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2011 News:

Just Ideas curated by Clinton Cross, Dirty Linen Art Space, Bundaberg opening friday December 9, 2011

Rights on Show, at the Supreme Court, an exhibition presented by the Darwin Community Legal Service, opened thursday December 8, 2011

Art of Pride, ConsiderArt Gallery, Darwin, an exhibition presented by the Darwin Pride Festival, opened November 21

Projected scenarios to inform the home of the future in Australia and Korea.
In a crisis environment where the home is now out of reach of most Australian and Korean pockets, Always on My Mind is a cross-cultural project that explores relative values and attitudes about the home between Australia and South Korea.
The screen- and object-based project will promote design intervention and alternative thinking to the home as a convention, ritual and social construct. The dialogue will reflect on such issues as family, work and leisure, the aged and land ownership, and reveal cultural similarities and differences in the our preoccupations and aspirations about our lives and our living places. The media and architectural project will seek interaction and responses from citizens across social strata in both countries.
To be staged at two of Seoul’s most visible venues, the project will be a showcase to interface forward thinking by both Australian and Korean media artists / designers / architects and cultural theorists who will synthesize a series of open prognoses.

at the Seoul National University Museum of Art, November 3-27, 2011 ; and at Gana Gallery @ Seoul Square, a 23-storey LED screen covering the corporate building's entire front façade facing Seoul Central Railway Station.

Fist Full of Films Festival screening 'everything looks beautiful', November, 2011

'name that movie' at Urban Shaman in the Marvin Francis Media Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, opens October 14 and runs until November 24

'name that movie' 2007,  DVD, 10 minute loop

the screen-based world - is it the reflector or the director? 

do we imitate it, or does it imitate us? 

‘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 dismissal / resignation / fatigue, recognising predictability and history repeating itself. unless of course you haven’t seen the movie or are unaware of the history, then the expression is a way of opening up discussion. naming and defining is a way of breaking down the power of neo-liberal actions. in this instance ‘name that movie’ is a video that’s set up like a game, a drinking game maybe? 

the object of the game is to guess the movie through summary cues and a film excerpt. there are only nine (re)colonisation techniques named here, but there are plenty more. if you don’t recognise these movies then when you’re next on the couch – keep your sharp eye open. if you do recognise these colonisation techniques, then you need to get off the couch – with your sharp tongue!

keep naming the movies.

Native All Stars featured in the Niu Pasifik Warrior exhibition at Casula Powerhouse, Sydney, as part of the Niu Warrior Festival. Opening September 24, 2011

exhibiting in Blue August at Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane, August 9 - 24

participated in Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights and Advocacy program, Baguio City, Philippines, April 6 - 15, with 41 participants assembling in Baguio City from 14 countries across the Asia Pacific Region

undertaking the Realisator Program through the Film Office at CDU, March, 2011

Mentoring for the NEWFlames Foundation Artist-in-Residence program, Canopy Artspace, Cairns, March

Pink Sunrise - exhibition at Boomalli, Sydney, NSW, March 11 - April 11. image: Pink and Black, 2010, Digital photo on canvas

'The Womens Project' exhibition at 19Karen Contemporary Artspace, at the Gold Coast, Queensland, to mark the 100th Anniversary of International Womens Day. March 8 - 19

the ‘MERGE’ Exhibition coincides with the MERGE Festival, A Community-based Festival that connects Creative Arts practice with Creative Industry Research

MERGE (incorporating the MERGE Festival) is a multi-discipline initiative designed to cultivate art and performance within the heart of the community. MERGE endeavours to link multiple creative arts genres, multiple locations, multiple nationalities/ages, and community engagement/participation (both urban and remote) to serve as a podium to celebrate the unification of
new media, visual arts, dance, and music performance. Through enhanced community engagement in the festival and the joining of the young and young at heart through shared musical performance and art, a significantly positive impact upon health and social well being is anticipated.

MERGE will provide the mechanism to link up creative and performing artists with cross discipline researchers who will help to frame studio and practice-based activity with scholarly research outputs

at the Gallery, Charles Darwin University, Building 10, Casuarina campus, Darwin, Northern Territory, February 12 - 19