ARS LONGA, VITA BREVIS

                                                       

                                                        "art is long, life is short"   [Hippocrates] 

VIDEO ART PROJECTS

Xmas Blur

Commissioned by Customs House as a public art project in lieu of the traditional Xmas Tree.

Installed on the video wall in the Foyer and projected on a screen in the Atrium.

5 CHANNEL VIDEO INSTALLATION 

                                                                                                                                  

ANNUS HORRIBILIS   7min  HD Digital Video Was it my imagination or did I just go through the hardest year of my life? Having become morbidly interested in people's perception of my recent spate of bad luck, I decided to explore it by asking friends to describe my life as if they themselves had lived through it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_eSHLeYhOA
 
 

This famous quote couldn't be more true of architecture.


Gerrit Reitveld's Red and Blue chair (1918)  is testimony of the endurance of art over time.


This video installation is a collaboration between Halcyone Architects and film director / photographer Alex Chomicz.


The video uses stop motion photography to mark the passage of time with light.


In contrast to the physicality of the chair, the ephemeral medium of light

and the natural phenomenon of time returns us to our theme -


ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS.


                                                                                                                               3 CHANNEL VIDEO INSTALLATION 

                                                                                                                                              P LAY SIMULTANEOUSLY

 

PLAY DEAD

The Cold Ghost is a chilling theme playing out as the narrative of "Play Dead”. 


This seemingly random series of long exposure ‘in-camera’ digital photographs takes on a 

sinister tone when viewed as the pre-emption of a tragedy.


Late at night on the remote West Coast of New Zealand, several nights after these pictures were taken, a mystery began to unfold, which would haunt this town for years to come… 


A young woman disappeared

in the same place where we’d decided to ‘play dead’.

Artists Simon Laws & Donna Marcus used heavy machinery to create a giant sized swan out of a surplus mining-truck tyre.

    

They have been invited to exhibit

this monumental sculpture at

The McClelland Sculpture Gallery

in Langwarrin - Melbourne.


A 9min Video Installation set to

Wagner’s “Mein Leiber Schwann”

details the process.


The Swan now resides on an island of the Gold Coast, Queensland.

I Saw The Angel In The Marble

And I Carved To Set Him Free