15th
November - 6th December
Target wall,
Rundle Street
Limbo is an experimental video which explores the suspended
identity of a tree as a commodity or as a life support system
in a contemporary context. We follow the repetition and breaking
down of a tree as it becomes part of a structured industrial
barcode.
James Geurts’s art practice includes video, installation,
photomontage lightboxes and drawing. He is currently working
on Artesian, an experimental film funded by the Australian
Film Commission, in collaboration with composer Caerwen Martin,
Melbourne and Foton, electronic sound artists from Brussels.
The project was initially developed with assistance from
the Australia Council.
Recent installation exhibitions include 2004 Adelaide Biennial
of Australia, Art Gallery of South Australia; Tidemark, Greenaway
Art Gallery 2004; Suburban Edge, Australian Centre for Photography
2004; 3 Years To Life: Portraits of Refugee Children, Flinders
University Art Museum 2004; 6ft + Clean, Surf + Art, Gold
Coast City Gallery touring exhibition 2002 to 2004; Slipstream,
Mass Gallery 2002; Ark, installation exhibition, Adelaide
Festival of Arts 2002; and Roadmap, Greenaway Art Gallery
2001.
James received funding from ANAT (Australian Network for
Art and Technology) to attend Ars Elecronica, Austria in
2003.
Screen based works over recent years
include Reception, Art Gallery of South Australia 2004;
Tidemark, Greenaway Art Gallery 2004;Sink City, a street
video installation with trumpeter at the SALA Festival,
2003; Shellfish/man, a 4m x 3m street video installation,
SALA Festival 2002, ACMI Melbourne and Brisbane 2002 and
Art Gallery of South Australia 2003; Toying with Paradise
at Experimenta, Melbourne and ACCA Gallery in 2001. In
2001, James’s experimental
film Accord was screened live with the State Orchestra of
Victoria at the Melbourne Concert Hall.
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