Friction

WHAT: Friction

WHEN: CLOSING EVENT: Saturday November 3, 6pm Public Access: Thursday Oct 25 to Saturday Nov 3 (Thur-Sat 11-5) WHERE: DON’T LOOK Experimental New Media Gallery 419 New Canterbury Rd (Near Marrickville Rd), Dulwich Hill, Sydney, NSW WHO: Eleanor Brickhill and Anne Walton

CONTACT: Greg Shapley – Ph: 0401 152 434EMAIL: dontlookgallery@gmail.com WEB: myspace.com/dontlookgallery

Friction

Eleanor Brickhill is a dancer and performance artist interested in the exploration of the body. Anne Walton is a video artist who works with site-specific human-scale projections and live presence. Together they will be presenting ‘Friction’ in October/November at Don’t Look Gallery.

Over four weeks Eleanor and Anne will create a dialogue between the very recent past and present by mapping imagery of their live performance in the gallery back on itself, affected and ‘acted’ upon in slight ways that seem mysterious and intriguing, and at times uncanny. The process of collaboration is a ‘site’ for them, a place to explore personal, material and even social boundaries. Through interrogation of the past by the present, present by the past, their experiences become hyper-sensory, almost raw to the touch.

Unlike traditional work whose end is marked by the beginning of its showing, ‘Friction’ is cumulative – it will begin with nothing and be created through events that occur in the space over time, and include visitations, overlaps, collisions and rubbings. In place of an opening, a ‘closing’ will celebrate some ideas explored throughout this time.

Public access will be from Thursday October 25 to Saturday November 3. CLOSING DRINKS: Saturday November 3, 2007