GASP!

GASP,  a multimodal installation incorporating  found objects, sculptures, drawing and series short videos.

As part of the Southern Cross Universities Bachelor of Contemporary Visual Arts graduating students exhibition Transit 2014.

This final presentation consisted of an extensive installation over 2 rooms. Using multiple projections and television sets screening 7 new works that had been produced throughout the year, including a music video for Bessie by musician Bec Newman. Handmade pieces included a porcelain mask, wax and latex shoes, small bowls and jewellery made from human hair, exuviae and approximatley 70 drawings.

A live interactive camera captures guests image on entry presenting it back to them and making their presence a temporary part of the work.

Short films are the main body of this work ranging from two to twelve minutes in length. Documenting the mundane, the bleak and the beautiful scenarios of the everyday.

The awkwardness of human relationships and attempts in uncovering and rediscovering individual truths.

Empowering authentic selves, these are films about suggestion, memory, pleasures and pain, drawing on symbolism in both physical narrative, installation and mise en scene.

Using movement and body messaging, mime, gesture, Butoh, dance, story play, conscious and subconscious recall.

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A Suggested Gesture; a live movement/dance piece with performance artist Edda Lampis. A improvised performance as a response to light, sound and the set/space also the interaction between the performer and the artist.

Big love to cosmic goddess Clancie Flick who not only created her own mega installation of screenprinted timbers and handmade papers a work of colossal proportions, but somehow found time to help me in the set up of creating this space, played mega DJ, superb champagne pourer and an inspirational friend.

Check out more pictures in the  GASP Gallery

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