MSSR at the Orebor International Video Art Festival, Sweden, 24th to 26th October 2008
MSSR curated a selection of Australian Video art for the Orebro International Video Art Festival in Sweden in October 2008. The festival was organised by Swedish art collective Art Video Screening in coorporation with Bio Roxy, Orebro Konsthall and Orebro Lans Museum. Countries also represented in the festival include Sweden, Iceland, Denmark, Serbia, Norway, USA, Bosnien and Herzegovina, Russia and Germany. Artists included in the show reel include Peter Alwast, Denis Beaubois, Chris Bennie, Nicola Chatham, Janice Kuczkowski, CLair Robertson, David M. Thomas and Jemima Wyman.
MSSR Presents Rachel Fuller 10th October 2008
Rachel Fuller grew up on a sheep and cattle property west of Coolah in Central West New South Wales. She currently lives and works in Sydney.In 2007 she graduated from Sydney College of the Arts with First Class Honours. She has exhibited widely in Sydney including shows at The Australian Centre for Photography. Rachel has spent a considerable amount of time overseas having studied at Universitat der Kunste in Berlin, Germany as well as undertaking an internship at Smack Mellon in New York, USA. Whilst in New York she also particpated in the studio program at The Gowanus Studio Space in Brooklyn, New York. She is currently a studio artist at Firstdraft in Sydney and a recipient of the Marten Bequest for Sculpture.
MSSR presesnts Scam Productions featuring Dave Smith with Rohan McCarthy and Brian Stanley 12th September 2008
Brisbane artist and teacher, Dave Smith, known for quirky paintings of quotidian subjects including daschunds, businessmen, Datsuns and donkeys will exhibit a suite of VHS movies for his MSSR solo exhibition. The six videos are a montage of individual sequences performed by SCAM Productions in the 1990’s.
Smith edited and transferred the footage to DVD from VHS tape specifically for this exhibition. Displayed on monitors situated throughout the MSSR house, the works explore diverse themes from the viewpoint of adolescents growing up with Australian television in the 90’s. Each of the vignettes reveal the candid explorations of three young men reinventing pop culture, cinema and celebrity.
Here Contemporary was to present sound performances by Lawrence English, Tom Hall, Daiji Igarashi and Narghile but got shut down by police at 6pm. No warning was granted and Chris Bennie from MSSR was placed under a twelve hour probation. Lawrence English's sound-objects were exhibited in the spare room. Tom Hall later performed an intimate sound piece in the MSSR DVD room to the remaining visitors. After his performance Tom spoke about his work and practice. Here Contemporary, in an unplanned way, connected artists with audiences intimately. Four police officers returned at 10:30pm but were misled and were quickly directed to the buck's party next door.
MSSR Presents Janice Kuczkowski Friday 6th June 2008
Brisbane artist Janice Kuzckowski is one of the cities leading proponants of moving image work. At MSSR the artist presented two new video installations that explore representations of the portrait image.
The MSSR DVD release event took place on Saturday 10th May at 105 Moreton St. New Farm and beagan at 7pm. This new double DVD contains video documentation of the MSSR artists installing and presenting their work, artist talks, interviews and extras. Selected scenes from the DVD's were played on MSSR's outdoor screen during the event.
Copies of the DVD are available to buy for $10 (+ $4 postage and packaging) please email mssrprojects to order copies. All proceeds help MSSR continue operating.
Event One was a daytime backyard dance party followed by a screening of contemporary video art after dark.
From 11am to after sunset the MSSR project backyard became an outdoor dancefloor. Music was played by Chris Bennie, Steve Mason (Geroitech), Sebastian Moody (Hendra Horse) and Craig Ward.
After dark a screening of contemporary video art produced by a selection of Australia's leading emerging and established artists was projected onto MSSR's outdoor cinema screen. New and recent work made by Tony Albert, Peter Alwast, Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan and Kawayan and Kidlat De Guia, Chris Bennie, Erin Coates, Nicola Chatham, Janice Kuczkowski, Leah McPhearson, Viv Miller, Scott Redford, and Giles Ryder was viewed by the 40 or so people that attended.