‘Stop Frame’ by Samuel Khusunawi, Ching Wern Oung, Madeleine Preston

STOP FRAME

This exhibition came from the desire to work with practitioners from different disciplines, in this case – Samuel Khusunawi a designer/photographer, Ching Wern Oung an architect, and Madeleine Preston an artist. The work in Stop Frame navigates the idea of time based media from its crudest digital frame to more sophisticated technologies.

The three pieces in Stop Frame comprise three responses to the surrounding gallery space:
* Close Up
* Through the imaginary personal space of the surrounding area – intermediate exposure
* An overview of the gallery in a longer shot

Madeleine Preston
Reflecting both the relationship between time and space, Madeleine Preston’s work addresses the intimacy of viewing the detail of immediate surroundings through the reimagining of the digital picture frame.

By repositioning the tiny frame within the standard white cube’s plinth the audience is forced to concentrate on a representation of the gallery space it is in.

The images shown are sections of the gallery photographed and cropped to suggest camera zooms and pans. The tiny screen creates an environment where the viewer is forced to connect with their surroundings in a new way.

Samuel Khusunawi
“Life is too short, I don’t have enough time for this!”
“Only time can heal the wound”
“Oh no, look at the time. We are going to be late!”

Time, what is time? Are our lives governed by time?
Using elements from his surroundings and an emotional response to the topic, Samuel Khusunawi attempts to capture “time” itself by means of photography, illustration and animation, reversing the usual role of time as our relentless master.

After all, one of the early myths about photography concerns its capability to capture the soul for all eternity.

Ching Wern Oung
stop. frame. memory.

you are separated from yourself on the streets,
you become one of them, the many who walk it everyday,
you lose your identity, just as they lose theirs -
a walker, a runner, a stroller, an ambler, a sleeper.

Ching Wern Oung explores memories of the street within captured images – how identities become segregated from the personal and become public personae as one shuffles on.

WHAT: Stop Frame
WHO: Samuel Khusunawi, Ching Wern Oung, Madeleine Preston
WHEN: Wednesday 17 June, 6pm (opening), 18-27 June
WHERE: Don’t Look Gallery, 419 New Canterbury Rd, Dulwich Hill.
CONTACT: email: dontlookgallery@gmail.com, mob: 0401 152 434

Letters End at the Casula Powerhouse

From the creator of the internationally acclaimed productions LaLaLuna and The Shneedles, luminous physical theatre maestro Wolfe Bowart returns with Letter’s End – a whole new box of lunacy that truly pushes the envelope.

If your mind were a room and your life’s memories lost in a jumble of old boxes, what forgotten treasures might you find?

With his signature mix of circus and theatre, stage illusion, interactive film and physical comedy, Wolfe Bowart has travelled the world enchanting audiences of all ages and nationalities. Fresh from tours of Brazil, Greece, Hong Kong, New Zealand, the UK and multiple nationwide tours of Australia, Bowart returns once again to invite us into the realm of the fantastic.

Cut the string, tear open the brown paper wrapping and live a wondrous world rediscovered in Letter’s End. Letter’s End – this time his memory is the one playing tricks.

Friday 15, Saturday 16 & Monday 18 May 2009
Performance Times
Fri & Mon 11am, Sat 2pm

Cost
Full $20
Conc $16
Family $65
Club Members $18
Club Members Conc. $13

Casula Powerhouse theatre
1 Casula Road Casula, NSW Australia

For Letters End bookings

Artist – Sun H. Choi.

I currently have a solo show, Flow of Memory, at the ARC gallery (www.arcgallery.org) at 832 W. Superior #204 in Chicago, from now until April 25th, 2009.  I am eager for people to come and view this mixed media installation that I have worked so hard on and which has so much significance for me. 

Website at www.sunchoi.com.

Trace Elements: Spirit and Memory in Japanese and Australian Photomedia

TRACE ELEMENTS:  features work by Australian artists Philip Brophy, Jane Burton, Alex Davies, Genevieve Grieves and Sophie Kahn together with Japanese artists and groups: Dumb Type, Seiichi Furuya, Chie Matsui, Lieko Shiga and Kazuna Taguchi.

Performance Space, Sydney
Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 6:00pm
til Saturday, March 21, 2009 at 8:00pm
Street: 245 Wilson Street Eveleigh
City/Town: Sydney, Australia 
 
www.performancespace.com.au