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Parallax
The Performance Paradigm in Photography
Featuring Heidrun Lohr
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3 March - 15 April 2012
Tue - Fri: 12.00 - 7.00pm, Sat & Sun 10.00am - 6.00pm
Opening preview 2 March 6-8pm
All welcome
Gallery 1, 2&4
Parallax is a simple enough problem for photography: the image you make depends on your viewing angle. But when you add the variable of the moving body in performance, the parallax factor multiplies to a point where the camera captures something no human eye will ever see in any other way.
Heidrun Lohr, the celebrated photographer of live performance, is famous for her active use of the camera around the stage. More than documents of a vanishing work, the images open up a whole terrain of performance photography, where the gestures and expressions of subjects from all walks of life perform a sense of identity. An identity that can be as multiple and various as the positions of the camera.
Heidrun Lohr’s career began in Munich and Berlin but for over 25 years now she has worked in Sydney. Her photographs capture some of the most bizarre, outrageous and beautiful moments in experimental performance in this city.
Image © Heidrun Lohr Creatures Ourselves, Nikki Heywood at Performance Space 1992Sascha Weidner: Unveiled
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3 March - 15 April 2012
Tue - Fri: 12.00 - 7.00pm, Sat & Sun 10.00am - 6.00pm
Opening preview 2 March 6-8pm
All welcome
Gallery 3
Investigations of polarity and the interplay of contrasting locales inform Sascha Weidner’s work relating the urban and non-urban, the nocturnal and daytime. What Weidner finds is as yet unknown but will be charged with tension as he hits the ground running whilst making new work during an intense 2 week residency period.
Unveiled combines research, residency (COFA) and exhibition. The final gallery presentation, combining object and installation encourages the audience to investigate, touch and handle the works in darkroom developing trays.
As Weidner says “The spirit of the old photographic process will be in the air.”
This will be a unique opportunity for visitors to interact with a photography installation. The immediacy of the images, capturing local moments in recent weeks, embodies the transient and time- based undertones of the installation.
Based in Berlin, Weidner is in Australia for his residency at COFA. Unveiled is funded and partnered by the ACP, Goethe Institute and COFA. It sees the return of Weidner to ACP, who featured in Hijacked II - Australia & Germany: toured by the Australian Centre for Photography.
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