Videos - 2008

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S.J.Ramir: Our Voices are Mute & Man Alone

14 March - 26 April, 2008
ACP Lounge - Free Admission

Our Voices are Mute 2008
4 mins 42 secs

Following on from his trilogy Man Alone, Gulf Transmission and Departure, SJ Ramir continues to explore the existence of both internal and external landscapes, and the journeys that we make as we move through them. All footage shot by S.J.Ramir. Direction, editing and soundtrack by S.J.Ramir

Man Alone 2007
3 mins 50 secs

A lone shapeless figure sets out on a journey. The mysterious spectre travels through a series of distorted, impressionistic landscapes to an unspecified destination. A sense of bleakness and isolation underscores the narrative. All footage shot by S.J.Ramir. Direction, editing and soundtrack by S.J.Ramir

SJ Ramir is a New Zealand born artist currently based in Melbourne. Our Voices are Mute was shot on location in the Central North Island of New Zealand.

IMAGE © S.J.Ramir

Christopher Bennie: Two Ships

1 February - 19 February, 2008
ACP Lounge - Free Admission

In Two Ships, two container ships move across the horizon at different speeds. While nothing else of any consequence occurs throughout the four and a half minutes of this work, the ordinariness of the image has a comfortable and mesmerising quality. Christopher Bennie's recent short videos portray his familiar, everyday surroundings; the washing line, Brisbane river and city skyline, amusement park rides, puddles with lens flare, the artists' back and the artists' backyard. By personally responding to unremarkable environments and events, Bennie presents the repetitious, the common, the bizarre, and the ridiculous as profound in their own right.

Christopher Bennie is a New Zealand born artist currently living and working in Brisbane.

IMAGE © Christopher Bennie Two Ships 2006 (production still)

Garry Trinh: The Queue

25 July - 30 August, 2008
ACP Lounge - Free Admission

In 2005, over 300 fans lined up for over 10 hours to buy tickets to a Strokes concert. Presented as a long leisurely tracking shot, Garry Trinh's video documents the easy camaraderie and aching ennui of a night spent waiting on the pavement in Newtown.

IMAGE © Garry Trihn The Queue 2005

Elvis Richardson: Please Stand By

25 July - 30 August, 2008
ACP Lounge - Free Admission

Using coloured pencils, felt-tip pens and gouache, Elvis Richardson's witty video recreates a variety of television test cards used by local, national and international networks. Now things of the past, these reference patterns were broadcast after hours to allow engineers to tune and adjust television sets.

IMAGE © Elvis Richardson Please Stand By 2007. Courtesy James Dorahy Project Space

Video Self Portraits

5 September - 4 October, 2008
ACP Lounge - Free Admission

The current season of exhibitions at the ACP draws heavily from popular culture, and two of the works in the video lounge have been chosen from Youtube. JK Keller and Noah Kalina have been taking photographs of themselves everyday for almost ten years. In 2006 they posted their video compilations on Youtube, and became instant internet celebrities, inspiring a wave of similar projects online.

JK Keller has been photographing himself every day since 1998. According to Keller, "The whole project began out of spite. I had just purchased a digital camera, and it was rather expensive. My girlfriend asked me why I bought it and what I was going to do with it. She asked me if I was 'going to use it every day', with sarcastic inflection. I told her yes, and resolved to do so. The project began there."

Noah Kalina has also been photographing himself every day since January 11 2000. In total he has missed 22 days, plus 5 in a hard drive crash. "In the beginning of the project I didn't think it would actually be possible to do it every single day so I would forget, or go away without the camera. As time went on it became more important and more routine. I haven't missed a day in over 3 years."

Sawada's entire practice focuses on the self portrait. In the past she has created series of class portraits where she plays every student, as well the teacher, or extended photo essays documenting women in Japanese society, from fierce business to timid housewives, where again she plays every character. In this video, Sawada transforms herself over and over again, creating a kind of non-portrait, where we end up so many versions of her that we have no-sense of who she really is.

IMAGE © Noah Kalina Everyday January 11th 2000 July 31st 2006

Heresies Image Archives

10 October - 15 November, 2008
ACP Lounge - Free Admission

These image archives have been selected by renowned international curators as part of the supporting material for the Heresies exhibition. They focus on specific areas of Pedro Meyer’s diverse photographic career, ranging from major political events to intensely personal moments.

Erwin Olaf: Le Dernier Cri

21 November 2008 - 24 January 2009
ACP Lounge - Free Admission

A vision of the future that combines the suffocatingly conventional lifestyles of 1950's women's magazines with a thick coat of Hollywood hyperrealism and a final flourish of Olaf's characteristic perversity.

Erwin Olaf: Wet

21 November 2008 - 24 January 2009
Screening Tuesday to Friday only
ACP Lounge - Admission free but restricted to people 15 years and older

A mature woman is transfixed by the beauty of a young man showering. Olaf toys with our expectations and plays to our voyeuristic nature, encouraging complicity in this sexually loaded scenario.