art
february 2007
1:36pm - 1:36pm
topic
Press Release 4
Fri 16th - Sun 18th | 10am - 6pm
Edge gallery
Newspaper, Perspex, Video | variable
Press Release' began by selecting a particular image from within the free commuter newspaper, which, after 6 years of circulation still does not have a recycling system in place.
A pictorial feature on Australasian Gannets featured around 6500 Gannets nests at Cape Kidnappers Bay in New Zealand, inspiring an interception of 6500 copies from the public realm.
The first process was an extraction of the relevant page, the second; hand-cutting out every gannet, and the third being a repeated 'release' performance.
By revealing these processes within the installation, the journey becomes as relevant as the art itself. The work could be seen as a reflection the use of on environmental resources (paper) - which itself signifies the depletion of wildlife habitat - in order to provide the public with comments on wildlife threatened by environmental degradation.
A pictorial feature on Australasian Gannets featured around 6500 Gannets nests at Cape Kidnappers Bay in New Zealand, inspiring an interception of 6500 copies from the public realm.
The first process was an extraction of the relevant page, the second; hand-cutting out every gannet, and the third being a repeated 'release' performance.
By revealing these processes within the installation, the journey becomes as relevant as the art itself. The work could be seen as a reflection the use of on environmental resources (paper) - which itself signifies the depletion of wildlife habitat - in order to provide the public with comments on wildlife threatened by environmental degradation.
Ash Keating
Press Release, is a mixed media & performance installation first shown at Dianne Tanzer gallery, Melbourne in Dec 2005. Press Release 2 was performed at MIR11 Melbourne March 06 and Press Release 3 was performed at the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago Chile in Oct 06.
Keating has performed his fourth release in front of the glass windows of BMW edge Federation Square for the Sustainable Living Festival 2007, and the film of this performance is part of an installation of process videos and hand cut newspaper gannets.
This is the final Melbourne release before performing a fifth release at Plimsoll Gallery Hobart in Mar/Apr 07, sixth release at Artspace in Sydney in May 07, seventh release at the Contemporary Art Center of South Australia in August 07, and a final release in New Zealand in 2008.
Keating has performed his fourth release in front of the glass windows of BMW edge Federation Square for the Sustainable Living Festival 2007, and the film of this performance is part of an installation of process videos and hand cut newspaper gannets.
This is the final Melbourne release before performing a fifth release at Plimsoll Gallery Hobart in Mar/Apr 07, sixth release at Artspace in Sydney in May 07, seventh release at the Contemporary Art Center of South Australia in August 07, and a final release in New Zealand in 2008.