[spectre] 'Tensions' at Experimental Art Foundation

[Melentie Pandilovski]

Description
Sound artist Tristan Louth-Robins and new-media arts collective Shoot,
Jen Brazier, Charissa Davies, Edward James and Ryan Sims together with
guest artist Lauren Playfair, have collaborated to produce 'Tensions'.

With original soundscapes, installation and performative projected
imagery the exhibition explores emotion and tension through the use of
personal technological devices — what they transmit, store and
receive, the emotional implications for the user, and how this
ultimately influences society.

'Tensions' examines specifically how the omnipresence and application
of communication technology affects the way information is
disseminated, emotions are received and perceived, and the many ways
new (electronic) languages are interpreted. A major component of the
exhibition investigates the idea that transmissions of invisible,
emotionally charged data – mobile phone calls, sms, emails – across
public environments affects the emotions of passive recipients as the
data passes through their bodies (e-motion).

"...This is new architecture. We make our homes in representations of
ourselves, replete with intricate patterns of zeros and ones,
radiation that hangs around us like delicate lace, and conversations
that stutter and stop in private parcels of abbreviated text."
Lauren Tomczak, catalogue essay.

Curated by Melentie Pandilovski

Exhibition opening night:
Thursday 25 June @ 6pm

Exhibition dates:
26 June to 25 July 2009

Opening hours:
11-5 Tuesday-Friday, 2-5 Saturday, Closed Sundays, Mondays & Public Holidays

Visit the EAF website for more information
http://www.eaf.asn.au/2009/lrsc.html

Image: 'untitled', by Charissa Davies

Credits: Ade Suharto - Dance performance

Thanks to Melentie Pandilovski & EAF staff, Libby Raupach, Mark Lloyd,
Kris Lloyd
Thanks also to Coriole Vineyards & Woodside Cheese Wrights, South Australia