Jul 29 2009
What happens when mediated entities obtain agency and operate beyond our control?
Seminar paper on the philosophical notion of the p-zombie in relation to the recent generative art of Murray McKeich.
SOLID STATES/LIQUID OBJECTS:DISCOURSES OF MEDIATION
A one-day international symposium19 August 2009, 10am - 4.15pm
Jul 24 2009
Essay on plagiarism, poststructuralism and the condemnation of Socrates
In Plagiarism! (From Work to Détournement) edited by Niall Lucy & John Kinsella
A special issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 14, 1 (2009). Now available:
Jul 12 2009
Jul 03 2009
Essay on Sue McCauley’s and Keith Deverill’s Rear Window
In Rear Window the mysterious radiance of the epiphany may well be the most recent technique to emerge in the visual language of the moving image. Its simple poetry of manifestation and evanescence, of gradual fading out of and towards a vanishing point of darkness, is an apt analogy of the elevation of the commonplace to something profound.
Site Unseen: Laneway Commissions 2009
Published by the City of Melbourne
ISBN 978-0-9775563-4-2
REAR WINDOW 13 July – 8 August 2009 (from dusk til late)
Greyspace (Sue McCauley & Keith Deverill)
REAR WINDOW is one of six artworks commissioned by the City of Melbourne as part of its annual Laneway Commissions. As a series of site specific contemporary art projects across the CBD, the Laneway Commissions engage deeply with Melbourne’s distinct topography, providing artists with an opportunity to contribute to the interpretation of the urban environment.
REAR WINDOW is a video installation exploring the role of laneways in the contemporary working lives of people in Chinatown. With often long, unsociable hours, many work behind closed doors and in the kitchens that open onto the back alleys of Melbourne. The private and contemplative moments of workers taking a break have been transformed into slow motion video portraits that appear unexpectedly on windows and doorways in three of Chinatown’s bustling alleyways.
Chinatown and film culture are important parts of the fabric of Melbourne’s inner city life - GreySpace’s Rear Window links the two, making a connection between the foreign world presented in Asian cinema and the local reality of the Chinese community living in Melbourne.
Guildford Lane (off Queen and Sutherland Streets between Little Lonsdale and LaTrobe Streets)
Flanigan Lane (off Queen and Sutherland Streets between Little Lonsdale and LaTrobe Streets)
Croft Alley (enter via Paynes Place, off Little Bourke Street between Russell and Exhibition Streets)
Jul 03 2009
Essay on George Bataille’s notions of pornography and the sacral in relation to Nina Sellars’
photographs of Stelarc’s Extra Ear surgery, Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris and
Perry Ogden’s photographs of Francis Bacon’s studio.
An unwitting allegory of post-humanism, “Rock DJ” segues into metaphysics as a commentary on the ascendance of a new philosophical conception of the body and eroticism more generally. When traditional forms of seduction no longer work, it’s “time to move your body”.
Pornotopias
(Image, Desire, Apocalypse)
eds. Andrew Mitchel, Jane Lewty & Louis Armand
Prague, Litteraria Pragensia
ISBN 80-7308-170-6
August, 2009
Jul 02 2009
Exhibition Catalogue Essay
In the age of mobility, the next killer app won’t be a gadget but a wireless capable organ “for other bodies in other places, enabling people to locate and listen to another body elsewhere”.
Stelarc
Scott Livesey Gallery
909A High Street, Armadale.
August 5-29, 2009
