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21
February - 23 March,
2003
Tue - Sun: 11.00am - 6.00pm
Galleries One, Two and Foyer
The street, the bush and architectural fantasy
collide in this exhibition exploring notions of
place, time and distance. Daniel Crooks'
otherworldy panoramas collapse time and space into
an extended perceptual instant whilst Karl-Peter
Gottschalk's images of an alienated urban
populace "deserted by joy" slip unnoticed across
the decades. Emil Goh's delightfully
personal video and photo-works - models of wit and
brevity - playfully explore the streets of Asia and
Australia. Meanwhile, Katalin Bayer and
Ferenc Varga take bland modernist high-rise
housing and imbue it with a new and surprising
life…
Katalin
Bayer and Ferenc
Varga
The four digital photographs that make up Katalin
Bayer and Ferenc Varga's Views are part of
an ongoing project of urban exploration,
interrogation and imagination. For Bayer and Varga,
architecture is a medium that possesses a social
and emotional resonance comparable to that of other
cultural forms such as cinema, literature and
music. Defying the laws of gravity and perspective,
the familiar modernist buildings of Views
strike angles that are at once playful and
critical. They suggest aspects of the built
environment that look beyond concerns of form and
function to question architecture's past and
present, while hinting at a potentially utopian
future.
Katalin Bayer (b: Hungary, 1966) and Ferenc Varga
(b: Hungary, 1968) both have long histories in
film, photography, journalism and design. They have
been working collaboratively since graduating from
RMIT University, Melbourne in 2001, and live and
work in Sydney.
Daniel
Crooks
The distorted figures and streetscapes of Daniel
Crooks' Time Slice are products of precise
experiments in time and space. Images recorded by a
digital camera over a period of time are divided
into segments. Each segment is several pixels wide
and represents one second of time. These slices are
then reassembled into long panoramas. The images
shown here are produced by two different methods:
either filming from a tram as the streets of
Melbourne rush by; or by fixing the camera in
place, and taking in the movement of people and
vehicles in the city streets. The resultant
distortions - loping, elongated, sometimes
shuddering, at other times fluid - suggest the
complexity of motion through time and space and
evoke the real rhythms of the city as a space for
living.
Daniel Crooks (b: 1973) is a new media artist who
studied graphic design in Auckland before
relocating to Melbourne in 1994 to study animation
at the Victorian College of the Arts. He is the
recipient of numerous awards including the City of
Stuttgart Prize for animation and the Dendy Short
Film Award, as well as the Australia Council New
Media Fellowship. His work has been exhibited
widely locally and internationally. He lives and
works in Melbourne.
Emil
Goh
The subjects of Emil Goh's photographs and short
videos are almost always unaware of his presence.
Sleeping, strolling, shopping, or simply looking at
something else, they go about their day to day
business unaware that they are being photographed -
even pursued - for one of Goh's charming vignettes,
tributes to the marvelous in the everyday. Goh
shares this combination of distancing and
wonderment with the tourist, an unassuming role
that he plays to the hilt. Wandering through the
cities of the world, Goh has apparently mastered
the knack of going unnoticed in order to capture
what so often goes unnoticed.
After studying at Sydney College of the Arts, Emil
Goh (b: Malaysia, 1966) won a NSW Ministry of the
Arts Scholarship to study his MFA at Goldsmiths
College in London. Since then he has been artist in
residence at the Hayward Gallery London and Hong
Kong University, and has exhibited at the Art
Gallery of New South Wales, Laforet Museum Kokura
and the National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur. He
lives and works in Sydney.
Emil Goh appears courtesy of Boutwell Draper
Gallery, Sydney.
Karl-Peter
Gottschalk
A work-in-progress now nearly twenty years in the
making, Karl-Peter Gottschalk's A Poverty of
Desire is a love-hate document of the most
isolated city in the world: Perth, Western
Australia. The Perth of Gottschalk's quotidian
pedestrian melodramas is a metropolis whose urban
centre has been given over completely to commerce,
labour and administration, - or at least
unaffordable. Alienated figures, emerging from the
shadows of skyscrapers to squint in the glare of
the southern sun, dart across the field of vision,
their paths crossing but never meeting. While the
selection featured here spans the years 1985 to
1991, a time when Perth, like most Australian
cities, had yet to experience an inward drift of
population and upward climb of price tag, its
unyielding criticism of the effect of soulless town
planning on human experience remains acutely
relevant.
Photographer, filmmaker, writer and lecturer
Karl-Peter Gottschalk studied Fine Arts before
undertaking postgraduate studies in communications
theory and philosophy at Murdoch University. His
work has been shown at the Art Gallery of Western
Australia, and he recently participated in the
inaugural exhibition of Artrage's Breadbox Gallery.
He lives and works in Perth.
Image Credits:
• Katalin Bayer & Ferenc Varga,
Balance, 2002
• Daniel Crooks, Static No 3,
2002
• Emil Goh, Sleeping, 2002
• Karl-Peter Gottschalk, A Poverty of
Desire (detail),
2002
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