7 – 29 MAY 2010
Opening Friday May 7th, 6-8pm
FRONT GALLERY
Film That Will End in Death
Trevor Flinn
MIDDLE GALLERY
Candlelight Protestival
DongWoo Kang
SIDE GALLERY
After the Rainbow
Soda_Jerk
ARTIST FLOOR TALK
Saturday May 8th, 4pm
Trevor Flinn
Film that will end in Death is an experimental documentary film that follows a variety of individuals as they discuss their passion for, and relationship to, risk. Influenced by Errol Morris and akin to Louis Theroux’s disarmingly naive interviewing technique, Dunkeld artist Trevor Flinn focuses on a number of individuals who live in, or pass through, his part of regional Victoria. The resulting multi-channel video installation explores the idea of risk from a range of styles and perspectives, unraveling the complex nature of the subject.
The inspiring tales told within Film that will end in Death hint at universal, all encompassing truths about existence. Interspersed with these are passages of 8mm film and expressionistic sections of evocative video imagery, which hint at a darker, less rational side to these activities.
Film That Will End in Death is a unique experience; the essence of DIY documentary making by an emerging filmmaker who has created an eccentric vision of regional risk-takers.
Presented as part of the 2010 Next Wave Festival.
Bio
Trevor Flinn grew up in the small western Victorian town of Dunkeld, where he spent his childhood and secondary school years before leaving to pursue tertiary study in Melbourne. After completing a Bachelor of Fine Art (Sculpture) at the VCA in 2004, Trevor returned to Dunkeld to attempt to establish an arts practice whist working as a laboratory technician. In 2007 Trevor was accepted as one of Next Wave’s regional Kickstart artists, and in 2008 he presented his multi-media, collaborative project, The Puma, The Stranger and The Mountain, which went on to tour regionally thanks to NETS.
DongWoo Kang
None of the media outlets in Korea reported on the ‘candlelight protest/festival’ that happened in Seoul on New Years’ Eve 2008, despite there being more than 100,000 people in attendance.
Political protesting is a highly risky activity in Korea. By contrast, festivals, which are typically understood to be celebrations, have minimal risk. DongWoo Kang’s multi channel video installation hints at the possibilities and the limitations of these new social movements in Korea, where extremely serious celebrations have hit the streets…
Through a combination of footage gathered from news, internet, and amateur sources, Kang’s exhibition explores the complex ways that media control and second-hand video sources mediate our current notions of protest and democracy, and our participation in the social and political systems that shape us.
Bio
Dong Woo Kang was born in South Korea, 1984. Kang holds a Bachelor of Fine Art and Master of Fine Art from the Victorian College of the Arts. Solo exhibitions include ME at West Space, and Unidentified Characters, Seventh Gallery. He has exhibited in group exhibtions Disorientated Communication, VCA student Gallery and Making Conditions of Love, Mars Gallery.
soda_jerk
Originally commissioned by Next Wave for Next Wave Time Lapse,
Federation Square pulled After the Rainbow (2009) from exhibition on their outdoor cinema screen due to concerns over the work’s deliberate copyright
infringement. Comprised entirely from found audio and visual material,
Soda_Jerk’s sample-based practice knowingly breaches copyright law to
promote the need for legal reform. Now thoroughly at home under the
umbrella of the Next Wave 2010 Festival theme ‘NO RISK TOO GREAT’,
viewers have the chance to see the work they weren’t allowed to see at
Federation Square. Opening May 7, Soda_Jerk’s new video will screen on a continuous loop at KINGS ARI.
After the Rainbow is a single-channel video remix which investigates the
temporal dimensions of cinema. Through a re-imagining of the initial
sequence of The Wizard of Oz (1939), the fantasy world of cinema and the
reality of Judy Garland’s sad life collide in much the same way as the
worlds of Oz and Kansas in the original film. Instead of taking Dorothy
to Oz, the twister transports a young, hopeful Judy Garland into the future
where she encounters her disillusioned adult self. This is Soda_Jerk’s
second installment in ‘The Dark Matter Cycle’, a series of video remix
works that mobilise the conceptual framework of time travel to examine
the relationship of recorded media to alternate realities and the passage of
time.
Bio
Soda_Jerk (Dan & Dominique Angeloro) are Sydney-based artists who work exclusively with found footage. Their work has been exhibited at the Art Gallery of NSW, the Museum of Contemporary Art and has screened internationally in the Czech Republic, Germany, Scotland, the Netherlands, Mexico and India.
