wilson
'In The Habit of Dwelling', curated by ACP
Program Manager Blair French, presents a diverse
range of work in photography and video ranging from
both colour and black and white landscape
photographs, through documentary testaments to lost
mining communities and energetic and edgy
documentation of teenage life, to finally a video
rendition of familial oral history. Work in the
exhibition communicates something of specific
communities under pressure - closed collieries,
economically threatened rural communities,
teenagers facing a future of small-town
unemployment lines - but does so with a humility,
humour and respect that conveys a sense of strength
in community and an awareness of the potential
energy that comes from being ever more connected to
and in dialogue with the rest of the world. The
work dwells productively both within and upon its
place of origin.
'In The Habit of Dwelling' in presented as part of
/New South Wales, with the support of Wales Art
International' (a partnership between the British
Council in Wales and the Arts Council of
Wales).
Toril Brancher's large scale colour photographs
portray the lives of teenagers in a small town,
following the restricted pattern of their social
lives from the private spaces of their bedrooms
through to cramped living room parties and the
public realm of the playground and riverbank after
dark. Paul Cabuts has two series of small colour
photographs document the memorials erected in
memory of closed coal pits, as well as the coal
tips which dominate the South Wales' landscape to
the point of having become nature. Tim Williams
large scale black and white photographs depict
small villages at night, at distance, conveying the
current sense of threat and isolation to rural ways
of life through their subtle light / dark
contrasts. In her video work "Jam on it" Maria
Wilson relates a small fragment of family history,
disclosing in the telling the manner in which such
histories become distorted, and all the more
valuable for that.
Image Credits:
• Paul Cabuts, Monument to Coal,
1997
"I
Am A Thief"
Gallery Two
Colin Duncan
Colin Duncan is a Melbourne-based artist whose
recent video installations have explored conditions
of blindness, blindness and sleep. Duncan's work
often draws the viewer into a discrete environment
where subtle visual and aural elements create an
experience which draws attention to the very
processes of perception themselves - what we
register as light and darkness, the sounds we hear
in comparison to the voices in our heads. This new
work explores also Duncan's interest in how we
experience public and private space differently, as
well as how they can become confused or merged with
one-another. In this work car interiors have been
filmed surreptitiously at night, the camera acting
like a voyeur to peer into and document a space we
consider and treat as private, despite their being
visually open to others passing by.
Image credits:
• Colin Duncan. "I am a thief",
1998 (installation
detail)
Hyper-Girls
Foyer
Ani O'Neill and Lisa Reihana
Artists Ani O'Neill and Lisa Reihana are both based
in Auckland, Aotearoa (New Zealand). O'Neill is of
Cook Island descent, Reihana of Maori heritage
(Ngai Tui, Ngati Hine, Nga Pui). Both are part of a
young generation of artists in Aotearoa New Zealand
from Maori and Polynesian backgrounds who draw
together aspects of their specific cultural
heritage, of the contemporary urban society in
which they live, and sophisticated knowledge of
international art practice and theory to make work
which is at the cutting edge of the development of
a contemporary cosmopolitan Pacific culture, which,
as Hyper-Girls attests, is funky and energetic.
Hyper-Girls is presented in association with
'Pacific-Wave: Festival of Contemporary Pacific
Arts'.
Image credits:
• Ani O'Neill and Lisa Reihana,
Hyper-Girls
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