FELTDARK: KRISTEN COLEMAN (SA) - YOU CAN SEE ME BUT I CAN'T SEE YOU
Screening from 8:00pm - Wednesday, 7th July
Artist Talks - 6:00pm
Running - 8th July 2016 - 23rd July 2016
FELTdark is viewable Wed - Sat: 6pm - 12am, Fri: 7pm - 12am
Kristen Coleman is an Adelaide based artist whose video installation practice principally considers the role of imagination and memory in the context of cinema. Using appropriated film sequences, much of her work explores the reception and experience of personal affect that is somehow tethered to the cinematic image.
You Can See Me But I Can’t See You draws away from these themes and examines the traditionally centred and distanced spectator position. Sampled from Wim Wenders’ Paris Texas, the work challenges and reverses the idea of cinematic voyeurism, an act that is inherent to the medium itself.
The predominant quality of voyeurism is that the voyeur normally doesn’t engage with the subject of their interest directly, the subject is usually unaware that they are being observed. Similarly, the conditions in which a film is screened, a darkened theatre that isolates the spectator from both screen and other movie goers, gives the illusion of looking in on a private world. In You Can See Me But I Can’t See You the viewing position becomes transposed through Natassja Kinski’s silent and relentless gaze directed straight at the spectator.
BACK GALLERY: KRISTEN COLEMAN (SA) - PARALLEL
Running - 6th April - 22nd April 2017
Sometimes we see a flicker at the edge of our vision, something in the cinematic landscape speeding past at 24 frames per second that peaks our interest, a glimpse of something familiar in the light, the scene, that somehow reminds us of our past experiences, a personal narrative that runs parallel to the narrative of a film. It is a memory, or sediments of memories, being channeled through the images into the present converging with the landscapes on film. It is as if we are time travellers from the future and our past is tethered to the cinematic landscape.
Parallel is part of a continued exploration into the cinematic landscape. When our vision intersects with a seemingly hermetic story the potential for us to find ourselves; the ability to map our experiences through the landscapes becomes apparent. Our lives emerge from the screen, entangled within a vast archive of cinema and when memory and cinematic landscapes blur together an interstice is created where a sense of place and the memory of light burns brightly.
CODED
CURATED BY KRISTEN COLEMAN (SA)
FEATURING ARTISTS: ELLIE ANDERSON (VIC), JESSICA GREEN (SA), EMMA NORTHEY (SA) & STEPHEN ROEDEL (SA)
4TH - 20TH JULY 2019
’DATA STREAMS ORGANISED THROUGH THE LANGUAGE OF CODE, ELECTRONIC NOISE AND VISUAL PERCEPTION.’
CODED is a program composed of a non-narrative electronic noise and filmic collaboration between Emma Northey and Stephen Roedel, a light installation by Jessica Green, and an encoded sound installation by Ellie Anderson. Each work engages electronic environments to transmit, disrupt and communicate via audio and visual signals.
FRONT GALLERY: JESSICA GREEN (SA) - SOLAR
Solar (2019) utilizes ambient LED lighting to investigate the perceptual qualities of daylight transferred from the sun.
Light is a pre requisite to vision and it illuminates our surroundings.
The presence or absence of daylight influences our daily activities and differing qualities of light signal changes in time, season and weather. The daily rhythms of light impact our physiological systems, mood and the natural environment.
This work highlights the relational qualities present in complex systems and the transition between different states of phenomena and experience.
BACK GALLERY: ELLIE ANDERSON (VIC) - REMORSE
reMORSE is a continuously looped two channel sound installation exploring layers of communication and interaction between artist and others.
Image: Ellie Anderson, reMORSE, 2017.
BIO
Ellie Anderson is a Melbourne based photographer and installation artist. Anderson has attended the Victorian College of the Arts, Glasgow School of Art, and recently completed her undergrad degree is sound art at RMIT. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally, being selected for a number of exhibitions including GIRL SPACE (Fran Fest) The Mill in Adelaide, IPF Photo Prize Melbourne, TRANSMISSION at Sawtooth ARI Launceston, and TAKE DRUGS STEAL CARS BUCKFAST. - A Retrospective and PINHOLE PEEPSHOW in Glasgow.
FELTDARK: EMMA NORTHEY (SA) & STEPHEN ROEDEL (SA) - CODE BREAKER
Image: Emma Northey & Stephen Roedel, Code Breaker, 2019.
'Images that throb and hum. Sounds in radiant, pulsing technicolour.
The filmic collaboration, between animator and sound artist, as an act of synesthesia: signals become light noise becomes movement.'
BIO
Unique amongst mixed media collaborations, Northey and Roedel have worked on numerous projects for art galleries, film festivals and artist run spaces. Their moving image work builds up an extraordinary density of sound and image, often re-purposing found materials with horrifying, hallucinatory and hilarious results, in films such as I Love You (review) 2004 and the Electronic Devils 1447 series.