Starkwhite et al. at Momentum

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16mm silent film

Audio by DJ HOUSO 'praising god' 1990 (NZ)

Transfer to digital 2010

Presented by Starkwhite et al. at Momentum/Sydney (May 2010), an art forum focusing on video/film, new media, performance and sound

Momentum / Sydney

Momentum got underway yesterday in a beautiful old building near Sydney's Carriageworks. The upstairs space is set up up for the two-day Momentum Forum, with a large open space for performance. Downstairs the organisers abandoned initial plans to create booths, opting for open space with wall-mounted screens for projections and 47" LCDs clamped to columns. Not surprisingly the floor looks more like an adjunct to the Biennale of Sydney than an art fair, but this in line with the orgainsers aim "to re-imagine the art fair into a more sustainable and innovative model", one that embraces work such as video and performance, that rarely find its way into conventional art fairs.

On day one we presented video works by Stella Brennan (South Pacific), Hye Rim Lee (Crystal City Spun), Jae Hoon Lee (A leaf) and Grant Stevens (Crushing and In the Beyond).
Images from the top: Hye Rim Lee's Crystal City Spun and Jae Hoon Lee's A Leaf, Stella Brennan's South Pacific, Grant Stevens' In the Beyond, and the panel for the forum session on re-imaging the art fair

Momentum / Sydney

Today we head to Sydney to participate in Momentum, an international forum for contemporary video art, new media and performance. The event takes place from 12 - 15 May 2010 in a building adjacent to Carriageworks. The image above shows one of the two floors being used, but in a raw state prior to fitout

Breaking with convention

In May we'll be heading to Sydney to participate in Momentum: Sydney, a new art fair focusing on video, new media and performance. Co-founding directors Charles Merewether, Johann Nowak and Rachel Rits-Volloch say: "The aim of Momentum is to create a worldwide network of practitioners, influential decision makers and theorists to address on an annual basis across different locations, the evolving concerns of commonly marginalised art practices. Momentum will be globally-based, developing sites of engagement across Australia, Europe, Asia and the Americas".

Featuring 20 invited galleries from around the world, along with collectors, curators, artists, writers, experts and innovators there "to generate a participatory environment", the first edition of Momentum is scheduled for 12 - 15 May 2010. It will take place in a Sydney industrial space, transformed by Ai Weiwei into an immersive space for the presentation and viewing of video art and performance, and for the professional dialogue which the organisers say is integral to this forum. The event also coincides with the opening week of the Biennale of Sydney.

Image: Carriageworks, a centre for visual culture in Sydney and venue for Momentum