Louise Curham and Lucas Ihlein – Australia
Measuring Up: Illustrating this comment and this page of sketches and calculations, I’m posting these photos to show how we worked out the relative dimensions of the mirror/screen. Not very complicated! Lucas’ armspan (188cm) was assumed to be similar to Guy’s – thus, we reasoned, Lucas would use a “full-size” mirror of 24X32 inches (61X81.3cm). …
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Yesterday we started to prep ourselves to actually shoot the work. We looked very closely at the preview material – Lux preview tape, Lyn’s documentation on YouTube, the rough ‘telecine’ we made up in Brisbane from Guy’s actual film strip literally minutes before he used it for his performance. We also found part of the …
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Louise and I have finally begun the practical work of re-enacting Guy Sherwin’s Man with Mirror (1976-2009). We’ve been looking and thinking about this work for several years now. In August 2008 we spent some time with Guy, when he came to Australia. We saw him performing the piece in Brisbane, and we had a …
Thoughts in haste from today: 1. An important aspect of Guy’s method and point of connection for Curham seems to be open curiosity; discovering through doing; at outset don’t know outcome; finding/discovering work/image with camera in hand. Railings for example seems a study of what will happen if? The if is printing the image which …
Some information I have discovered while here in Yokohama: MIACA – Moving Image Archive of Contemporary Art http://www.miaca.org/english/news/index.html Videoart Center, Tokyo http://www.vctokyo.org/j/about/ (Japanese – Google for a web page translation Japanese to English) Art Autonomy Network http://www.a-a-n.org/top_e.htm And for the Expanded Cinema heads, Jun’ichi OKUYAMA For example: Cut-Off movie, 1969 16mm 9min. A film 9 …
The Teaching & Learning Cinema invites you to “THIS TIME“, a film screening this Sunday, April 1st, 2007 6.30pm for a 7pm start at ˜Sydney”, Cleveland St (next to Fatima’s) (see http://officialsydney.com) The screening follows along from a residency that Lucas Ihlein and Louise Curham have been doing in the majestic Track 12 at Performance …
A few folks who we invited to experience our private “screening” of Long Film for Ambient Light have begun to filter back with their thoughts after the event. Mike and Deborah visited in its last half hour, late Saturday morning the 17th of March. Mike sent us these thoughts:
[Lucas and Flemo about 9pm on Friday 16 March, photo by Peter Shaw taken from outside Track 12] A few folks who we invited to experience our private “screening†of Long Film for Ambient Light have begun to filter back with their thoughts after the event. First cab off the rank is Flemo. Thanks for …
Long Film for Ambient Light related dream, 23 march 2007, 5.30am: This bizarre dream popped up about 5 days after we did our experiment with Long Film. Talk about mental residue. Remember, all characters are fictional and their resemblance to any person living or dead etc…xx Lucas We’re in New York and Anthony McCall is …
16 march 2007 noon (written at 1.30pm) I pressed go on the timer. Set it to 23 hours 59 minutes. But we still were setting up, so didn’t really take the moment to just be here. Kat was still vacuuming. The space felt clean and neat, there was a “coming into clarity” about the whole …
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