Antony Gormley: bodies in space

Thank you to a friend, CB, who sent me this link:

http://www.ted.com/talks/antony_gormley_sculpted_space_within_and_without.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TEDTalks_video+%28TEDTalks+Main+%28SD%29+-+Site%29

It's interesting to hear a sculptor discussing the space of bodies, the body as a site of potentiality and relational to architecture and site. When we close our eyes, we can become aware of the intimate subjective collective space of the body - a place of imagination and potential, a place that is objectless and dimensionless. This is the elemental world he seeks us to engage with - the darkness of the living body and somatic experience, as distinct from the technological world.

And, of course, I was so lucky to see his work at the mouth of the Mersey near Liverpool recently.

'Covert' solo show

COVERT

CAROLYN MCKAY

12 – 30 SEPTEMBER 2012

OPENING PREVIEW FRIDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 6-8PM

galleryeight is pleased to exhibit a solo show of recent work by Carolyn McKay.

Covert presents a suite of four HD videos created by McKay while travelling around Japan last year. Filmed covertly from behind glass, windows of trains and hotels afforded her the opportunity to be a watchful eye observing the unsuspecting, revealing unconnected episodes of strangers’ lives. What she found particularly appealing about this form of surreptitious spectatorship was that the images revealed people unposed, introspective and natural. However, she sensed that she was secretly thieving a portion of someone’s daily life for her own artistic purposes. The videos appropriate and fix private moments that would normally have remained ephemeral, compelling these strangers, through DVD looping, to repeat their experiences indefinitely. On the other hand, these stolen episodes have gained a poetic resonance that may have otherwise passed unnoticed.

Thank you to Carrie Miller and The Art Life for a review:

http://theartlife.com.au/?p=7000

Sydney College of the Arts Graduate School Conference and PhD Exhibition

It's a busy week at SCA with the PhD exhibition opening tomorrow night (Wednesday 12 September) and the conference on Thursday 13th. I'm taking part in both events, with a series of light boxes in the exhibition related to my research and I'll be presenting at the conference "Videos and inmates: digitising the criminal body."

For more details, see http://sydney.edu.au/sca/graduate_school/current_students/conference/about.shtml