Three years ago Carriageworks began a groundbreaking, new project. The contemporary arts centre commissioned 24 artists to create artworks relating to performance. The resulting exhibition has now opened.
’24 Frames Per Second’ features 24 artwork installations occupying Carriageworks’ cavernous space until August 2nd.
“The distinctive spaces of Carriageworks offer a platform that exists beyond the dance studio, black box, or white cube,” says Beatrice Gralton, the exhibition’s co-curator.
Walking into the dark exhibition space, guests are greeted with mesmerizing scenes playing on loop on an oversized screen. Women thrash their heads, their long hair swinging in abandon. The camera is zoomed; the footage is slowed. The film is utterly entrancing.
This is the work of Australian artist Angelica Mesiti. The Parisian-based artist explored the tradition of the Nakh dance, a ceremonial wedding dance in which the bride’s female attendants thrash their hair to enter a trance-like state.
Angelica’s ‘Nakh removed’ is one of the 24 diverse artworks installed in the space. Each piece is an opportunity to showcase the major international and Australian artists and performers working in the unique intersecting space of film, dance and visual art.
“24 Frames Per Second explores the integrated nature of contemporary art practice which, in recent years, has seen dance and live performance infiltrate the institutional spaces of the museum,” says exhibition co-curator Nina Miall.
For more information visit www.carriageworks.com.au.
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