Recently Showing at Te Tuhi 26 November, 2011 – 29 January, 2012
Including collaborations with: Dr Kron, Jenny Gillam, Mike Heynes, Simon Morris, Dan Shaw, Andy Thomson, Peter Trevelyan.
This exhibition is comprised of eight collaborations which explore a variety of ways in which audio pervades contemporary life. While the world we inhabit might still be adequately described by landscape depiction, however in the second decade of the twenty first century, for many of us Media Scape might be both a more apt description and more accurate description.. As urbanised detribalised globalised individuals we inhabit a world that exists both physically and virtually Media is the the interface between these two states of existence. While a conventional landscape maps a view of a particular site, a Media Scape maps a more complex depiction of our locus, While this media scape is physically comprised of audio and video (or rather the technology that stores and deploys these media elements), But more significantly it is a network of mediatised individuals who create a community it consists of a series of relationships of nodal points, physical locations, characters, friends and acquaintances, likeminded people to work with.
Reviewed by John Hurrell at EyeContact
Reviewed by T J McNamara at the nzherald.co.nz
Artworks throughout all galleries: Simon Morris, Sound line, 2011 , acrylic paint
Dr Kron, Image credit, 2011, adhesive vinyl
Future Calls the Dawn, with Jenny Gillam
Monophone with Peter Trevelyan
Root Mean Square is an investigation of the politics of site, space and territory and their use in relation to popular culture. In this work I collaboratively develop and deploy a complex multimedia installation where several media scapes are mapped into a fixed local using audio and video to simultaneously collapse and articulate physical space.
Rasta Blasta with Dan Shaw
Rather than isolating a particular concept or content each collaborator brings their interest in distinctly different but related aspects of popular and audio culture to the project, which reflects and surveys the diasporas nature of the network and therefore the media scape we inhabit. While previous projects have investigated the Idea that we now inhabit a diasporas media scape these have tended to focus on that media scape as both televisual and cinematic. Root Mean Square continues to look at the significance of these forms in popular culture but also builds on my recent practice which investigates the physical biological and cultural primacy of audio.
Listen: A Drone Rex&Dan 160kb MP3 6’59″
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Listen: SpeedRacer Rex&Dan 160kb MP3 12’13″
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Listen: Tolls Rex&Dan 160kb MP3 22’39″
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Frank Rocks with Jenny Gillam
Frank Rocks (RMIT)
Frank Rocks (Te Tuhi)
Listen: Frank Rocks 160kb MP3 5’52″
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Fieldwork 2 with Andy Thomson
RootMeanSquare extends my investigation of the idea that Collaboration is the primary mode of media production, I have an extensive history of collaborative practice that attempts to make the means of contemporary cultural production transparent, By assembling a large and diverse team of collaborators with various levels of experience and fields of expertise this approach ensures not only a rich and diverse set of content but a sense of freshness in the approach as some contributors make forays in to new territory for their practice – these endeavors are supported by the expertise of other members of the team.
Analog with Mike Heynes
I have been developing an approach where I liken myself to a producer or DJ rather than Artist in a conventional sense in my media installations. This approach also allows for a variety of levels of commitment for each of the participants. I have trialed this mode of production in collaborative media installation and performance projects over the last five years and have previously collaborated with the majority of the artists represented here.
