Artists

Loresa Kosloff 


Kosloff's video works 'Spirit & Muscle' (2006) and 'Dizzy pupil' (2006) - pictured below - deal with the body in an interesting way that abstract the body. They take away the personal and engage the viewer with the object the body has become, it's movements and the space that it is occupying. 

Spirit & Muscle"Spirit & Muscle recalls a range of cultural interests including sport, modern abstraction, dance and cartoons. The work indirectly refers to early Cubist experiments by Picasso, Bauhaus dance performances, and the performing body in early video art. By literally inserting the female body into painted geomteric forms, Spirit & Muscle lightheartedly deconstructs the phallocentric male canon in painting and art history, as well as cultural ideals."
(taken from http://www.laresakosloff.com/)



Spirit & Muscle 
Digital video (4 min 39 sec)
Production still: Christian Capurro
2006





Dizzy pupil
Series of still images from video (1 min)
2006


"Many of Schlemmer’s Bauhaus performances explored the relationship between the human figure and space, and used geometric costumes to transform natural movement into standardised, artificial gestures." (http://www.laresakosloff.com/text.html)

Exert from text "Curated by Juliana Engberg, A.C.C.A, Melbourne, Australia, 2006
Catalogue essay: Liza Vasiliou" - DOC #2 - written about 'Spirit & Muscle' (2006) and 'Dizzy pupil' (2006) 

I have also found a text  - DOC #3 - written about Kosloff's work "Deep & Shallow" (2004) - pictured below - that again takes a lot of the humanness of the human body away but it involves a group of six women and "Accordingly, even though we are presented with video, the premise of Deep & Shallow is performance. Surveying the history of the genre Kosloff’s piece is not merely about performance art, it shares many of the concerns explored in various stages of its evolution: the body, human gesture, ritual, the absurd, a social canvas, political discourse, feminism and symbolism." (http://www.laresakosloff.com/text.html)


Deep & Shallow 2004
Dvd on six flat screen monitors
Make it Modern, curated by Juliana Engberg, Deloitte oiffice, Melbourne, 2005
Installation view: John Brash

Another work.... 


New Diagonal Production still: Alex Martinis Roe
Digital video (3 min)
2007

In "New Diagonal" (2007) Kosloff seems to be engaging with the object using her body. She combined movements from different sports and yoga and preformed them in relation to the 3D shape.

Bianca Hester


Interesting essay written by Dr Adrian Parr "partial,temporal,material events"- DOC #4

Some pictures from show in Society, Sydney




5.08.10 - 26.09.10

  Daniel von Sturmer

 Link to Daniel von Sturmer's 'Short Band Video' (2004)

 Synopsis
Continuing from his 'Truth Effect' series, and the tradition of George Méliès, Daniel von Sturmer creates a miniature environment in which an everyday object behaves in unexpected ways.
Artist Statement - Daniel von Sturmer
'My work involves a range of media to experiment with the relationship between pictorial space and real space, expectation and perception. Recent video works have been initiated by questions concerning the apprehension of space and time, and the way in which video can render these malleable and elastic.
The illusory space of video is used in the work as a site in which to test propositions, and examine expectations of visual and physical experience. Focusing on the semblance of ordinary things, the videos assume a visual order where the process of seeing and believing can be played out, transforming the experience into a conscious interplay between viewer and viewed.'
(http://www.acmi.net.au/shortbandvideo.aspx)
(2010)

(2010)

 Material From Another Medium (2001), CCP, Melbourne
 3 screen video installation and architectural intervention



An alteration to the gallery space that allows the viewer to see into a back room that is usually not seen or known is even there. Wall cut back on angle so wall looks to be paper thin.




Link to catalogue essay for Material From Another Medium, 2001, by Andrea Tu
  • Art and science - laws of gravity.
  • An investigation into showing things we know but don't take notice of or don't think through, until we are shown it simplified and on it's own. An investigation into materials.
"We all know that a balloon's elasticity will only stretch to a certain point and that bodies will always fall to the ground regardless of what the camera's eye wishes us to believe. It could seem that DvS is merely adopting the dry hand in the white coat as a tool for his dry sense of humor. However all of this experimental rigor is directed towards something, just not towards uncovering the causes of motion or for demonstrating theorems of elasticity. Instead his wry investigations obliquely show us what the essence of these particular materials might be and what the essence of art might be." (http://www.danielvonsturmer.com/Text_Andrea_Tu.html)


 The Object of Things (2007), Venice Biennale, Italy
5 screen video installation with objects.








I love the wooden line through the space - would be awesome if the pieces weren't joined together and it was just the pressure of the pieces on each other holding it.