• Artists’ Moving Image From Australia & UK

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      Landscape is a vital theme through which artists have tackled issues of representation, nation and identity. FIGURING LANDSCAPES is a remarkable collection of moving image works from Australia and the UK that has grown from the background of the political and cultural history that links the two countries and the close relationship that continues between them. The individual pieces in FIGURING LANDSCAPES address ecological survival, post-industrialism, gender, the touristic gaze, and the social, political and cultural status of indigenous people in a post-colonial modern society.

      The programme is accompanied by a major publication with commissioned essays by Professor Malcolm Andrews, Eu Jin Chua, Professor Catherine Elwes and Steven Ball, Dr. Stan Frankland, Dr. Eric Hirsch, Professor Pat Hoffie and Dr. Danni Zuvela and Professor Ross Gibson.

      Copies available priced £7.00 from CINECITY.

    • ENCOUNTER: PROGRAMME 1

      FREE

      Sun 22 Nov 4.00pm

      Sallis Benney Theatre

      Landscape is experienced as a spatial encounter with specific places, journeying across distance and memory, custom and industry, on land, on water and through the air. Thirteen short works by contemporary artists evoke their encounters with landscape.

      Programme duration : 65 min

      Wiliam Raban Civil Disobedience UK, 2004, 3 min

      Warwick Thornton & Daren Dale Country Song Australia, 2007, 2 min 

      Tony Hil Downside Up UK, 1985, 7:24 min extract 

      Lyndal Jones Noel Australia, 2008, 2 min extract 

      Emily Richardson Petrolia UK, 2004, 7 min extract

      Andrew Kötting Jaunt UK, 1995, 6 min

      Jef Doring Mandu Australia, 1983- 2008, 10 min extract 

      Alan Gidy You Australia 2005 4 min extract 

      Dryden Goodwin Flight UK, 2005, 5 min

      Catherine Elwes Pam’s War UK, 2008, 5 min

      Dalziel + Sculion Another Place UK, 2000, 4 min extract

      Simon Holington & Kypros Kyprianou CCTV Monitor 1 UK, 2003, 3:30 min

      Matthew Murdoch Being There UK, 2006, 2 min

    • ENGAGEMENT: PROGRAMME 2

      FREE

      Sun 22 Nov 5.30pm

      Sallis Benney Theatre

      The political, cultural and representational engagement with place and being on the land are simultaneously unpacked, celebrated and imaginatively reinvigorated. These are sites of identity and anonymity, named and claimed, scattered with the markers of ownership and the history of humanity in the environment.

      Programme duration: 60 mins

      Vernon Ah Kee Cant Chant (Wegrewhere) Australia, 2007, 10 min

      Ann Donely , Political Landscape, UK, 2007, 7 min extract 

      Dominic Redfern Heat Australia, 2007, 5 min

      Eugenia Lim Young American Australia, 2005, 4 min

      David Pery Interior with Views Australia 1975, 5 min

      Merilyn Fairskye Conected, Australia, 2003, 10 min

      Brendan Lee Proving Ground Australia, 2007, 4 min extract

      Genevieve Staines Ruins in Reverse Australia, 2005, 5 min

      Dan Shipsides Coir’ a’ Ghrunda 360 UK, 2007, 2 min

      Anna Cady Farms of Innocence UK, 2007, 2 min

      Hugh Wat Blacklaw UK, 2007, 5 min

    • SURROUNDINGS: PROGRAMME 3

      FREE

      Sat 28 Nov 1.30pm

      Sallis Benney Theatre

      This programme explores the ambiance of place as it resonates from the broad scope of the horizon to the intimacy of the closely observed. Out there the figure in the landscape is a rare sight, the image of the place is to be constructed from memory, from the image of materials to hand or construed from the abstract sensation of movement.

      Programme duration: 70 mins

      Nick Colins Tidemils UK 2002, 10 min

      Sofia Dahlgren Winter Light UK, 2005, 4 min

      Shaun Gladwel, Approach to Mundi Mundi Australia, 2007, 8: 37 min

      David Mackenzie Where the Crow Flies Backwards , Australia, 2006, 6:50 min

      Jo Milet, Suroundings: Tres, UK, 2007, 3 min

      Steven Bal, The Ground, The Sky and the Island, UK, 2008, 7:45 min

      Sandra Landolt , Push, Australia, 2007, 4:30 extract

      John Conomos, Lake George (after Mark Rothko), Australia, 2008, 7 min extract

      Mike Marshal, Days Like These, UK, 2003, 5 min

      Scot Morison, Ocean Echoes, Australia, 2007, 9 min

    • FIGURING LANDSCAPES – THE PANEL

      FREE

      Sat 28 Nov 3.00pm

      Sallis Benney Theatre

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      UK Co-Curator of Figuring Landscapes Catherine Elwes, chairs a special panel discussion with a selection of featured artists including Matt Hulse, Nick Collins and Semiconductor.

    • ENACTMENT: PROGRAMME 4

      FREE

      Sat 28 Nov 4.30pm

      Sallis Benney Theatre

      Figures in the landscape: polymorphous, animal, vegetable, mineral, visible or invisible. Enacted within the specificity of environment, human presence writes and performs the landscape as much as the landscape inscribes and enacts human presence.

      Programme duration: 70 mins

      Margaret Tait, Portrait of Ga, UK, 1952, 4 min

      David Theobald, Greensleves, UK, 2007, 5 min

      John Gilies, Divide, Australia, 2005, 10 min extract

      Tammy Honey, iBeach, Australia, 2007, 4 min

      Ben Rivers, The Coming Race, UK, 2006, 5 min

      Sarah Dobai, Netlecombe, UK, 2007, 7 min

      Bronwyn Platten, Meeting Nude Woman Walking on Balls, Australia, 2006, 4 min extract

      Hobart Hughes, Removed, Australia, 2005, 6 min

      George Barber, River Sky, UK, 2002, 6 min

      Roz Cran, Stone, UK, 2008, 4 min

      Sergio Cruz, Animalz, UK, 2006, 4 min

      Patricia Picinini, Sandman, Australia, 2002, 4:10 min

      Matt Hulse, Sine Die, UK, 1994, 4 min

    • ANTI-TERRAIN: PROGRAMME 5

      FREE

      Sun 29 Nov 4.00pm

      Sallis Benney Theatre

      Anti-terain Landscape is shaped by our relationship to it. Custodianship of the land and its efficacy transcends a human lifetime; the physical shape of the environment and its cultural and imaginative formation will always be political.

      Programe duration : 65 mins

      John Hughes & Peter Kenedy, On Sacred Land, Australia, 1983, 6 min extract

      Semiconductor, All the Time in the World, UK, 2005, 5 min

      Esther Johnson, Hinterland, UK, 2002, 10 min version

      Mike Latto, 311, UK, 2007, 10 min Peter Callas,

      Night’s High Noon: An Anti-Terrain, Australia, 1988, 7:26 min

      Destiny Deacon, Over d-fence, Australia, 2004, 7 min

      Daniel Crooks, Static no 10 (falling as a means of rising), Australia, 2007, 7:55 min

      Susan Norrie & David Mackenzie, Twilight, Australia, 2006, 9:33 min