Video artists from Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, France and Vietnam are set to exhibit a selection of digital works within Video Contemporary at Carriageworks in Sydney.
From studio exercises to slick production pieces, a range of work that covers performance documentation, animation, cinematic appropriation and more will be on display.
Video Contemporary is curated by Mark Feary from Artspace Visual Art Centre , an international residency based art centre that supports artists working in innovative ways over a number of mediums. The creative openness of Artspace has filtered into the exhibition with thematics pushed aside to allow for a limitless range of video experimentation.
This inclusive curatorial approach is a way of ensuring that the work is indicitive of a current age where long-held truths relating to the creation and exhibition of digital work are dramatically shifting.
Thanks to technological advances in filming and post-production the spectrum of work being created in video is incredibly wide. At the same time highly accessible platforms of distribution, such as Youtube and Vimeo, have instigated the domestication of video art.
Video Contemporary has responded to this by installing the works across a range of devices and locations.
There will be a dedicated video program running for four hours that people can wander in and out from. Hanging screens will drop down around the theatre space bays and a four-channel work will be displayed to the side. There will even be a rotation of a three-channel work behind the theatre allowing people to move around the space while still being engaged in the work.
Artists featured in the exhibition include Brie Trennery (MARS Melbourne), Ash Keating (Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne), Laurent Grasso (Edouard Malinue Gallery, Hong Kong), Sriwhana Spong (Michael Lett, Auckland) and many more in a dynamic and inventive mix of talent and approach.
Video Contemporary will be exhibited alongside other Sydney Contemporary events including talks, art walks, installations, and kids activities.
Sydney Contemporary 2013 will run from 20-22 September at Carriageworks, with the first night being held on the evening of Thursday 19 September.
As a valued supporter of ArtsHub, Sydney Contemporary is offering general entry tickets at 40% off for those that make a purchase through the ArtsHub ticket offer page.
For further information visit the Sydney Contemporary website.
(Image: Ash Keating ‘West Park Proposition’ [cropped] 2012)
