Moving Images/Expanding Space: an exchange between Melbourne and Milan
CURATED BY
Kyle Weise e Simone Hine
WORKS BY
Timothy Casten e Jacqui Shelton, Antoinette J. Citizen, Simone Hine, Claire Robertson, e Polly Stanton
WITH THE PATRONAGE OF
Comune di Milano
From 11.02.2014 to 23.02.2014
Project supported by Arts Victoria
The exhibition presents the work of six Australian artists whose video research moves at the border with cinematic language. Starting from the various aesthetic, conceptual, and technological intersections that cinema and contemporary art share, the exhibition reflects on the role that cinema plays in the construction of memories, perceptions, and reveries. Its images and codes permeate our daily lives, becoming part of a common imaginary, to the point of constituting a filter through which we interpret and read reality.
Taking inspiration from the Archivio Video di Careof, Simone Hine and Kyle Weise reflect on the nature of the archive, not necessarily composed of material works. The new archive they build is indeed made up of imaginaries and shared experiences evoked and produced by cinema. Through the works of Timothy Casten and Jacqui Shelton, Antoinette J. Citizen, Simone Hine, Claire Robertson, and Polly Stanton, the archive exists no longer only in the cinematic realm, but also in the shared memory of the public, as a collection of common memories.
The presented works use these common languages to re-imagine cinema, transforming the spatiality and temporality of these usually linear narratives.
The project is part of a broader focus on the independent Australian reality that Careof explores throughout 2014 through exhibitions, lectures, and video screenings, inviting some of the independent realities from the city of Melbourne to spend a residency period at FDV Residency Program. The first invited space is Screen Space, directed by Kyle Weise and Simone Hine; subsequent collaborations will be with KINGS Ari and Un.Magazine.
Each of these collaborations is aimed at an exchange that will allow young Italian artists and curators to spend a residency period in Melbourne in 2015.
The exhibition will conclude on Sunday, February 23 at 12:00 PM with a public conversation with the project curators during an Australian Breakfast at FDV Residency.
Performing Archive is a project born on the occasion of Taking Careof that uses the archive to move practices and initiatives in order to consider its most representative aspects of display, content, and language, and to contemplate historical memory to actualize and expand it.
Bio
Screen Space is an independent non-profit space in Melbourne that since 2010 promotes screen-based visual research or work incorporating projection or moving images by Australian and international artists in a professional context. In general, Screen Space is interested in any form of work dedicated to screen culture.
Residency
Kyle Weise and Simone Hine
16.01 > 28.02.2014
In collaboration with: Screen Space and Arts Victoria
FDV Residency Program hosts Kyle Weise and Simone Hine, directors of Screen Space, an independent non-profit space in Melbourne that since 2010 promotes screen-based visual research or work incorporating projection or moving images by Australian and international artists in a professional context.
The research period in Milan was aimed at producing the exhibition Moving pictures/Expanding Space: an exchange between Melbourne and Milan.
The project is part of a broader focus on the independent Australian scene that Careof has explored throughout 2014 through exhibitions, lectures, video screenings, and residencies at FDV Residency.
Meanwhile, the two curators, in collaboration with Careof, launched the first open call addressed to curators under 35, aimed at enabling the winner to realize a video exhibition at Screen Space.
