AGNSW launches digital iPad publication

The Art Gallery of New South Wales has launched a digital iPad publication to accompany the Anne Landa Award for video and new media arts 2013 exhibition The Space Between Us. The publication explores the relationship between video and performance art through videos, audio clips, still images, essays and curator interviews.

The Space Between Us features works by Lauren Brincat, Alicia Frankovich, Laresa Kosloff, Angelica Mesiti, Kate Mitchell, James Newitt and Christian Thompson.

"Each artist approaches the idea of performance from a different angle, " says curator Charlotte Day. "A number of the artists are there performing directly, a few of the artists are creating situations in which performances occur whereas others are drawing on a rich history of performance and how they might create a kind of space in which we can come together."

The winner of this year's $25,000 Anne Landa Award will be announced later this month.
Image: Alicia Frankovich's The Opportune Spectator, 2013

Anne Landa Award exhibition opens at the Art Gallery of New South Wales

The fifth Anne Landa Award exhibition opens tonight at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The space between us considers the relation between video and performance and features work by Lauren Brincat, Alicia Frankovich, Laresa Kosloff, Angelica Mesiti, Kate Mitchell, James Newitt and Christian Thompson. The artists are all eligible for the the acquisitive award of AUD$25,000, which sees the winning work enter the Gallery's collection.

Guest curator Charlotte Day says: "The seven artists are connected through their interest in the artist as performing body, the artist as creator /director of performances, and the viewer's role in relation to the works and as active participant. The resurgence in performative art continues out of a desire to question established exhibition and viewing habits, as well as the relative distinctions and distances between artist, artwork and audience." Read More...

Curator finds his art in the slow, contemplative lane

This link takes you to a short article in the Sydney Morning Herald on Justin Paton's UNGUIDED TOURS exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Image: Justin Paton, curator of the UNGUIDED TOURS exhibition, in front of Ian Burns' From orbit

Unguided Tours: Anne Landa Award for video and new media arts

The Anne Landa Award exhibition opened last night at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Selected by Christchurch-based curator and author Justin Paton, the artists in the Unguided Tours exhibition lineup (and contenders for the video and new media award of AUD25,000) include Auckland-based artist Jae Hoon Lee.

Here is a short introduction to the show from the AGNSW website:

'Where to'? From a plane halfway round the globe, to a poetic walk through suburban backstreets, to a virtual voyage through a digitally constricted world, the 2011 Anne Landa Award offers a series of 'unguided tours' through some rich imaginative territory. Using video, computer animation, kinetic sculpture and even an immersive game environment, the seven contemporary artists in Unguided Tours explore the lure of other places, the anxieties and pleasures of travel, and the unexpected rewards of getting lost.

Image: Jae Hoon Lee, Becoming (2002), archival pigment ink on Ilford paper

Jae Hoon Lee in the lineup for the Anne Landa Award for video and new media arts 2011

The fourth in the series of biennial Anne Landa Award exhibitions that began at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2004, this year's edition is guest curated by Christchurch-based curator and author Justin Paton and features the artists Rachel Khedoori (Australia/USA), David Haines and Joyce Hinterding (Australia), Jae Hoon Lee (Korea/New Zealand), Charlie Sofo (Australia) and Ian Burns (Australia/USA). 

All artists re eligible for the the acquisitive award of AUD$25,000, which sees the winning work enter the Gallery's collection.

Image: Jae Hoon Lee, Hadjodae (2010), digitally collaged photograph, 1500 x 2000mm