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| CCP 5 Diverse New Exhibitions |
Melbourne’s leading venue for photo-based art, the Centre for Contemporary Photography opens
this Thursday night, 16 March at 6pm with five exciting new exhibitions; including a live
installation, white collar fantasies and a bumper curated exhibition. Grant Hobson comments on Australia’s latest industrial upheaval as Narinda Reeders reveals the fantasies of white collar workers, while Melissa Keys takes us on a walk through snow, ice and fog, Jarrad Kennedy sings an ode to family and friends and Fleur Summers’ credits roll through the night. Exhibition dates: 17 March – 6 May 2006 Exhibition opening: Thursday 16 March 6 - 8 pm FREE artists talks: Saturday 18 March, noon GALLERY 1 In the nineties, Grant Hobson documented the final hours of operation of many inner city industries in Melbourne. His latest body of work juxtaposes these images with text from current government rhetoric associated with the roll out of its WorkChoices legislation. The Industry of Working explores the impact of the changes in industrial explores the impact of the changes in industrial relations in the nineties with the intent of articulating the implications of Australia’s latest industrial upheaval. Presented as part of the sesquicentenary of the Eight Hour Day in Victoria, Hobson’s exhibition includes a live installation at the opening on Thursday 16 March at 6pm. GALLERY 2 In White Collar Undone, Narinda Reeders considers why we love to hate our white collar jobs. On her website www.whitecollarundone.com, Reeders calls for 9-to-5ers to submit their dreams, fears and apocalyptic fantasies of white collar work. These daydreams will be collated into a book exhibited with Reeders’ photographic translations of select fantasies. White Collar Undone is presented in association with the 2006 Next Wave Festival. GALLERY 3 In Cold Light Curated by Melissa Keys In Cold Light features the work of eight Australian and New Zealand photographers and video artists. Featuring images of ice, delicate veils of fog, wind, rain and snow–both real and imagined–the exhibition considers metaphorical concepts of winter and emotional, historical and poetic experience. Artists: Mark Adams, Donna Bailey, Ryszard Dabek, Petrina Hicks, Rebecca Ann Hobbs, Alex James, Anne Noble and Izabela Pluta. GALLERY 4 Emerging artist, Jarrad Kennedy continues his foray into performance video in Thank You, Friends. Inspired by Alex Chilton’s 1975 song of the same name, Thank You, Friends presents a video photo album of images taken by the artist, family, friends and unknown photographers, set to an a cappella vocal by the artist. PROJECTION WINDOW 7 DAYS AFTER DARK ? Like a production line, the text of Fleur Summers’ R+D, scrolls and loops through the night, continuously producing and reproducing itself. The work maps out a series of possibilities in the creative process of the artist. It attempts to systematise, institutionalise and objectify a series of ideas, images, proposed objects and possible installations. |
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Established in 1986 by the photographic community as a not-for-profit exhibition and resource centre, CCP has played a pivotal role in the support of photo-based arts and public engagement with photography.
The Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) is one of Australia’s premier venues for the exhibition of contemporary photo-based arts, providing a context for the enjoyment, education, understanding and appraisal of contemporary practice.
