Videos - 2009

Something Awful forum members: Goontower

30 January - 7 March 2009
ACP Lounge - Free Admission

Project conceived and assembled by Julio Herrera / Hungry Hippo

Members of the infamous 'Something Awful Forums' decided to build the tallest tower on the internet. Subversive, humorous and often quite juvenile, each level of this 400 story tower represents the work of a different contributor.

www.goontower.com

IMAGE © Hungry Hippo Goontower 2008

Hidde van Schie: Nervus Opticus

30 January - 7 March 2009
ACP Lounge - Free Admission

Nervus Opticus is a stop-motion animation by the Dutch visual artist Hidde van Schie. The nervus opticus is the nerve that sends light impulses to the brain where the impulses are formed into an image. In this video the paper-cutouts of old scientific and comic illustrations come to life and form stories around universal themes such as birth, death and evolution.

IMAGE © Hidde van Schie Nervus Opticus 2008

Irnin Khan: You are a Regurgitator

30 January - 7 March 2009
ACP Lounge - Free Admission

In her video You are a Regurgitator, Irnin Khan playfully critiques consumer culture and its penetration into the language of the everyday. As we increasingly plagiarise the words we speak from advertising jingles, game shows and cheesy pop songs, she asks "Are our lives being sucked into a wasteland of clichés?" Like the sparkling food wrappers and waste products they are constructed from, Irnin Khan's artworks are pop culture proverbs that look great but ultimately amount to nothing.

IMAGE © Irnin Khan You are a Regurgitator 2008

Kate Bernauer, Lee Anantawat, Sarah Martin: Musical Animations

12 March - 25 April 2009
ACP Lounge - Free Admission

Whimsical and lighthearted, these works have been created a using hand drawn images, stop frame animation and simple techniques, they celebrate the home-made aesthetic in an era of high tech video clips.

IMAGE © Kate Bernaurer The Novel 2006

Head On semi-finalists

1 May - 6 June 2009
ACP Lounge - Free Admission

From over three thousand entries in this innovative portrait prize, forty finalists are selected to exhibit their work at the ACP and another one hundred and fifty entrants are selected to show their work as part of a video presentation in the ACP lounge.

IMAGE © Lisa Wiltse The Cubby Sisters 2007

The Gene-erator

1 May - 6 June 2009
ACP Lounge - Free Admission

Face your genealogical future with the aid of our 'Gene-erator' photobooth. The booth photographs you and then prints out an image of your future offspring. ACP takes no responsibility for ugly babies, relationship breakups, or lack of scientific rigour.

IMAGE © The Gene-erator 2009

Sleek Geeks

12 June - 28 June 2009
ACP Lounge - Free Admission

We present the winners of the University of Sydney's Sleek Geeks Science Eureka Prize 2008. This prize is for a short video that communicates a scientific concept in a way that is accessible and entertaining while painlessly increasing the public's understanding of science.

IMAGE © Table Cape Primary School Eureka! 2008

Penelope Cain: Sink or Swim

12 June - 28 June 2009
ACP Lounge - Free Admission

Accompanying Penelope Cain’s work in the ACP foyer, in these video works a squad of business suited swimmers endlessly navigate an aquatic environment. Cain’s work obliquely critiques global economics and the corporate imperative to eat or be eaten.

IMAGE © Penelope Cain Sink or Swim 2009

Acts of Disobedience

17 July - 22 August 2009
ACP Lounge - Free Admission

Back in the old days 'Street Art' went by the less fancy name of 'Graffiti' and it's perpetrators misspent their days doing their very best to get up the nose of State Rail security guards and property developers. These days Street Artists are a much more sophisticated lot, drawing our attention to social issues and asking us to reflect on our own values.

Will Coles: Obsolescence and Memories

Will Coles' interventions in Sydney street life have been tripping us up and blocking our footpaths since 2005. His concrete renderings of obsolete consumer goods like televisions, mobile phones and VHS players are a playful commentary on our fetishisation of technology, on wastefulness, on obsolescence, and ultimately on the bittersweet emptiness of urban consumer life.

willcoles.com

Sonya Gee: The Matchbox Project

Each week, a decorated matchbox with a tiny present hidden inside is left by Sydney artist Sonya Gee (and sometimes willing friends) somewhere in her travels. The Matchbox Project blog started two years ago and has been updated once a week (pretty much) since then. Over time, the blog has taken on a life of it's own; Gee's charming and optimistic chronicle of life in the city makes engaging reading in itself.

blurty.com/users/matchboxproject

Bababa International: Within The World

Bababa International (Tom Melick. Ivan Ruhle, Stephen Russel and Giles Thackway) are a collective of highly ambitious and well intentioned young artists who have yet to clearly define (at least to me) the purpose of their mission. Their ongoing project Within the World involves a small wooden house installed in a variety of environments in which participants can stand and look out at the world.

bababainternational.com

IMAGE © Will Coles Remotes & Mobile Phones 2009
IMAGE © Sonya Gee The Matchbox Project 2009

Cicada: MOB

28 August - 10 October 2009
ACP Lounge - Free Admission

MOB takes its inspiration from the monumental forces, and emergent behaviours of the human crowd. Using barely manipulated footage of tiny Chinese 'white cloud' Tetra fish swimming in a tank, MOB is an abstracted world which explores and parallels the crowd experience.

IMAGE © Nick Ritar, Cicada MOB 2006

Brie Trennery: Lal Lal

28 August - 10 October 2009
ACP Lounge - Free Admission

Lal Lal Falls is a scenic reserve north-west of Melbourne that had its heyday during the Gold Rush. Brie Trennery's documentation of this once a popular tourist destination makes creepy yet strangely compelling viewing.

IMAGE © Brie Trennery Lal Lal 2007

WAR Movies

16 October - 21 November 2009
ACP Lounge - Free Admission

This selection of videos examines the impact war has had on people around the world. In order to tell these stories, photographers and filmmakers have placed themselves in situations that are emotionally confronting, ethically complex and physically dangerous.

IMAGE © Stephen Dupont Suicide Bombing, Afghanistan 2008

My Pictures, My Past

16 October - 21 November 2009
ACP Lounge - Free Admission

This short documentary brings to light the traumatic impact of war on children in Cambodia. In the early 1990's orphans at the Sunrise Village were asked to draw their happiest and saddest moments. Twelve years later producers Sarah Linton and Sabine Albers reconnect these children with those images.

IMAGE © Sabine Albers My Pictures, My Past 2009

Jess MacNeil: Aqueous Trace

27 November - 13 December 2009
ACP Lounge - Free Admission

Buffeted by wind and ocean waves, and traversed by mysteriously invisible lap swimmers, in Jess MacNeil's painterly video work Aqueous Trace, an ocean pool becomes a continually oscillating, collapsing, disintegrating colour field.

IMAGE © Jess MacNeil Aqueous Trace 2009 courtesy the artist and Gallery Barry Keldoulis