[spectre] EAF Info: MIKE STUBBS - BURNT

[EAF Director]

MIKE STUBBS
BURNT
OPENING 6PM THURSDAY 20 APRIL
GALLERY TALK 4PM FRIDAY 21 APRIL

Mike Stubbs' work encompasses film, video, mixed media installations, 
performance and curation.

Trained at Cardiff Art College and the Royal College of Art, in 2003 
Mike Stubbs was appointed Curatorial Manager at the Australian Centre 
for the Moving Image (ACMI), Melbourne, where he has been central to 
developing a broader and more popular exhibition program through 
producing such exhibitions as the blockbuster, Kubrick and curating 
Proof - The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes and the highly 
accoladed White Noise.

Stubbs' internationally commissioned artwork encompasses short art 
films for broadcast and media installations for galleries and large 
scale projections for public environs. Recent works include Jump 
Jet-a large scale outdoor projection and twin screen gallery 
installation made on location at RAF Wittering, UK, in 2003; Fuel-QUT 
Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane, 2005; Donut-permanently 
installed at The Energy Gallery, Science Museum, London; Zero-a film 
made with Gina Czarnecki using material shot in a zero gravity 
environment during a parabolic flight at the Yuri Gagarin Training 
Centre, Moscow. In 1999 he was invited to present a video 
retrospective of his work at the Tate Britain, London. In 2003 a 
selection of his work was featured at the Adelaide International Film 
Festival.

Stubbs has won more than a dozen major international awards. Recent 
prizes include: Videox, Zurich 2005; WRO Bienalle, Poland, 2005; and 
Echigo Tsumari Trienalle, 2003 for Cultural Quarter. In March 2004 he 
presented a diverse collection of new media installations at the 
Baltic Art Centre, Newcastle Gateshead, UK, and in the same year 
received a Fleck Fellowship, from Banff Art Centre, Canada.

"Stubbs's films are touching and poignant because they reveal the way 
in which obsessions, enthusiasms and hobbies are used by people to 
enshrine the aspirations that the bare facts of life can hardly ever 
live up to. Stubbs' work is marked by an understanding of aspiration, 
and of the individual's relationship with his/her dreams. Within this 
relationship Stubbs articulates the significance of home - a place." 
Lizzie Muller

Http://www.forma.org.uk/current_productions/cultural_quarter.html
http://www.imaging.dundee.ac.uk/people/mstubbs/index.htm

For further information contact EAF Director and Curator, Melentie 
Pandilovski: +61 (0)8 8311 7505.
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EXPERIMENTAL ART FOUNDATION curates its exhibition program to 
represent new work that expands current debates and ideas in 
contemporary visual art. The EAF incorporates a gallery space, 
bookshop and artists studios.

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The Experimental Art Foundation is assisted by the Commonwealth 
Government through the Australia Council, it arts funding and 
advisory body and by the South Australian Government through Arts SA. 
The EAF is also supported through the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, 
an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.