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Beaconsfield: FlatScreen: Alex Kershaw - 9 June 2009 to 9 Aug 2010 Current Exhibition |
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FlatScreen: Alex Kershaw 3 films made between 2005 and 2009 9 June � 9 August 2009 Gallery 2 Alex Kershaw is based in Sydney and works with video and photography to generate unexpected relationships between people and their terrain. Often spending extended periods researching locations and characters, Kershaw�s quiet activism blurs the boundaries between everyday activity and devised performance as ordinary people become involved in the work. A Lake Without Water 2005/06 43� 23� single screen version 9 June � 28 June A Lake without Water began on Weereewa, a dry lake in the Southern NSW Tablelands, Australia. The project became a vehicle of exchange, creating new ways of being with people that live and work around the lake. In this single screen version, Weereewa becomes a theatre where the artist utilises the dry lake as a stage, instigating acts that operate as circuit breakers within the daily routines of work in and around the site. The Surveyors, auctioneers and farmers usually responsible for reducing the landscape to the exchangeable, symbolic forms of legalities, maps and currency, are recast as slapstick performers of ludic monologues and uncanny actions. One of Several Centres, 2007/08 32� 04� single screen version 30 June � 19 July Kershaw extends his practice in One of Several Centres, generating performative interactions between the people who live and holiday within Alice Springs through playful interventions which are intended to shift people�s routines and the expectations surrounding the town. Phi Ta Khon Project, 2008/09 17' 33� single screen version 21 July � 9 August In 2008 Kershaw travelled to Dansai, a small town in Loei Province of Northern Thailand and worked with the local council and community during their annual Phi Ta Khan festival. Translated as �ghosts follow people�, Phi Ta Khon combines animist, Brahmin and Buddhist traditions to articulate bonds between the dead and the living, between sexual and agricultural fertility and between the community and their spirit-infested natural world. The Phi Ta Khon Project, orchestrates a series of displacements in the spirit of Magic Realism, weaving harvest landscapes and documents of the festival with choreographed sequences in which local farmers, food vendors and council employees are the actors and challenging traditional roles and meanings. Programmed all the year round with new or seminal work from artists working with moving image, FlatScreen is the digital plane in Gallery Two that allows us to move fast and react to new possibilities Further information and enquiries: [email protected] 020 7582 6465 |
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