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Name that Movie
"‘Name that Movie’ explores common colonisation techniques through the “gods eye” of mainstream movies with an international reach. When witnessing a recurring action, some say ‘I’ve seen that movie’. it is an ambiguous expression of…
Other[wize]
In her multimedia installation, other[wize], Jenny Fraser recounts and reflects on her family history, and she describes it as ‘celebrating the lives of Mununjali family members that were moved from their traditional homelands in South East…
I Saw the Signs
Jenny Fraser works within a fluid screen-based practice of bold and confronting art that utilises popular cultural references as a bridge to challenge viewer’s frames of reference. Her practice has also been partly defined through a strong…
Suspended Disbelief
From within the pile of books, on an endless loop, comes the sound of two voices telling an endless story. The story is made from quotations from more than sixty different novels. The pieces are put together in such a way that they suggest a…
Make or Break
A temporary installation for an exhibition at the Women's Gallery in Melbourne - curated by Penny Webb. The work was made in collaboration with Anna Gibbs who wrote & performed the sound work with Nola Farman. The work used net hammocks &…
Carsick
Several sections of old cars have been dragged into the gallery and electronically activated in some way - by sound and/or video. This piece was made in collaboration with Anna Gibbs, Brad Clinch and Helen Britton. An additional sound track of a…
The Heart of the Matter
Two armchairs face each other across an island of carpet. One of them is occupied by a large red plastic love heart, steadily beating and pulsing with light. As anyone approaches, the heart beats faster and louder, subsiding as s/he moves away again.…
Attached By One's Own Action
A miniature TV monitor is embedded in an illustrated dictionary. A viewer can sit at a desk an put on earphones. The sound track is a monologue on reading & writing - the constructing of meaning through these practices. The video shows archival…
Suite Talk
Artist StatementA double sided armchair made of secondhand hardcover novels contains a sound track of the continuous reading of a collaged narrative taken from 64 different novels. A quasi-narrative which never finds a resolution.
Braille Book
A cast book with a Braille text has photosensitive cells which when touched produce sounds which can be heard from speakers located around the ceiling. The sounds allude to the meaning of the text that can only be fully understood by Braille readers.…
Ooh! Aah!
A temporary installation to accompany Suite Talk, for the Adelaide Festival Fringe. The work is made of books and has a sound work of a variety of exclamations.Excerpt from the Australian Sound Design Project
Metabolism
A temporary installation in the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. A hole is cut into a sealed over fireplace in what was once a boy's classroom.. A sound work is placed inside the chimney of a lesson being given on the human digestive system. A…
Space Between
Artist StatementAttempting to write four different letters simultaneously with the use of extensions attached to arms and legs.Source of Artist Statement
The Chopstick Technique
Artist StatementWith two pens in each hand the artist attempts to write four letters simultaneously.Source of Artist Statement
Pulling Strings
Artist StatementAttempting to write two different letters by pulling and releasing strings attached to each of the four limbs.Source of Artist Statement
No Strings
Artist Statement Hacking a roller-ball mouse to separate the x and y axes of cursor control. horizontal cursor-movement is controlled by the arms, with vertical movement controlled by the legs. By working across two computers two texts are produced…
I-ROLLER
Artist StatementTwo teams, warriors all, enter the great cycle of pain, humiliation, and exhilaration. Different women take the lead, driven by a new and ardent desire. Some come from the Furies, expressing the unappeasable anger of the dead, while…
Cipher
Cipher is a work in progress by 'collaborators' Josephine Wilson and Linda Carroli. Email conversations are the anchor for this engagement with a rhetoric that queries the value and the a/effects (now and/or eventual) of desire in the realm of…
*Water writes always in *Plural
A virtual writers-in-residence project. ANAT, as a joint initiative with the Adelaide based Electronic Writing and Research Ensemble, commissioned Perth based writer Josephine Wilson and Brisbane writer Linda Carroli to undertake 'virtual'…
Inside/Outside Intertextuality
Artist StatementInside/outside intertextuality is a collection of fragments relating to text, new technologies, identity and language. Both text and language are considered in their broadest contexts: as entities which transmute as they voyage across…