Untitled '95

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Event Untitled '95
Venue The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW
First Date 12 January 1995
Opening Date 11 January 1995
Last Date 28 January 1995
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Description “The works in Untitled ‘95 have a recurring theme of veiling and surveillance, and from that an implied voyeurism… Paul Handley’s works are photographs of X-rays of paintings. A standard procedure in the authentication and study of of ‘old master’ European paintings, Handley - satirically - has used an unidentified ‘Sunday Painter’s’ version of an Australian impressionist bush scene. Caroline Ho-Bich-Tuyen Dang’s ‘maze’ is both playful and serious. The maze can be both a site of fun and terror and her work testifies that a barrier in a gallery setting does not need to be much of a barrier at all, to work as effectively as a far larger wall.

David Whelan’s work is perhaps more playful while working subversively with technology. Using a closed circuit sound surveillance system - parts of which are placed throughout the gallery area - Whelan directly involves the viewer/listener in a work which is only complete when the gallery visitor sets off and completes the electric circuit. Annabel Nowlan uses ‘found’ objects in the main to create a chapel to security and insecurity focusing on veiling as a process of hiding the horror within a domestic framework as much as hiding from the outside where various symbols of power/violence are modified and mediated by layered materials.

John Johnston’s work carries on with the theme of the hidden and consequent unveiling - this time in the form of packaging that is caught in the process of being unpacked. Johnston’s packages refer to art as commodity where the purchase of ‘high’ art becomes identical to the purchase of everyday merchandise. Sandra Cross is similarly concerned with the concealed and the revealed but in her case it is an investigation of the process of light. The veil both interrupts the free flow of light and allows it to pass through the cloth." (Billy Crawford)
Description Source Programme
Primary Genre Other
Secondary Genre Exhibition
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Sandra Cross Visual Artist
Paul Handley Visual Artist
Caroline Ho-Bich-Tuyen Dang Visual Artist
John Johnston Visual Artist
Annabel Nowlan Visual Artist
David Whelan Visual Artist
Further Information For more information including a longer catalogue essay see The Performance Space archive.
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Performance Space Database
Event Identifier 142000