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From June through to November 2004, LUMINOSITY brings contemporary
projection artworks out of the gallery and into unexpected
and unusual places, using city buildings and shop fronts
as new arenas for public art. Two major new works by national
projection artists, Craig Walsh(Qld.), and Cicada(Vic)
were commissioned along with three new works by South Australian
artists. Local new media artists, Jennifer Lyons-Reid and
Carl Kuddel, SHOOT artists collective, and James Geurts
are featured in the Luminosity Program.
Amensal is an interactive installation work by Cicada, which
is currently screening in the windows of 265 Rundle Street,
Adelaide. It explores the delicate balancing act that unfolds
when nature ventures into the city, through the image of
giant lichen growing across windows reacting and changing
to the presence of passers by and street noise. Cicada is
the creative partnership between Nick Ritar and Kirsten Bradley.
The SHOOT artists collective will re-screen
their large-scale projection ‘Metrospective’ which
was recently stolen by thieves from the projection site
on the roof of the Southern Cross Arcade Building. Metrospective
addresses the visual landscape we occupy through a constantly
changing collage of consumerist images which are peeled
away to create new combinations of visual language. Metrospective
will screen on the Target Wall in October 2004.
James Geurts is a nationally recognised
artist who recently exhibited in the 2004 Adelaide Biennial
of Australian Art (AGSA). He will present ‘Limbo’,
an experimental video which explores the suspended identity
of a tree as a commodity or as a life support system in
a contemporary context. Limbo follows the repetition and
breaking down of a tree, as it becomes part of a structured
industrial barcode. Check it out on the wall of the target
Building on Rundle Street
Jennifer Lyons-Reid & Carl Kuddell presented ‘Human
Pastures’, a shop front video projection in Leigh Street,
West End during SALA Festival 2004. Their projection work
toyed with the weekly ritual of grazing the aisles.
“The balance between the built and natural
environments is a key issue when considering sustainability
and life in the City.” - Craig Walsh
Temporary Lodgings
was the first of five Projection Artworks to be presented
in the Adelaide CBD.
Local artists developed their works at the Projection Art
Masterclass with renowned new media artist CRAIG WALSH (Qld).
The Masterclass was exclusively for SA artists with a high
degree of experimentation, encouraging the participants to
re-interpret the surrounding city through the projected image.
The masterclass participants were:
Michael Sin-Yuen
Jennifer Lyons-Reid
Carl Kuddell
Annemarie Kohn
Ed James
Lynne Sanderson
Gerhard Hillmann
James Geurts
Brian Deggar
Clint Woodger
LUMINOSITY is a new public art program
presented by Adelaide City Council in association with
the Capital City Committee and delivered by the Australian
Network for Art & Technology.
The public is invited to have their say about the LUMINOSITY
projections. The dedicated SMS feedback number is via 0400
635 551.
The Green City Program, a priority
initiative of the Capital City Committee, aims to build on
the strength of Adelaide as a clean and green city to ensure
that we are sustainable. Its aim is for the City of
Adelaide to be a visible, sustainable core for metropolitan
Adelaide. The program is bold and experimental and
we look to connect our City with other cities internationally – we
want to be internationally recognised as a sustainable city
by 2010.In order to do this we need to highlight our talents
through iconic projects such as Luminosity. The Green City
Program seeks to stimulate discussion across a broad cross
section of the community through the projection of artworks
onto the built environment to communicate important messages
of sustainability. |
