In January, Adelaide Festival Centre's Moving Image Program is exhibiting 'Phantasmogoria extended' by Bridgette Minuzzo, 'UMI' by Emma Hough Hobbs, and '35°03’28.1’’S 139°09’55.1’'E' by Kristen Coleman on our King William Road digital screens.
Bridgette Minuzzo, Phantasmogoria extended, moving image, 8:34 mins
Image: Bridgette Minuzzo, Phantasmogoria extended, moving image, (still), 8:34 mins
Phantasmagoria extended was the inaugural work in Adelaide Festival Centre’s Moving Image Program and was commissioned for the unveiling of the Outdoor Media Screens on King William Road. It reflects the artist’s preoccupation with light, reflection, pattern, and repetition, and responds to the octagonal shapes repeated in Adelaide Festival Centre’s architecture.
Minuzzo’s practice continues to focus on moving image and soundscapes that articulate notions of place and the restorative effects of nature. The artist was also commissioned to make moving image projections for Adelaide Festival Centre’s 40th Anniversary in 2013.
Emma Hough Hobbs, UMI, moving image, 2:52 mins
Image: Emma Hough Hobbs, UMI, moving image, (still), 2:52 mins
A surreal journey of self-discovery involving a girl and her mysterious elevator. A silent girl with blue hair and blue skin enters an elevator in a blank space. It teleports her to a variety of wonderous and weird areas, gradually she interacts with these scenes more and more until she leaves the elevator to sit in a small cinema and watch the waves go by.
Kristen Coleman, 35°03’28.1’’S 139°09’55.1’'E, moving image, 5:02 mins
Image: Kristen Coleman, 35°03’28.1’’S 139°09’55.1’'E, moving image, (still), 5:02 mins
35°03’28.1’’S 139°09’55.1’'E is a slowed-down long shot of the wind blowing through an open grass field. Its thematic focus of stillness, silence, and duration aims to capture, at least temporarily, time and experience. Filmed at Callington in South Australia, this video work is a contemplative piece that is positioned antithetically to the rhythm of the city. Proposed for installation on either the northern or southern external screens, the screens funtion as a window to the field.