AEAF Gallery
August 12th 2011 03:02
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My father and I dance in outer space
Link: www.wuraogunji.com
The aeaf invites you to the opening of
6-8pm thursday 18 august 2011
exhibition dates 19 august-17 september 2011
Disaster
Kit Wise
'Disaster' represents a survey of video works completed over the last two years by Melbourne-based artist Kit Wise, which together attempt to address our responses to the mediation of disaster and explore the representation of disaster in contemporary culture.
"Events such as those depicted in this exhibition are experienced via the media rather than in reality for the vast majority. However well intended, this 'mediation' of disaster unavoidably embeds political and aesthetic agendas within their depiction - serving to construct such events as a form of 'spectacle' within the wider context of consumerism, rather than a reality.
Artists similarly encounter this dilemma when working with such material. This work does not attempt a solution, but rather asks the viewer to question their responses to the 'sublime' image and to raise their awareness of the quality and implications of their witnessing." Kit Wise
Kit Wise was born 1975 in the UK and is an artist, art writer and curator. After graduating from Oxford University and the Royal College of Art with an MFA in Sculpture, he received a scholarship in 1999 to study at the British School at Rome. In 2001 he received a Boise Travel Scholarship, administered by the Slade School of Fine Art, for subsequent research in New York & Australia.
He moved permanently to Australia in 2002 and is currently Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Art & Design at Monash University. He has held solo exhibitions in Italy and Australia, exhibited in group exhibitions in Australia, Taiwan, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and The Netherlands, and has published numerous articles, reviews, book chapters and catalogue essays including texts for Australian and international art journals such as Frieze, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, and unMagazine. Kit Wise is represented by Sarah Scout Gallery, Melbourne.
My father and I dance in outer space
Wura-Natasha Ogunji
"The creation of 'My father and I dance in outer space' began with a question I had about the physical gestures of my father who is now deceased. I wanted to visualize what it might be like if we could dance together. It could only happen in this futuristic, otherworldly landscape. I used stop motion animation techniques to create the sense of flight, dance and intergalactic connection." Wura-Natasha Ogunji
Wura-Natasha Ogunji is a visual artist and performer. Her performance works include videos in which she engages her body in explorations of movement and mark-making across land, water and air. She has a BA from Stanford University (Anthropology) and an MFA from San Jose State University (Photography). She lives in Austin, Texas, USA.
Disaster
Kit Wise
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My father and I dance in outer space
Wura-Natasha Ogunji
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Kit Wise
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My father and I dance in outer space
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6-8pm thursday 18 august 2011
exhibition dates 19 august-17 september 2011
Disaster
Kit Wise
'Disaster' represents a survey of video works completed over the last two years by Melbourne-based artist Kit Wise, which together attempt to address our responses to the mediation of disaster and explore the representation of disaster in contemporary culture.
"Events such as those depicted in this exhibition are experienced via the media rather than in reality for the vast majority. However well intended, this 'mediation' of disaster unavoidably embeds political and aesthetic agendas within their depiction - serving to construct such events as a form of 'spectacle' within the wider context of consumerism, rather than a reality.
Artists similarly encounter this dilemma when working with such material. This work does not attempt a solution, but rather asks the viewer to question their responses to the 'sublime' image and to raise their awareness of the quality and implications of their witnessing." Kit Wise
Kit Wise was born 1975 in the UK and is an artist, art writer and curator. After graduating from Oxford University and the Royal College of Art with an MFA in Sculpture, he received a scholarship in 1999 to study at the British School at Rome. In 2001 he received a Boise Travel Scholarship, administered by the Slade School of Fine Art, for subsequent research in New York & Australia.
He moved permanently to Australia in 2002 and is currently Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Art & Design at Monash University. He has held solo exhibitions in Italy and Australia, exhibited in group exhibitions in Australia, Taiwan, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and The Netherlands, and has published numerous articles, reviews, book chapters and catalogue essays including texts for Australian and international art journals such as Frieze, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, and unMagazine. Kit Wise is represented by Sarah Scout Gallery, Melbourne.
My father and I dance in outer space
Wura-Natasha Ogunji
"The creation of 'My father and I dance in outer space' began with a question I had about the physical gestures of my father who is now deceased. I wanted to visualize what it might be like if we could dance together. It could only happen in this futuristic, otherworldly landscape. I used stop motion animation techniques to create the sense of flight, dance and intergalactic connection." Wura-Natasha Ogunji
Wura-Natasha Ogunji is a visual artist and performer. Her performance works include videos in which she engages her body in explorations of movement and mark-making across land, water and air. She has a BA from Stanford University (Anthropology) and an MFA from San Jose State University (Photography). She lives in Austin, Texas, USA.
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