Past event
Exhibition
Shaun Gladwell: Stereo Sequences
1 Jun – 14 Aug 2011
Endoscopic Vanitas (No Veins Version) is a reworking of a past work, originally exhibited in 2009 at the Venice Biennale, commissioned for the exhibition Shaun Gladwell: Stereo Sequences in 2011.
In the centre of the room a single human skull hangs suspended by a metal frame. An endoscopic camera moves inside the skull, a second explores its exterior. The images captured by the two cameras are projected onto separate screens, the first a mist screen that sits at the entrance to the room creating a permeable barrier to the cavernous space behind, the second a simple LCD screen inside the room. These images appear abstract, suggestive, lunar. Gladwell is playing with the time-honoured trope of the momento mori, as well as with Plato’s ‘allegory of the cave’.
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Previously on display
14 August 2011
ACMI: Gallery 1
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ACMI Identifier
Z000073
Subject category
Digital Art
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
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Variable (depending on installation)
Object Types
Installation
Materials
Multi-channel installation, plastic skull, endoscopic cameras, mechanised mount, transformer, fog machine and projection