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Gertrude Contemporary is very pleased to present Project 35. This extraordinary travelling exhibition features 35 of the worlds most pivotal contemporary video works. Organised by the Independent Curators International (ICI) in New York these works were selected by 35 key curators from countries across the globe including Mami Kataoka (Japan), Raimundas Malasauskas (Lithuania/France) and Hans Ulrich Obrist (Switzerland/UK).
For Project 35, each curator was invited to select one artists video that they think is vital for contemporary art audiences. Presented across Gertrude Contemporarys two gallery spaces in four specially designed video projection spaces, these video works offer a diversity of approaches to video making, reflecting varying techniques, exploring a range of ideas and reflecting an enormous breadth of socio cultural contexts.
Gertrude Contemporarys Director, Alexie Glass-Kantor was invited to represent Australia as one of the curators of Project 35, and for this exhibition she selected Tracy Moffatts 2009 work Other. Of this work Glass-Kantor says, Other is rich and diverse, providing a funny, robust, and critical riff on the way the native has been portrayed in popular cinema. As a comment on Australias position within the broader global art context, Glass-Kantors selection mirrors the tongue-in-cheek nature of Moffatts collaged content as she goes on to say, Other disrupts mild manners by resisting subjugation and not ?inching from complexity, often using pre-existing moving images ironically to create an unsettling yet ribald narrative of compromised parts.
Project 35 recalls the founding initiatives of both Gertrude Contemporary and the ICI. Both institutions began over two decades ago with the intention of exhibiting pioneers across all media including the burgeoning field of video art. Gertrude Contemporarys emphasis on risk and experimentation has seen it feature such key film and video artists throughout the years as Australians - Peter Kennedy, Lyndal Jones and Shaun Gladwell along with international artists such as Young Hae Chang - Heavy Industries, Ming Wong, Joachim Koester and Olaf Breuning. Likewise ICIs inaugural exhibition was a seminal survey of video art featuring work by Vito Acconci, Bruce Nauman, Nam June Paik, and Bill Viola.
This is the Australian premiere of Project 35 and features pivotal contemporary moving image work works never before shown in Australia.
CURATORS INCLUDE
Mai Abu ElDahab (Egypt/Belgium), Magali Arriola (Mexico), Ruth Auerbach (Venezuela), Zoe Butt (Australia/Vietnam), Yane Calovski (Macedonia), Amy Cheng (Taiwan), Lee Weng Choy (Singapore), Ana Paula Cohen (Brazil), Joselina Cruz (Philippines), Sergio Edelsztein (Argentina/Israel), Charles Esche (UK/Netherlands), Lauri Firstenberg (U.S.), Alexie Glass-Kantor (Australia), Julieta Gonzalez (Venezuela), Anthony Huberman (Switzerland/U.S.), Mami Kataoka (Japan), Lars Bang Larsen (Denmark), Constance Lewallen (U.S.), Lu Jie (China), Raimundas Malasauskas (Lithuania/France), Francesco Manacorda (Italy), Chus Martinez (Spain), Viktor Misiano (Russia), David Moos (Canada), Deeksha Nath (India), Simon Njami (Cameroon/France), Hans Ulrich Obrist (Switzerland/UK), Jack Persekian (Palestine), José Roca (Colombia), Bisi Silva (Nigeria), Franklin Sirmans (U.S.), Kathryn Smith (South Africa), Susan Sollins (U.S.), Mirjam Varadinis (Switzerland), and WHW (Croatia)
Artists: Guy Ben-Ner , Yukihiro Taguchi , Daniel Halter , Zhou Xiaohu , Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz , The Propeller Group , Kota Ezawa , Edwin Sanchez , and Robert Cauble , Sammy Baloji , Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys , Andrea Büttner , Alexander Apóstol , Daniela Paes Leao , Ranbir Kaleka , Ho Tzu Nyen , Stephen Sutcliffe , Azorro Group , Yason Banal , Tracey Moffatt , Meris Angioletti , Michael Stevenson , Vyacheslav Akhunov , Beryl Korot , Anja Medved , Tracey Rose , Ulla von Brandenburg , Elodie Pong , Chto delat , Chen Chieh-jen, Manon de Boer , Angela Detanico & Rafael Lain , Nestor Krüger , Vartan Avakian , Tamar Guimarães
