Gabriella & Silvana Mangano in Once More With Feeling, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery
23 Apr 2009
Featuring: Veronica Kent and Sean Peoples (The Telepathy Project), Timothy Kendall Edser, Bridie Lunney, Sarah Lynch, Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano, Alex Martinis Roe and David Simpkin
Curated by Meredith Turnbull
Exhibition dates: 24 April to 23 May
Opening: Thursday 23 April 6–8 PM
1960s and 1970s performance art has been a seminal influence on contemporary art as we know it. Chris Burden, Valie Export, Paul McCarthy and Bruce Nauman are just a few examples of progenitors of Performance Art as a movement. More recently artists like Mike Parr, Jill Orr, Stelarc and many others have provided significant Australian contributions to this ongoing discourse. Once More with Feeling brings together a diverse group of nine Melbourne based performance and video art practitioners to unravel why this art form is so important today and to provide a local and contemporary perspective on this discussion. As an audience, our experience of Performance Art is often mediated through viewing surviving video and documentation of original live performances. Once More with Feeling attempts to devolve this sense of art historical and museological archive by exploring how that perspective can infuse performance art being made today.
Curated by Meredith Turnbull
Exhibition dates: 24 April to 23 May
Opening: Thursday 23 April 6–8 PM
1960s and 1970s performance art has been a seminal influence on contemporary art as we know it. Chris Burden, Valie Export, Paul McCarthy and Bruce Nauman are just a few examples of progenitors of Performance Art as a movement. More recently artists like Mike Parr, Jill Orr, Stelarc and many others have provided significant Australian contributions to this ongoing discourse. Once More with Feeling brings together a diverse group of nine Melbourne based performance and video art practitioners to unravel why this art form is so important today and to provide a local and contemporary perspective on this discussion. As an audience, our experience of Performance Art is often mediated through viewing surviving video and documentation of original live performances. Once More with Feeling attempts to devolve this sense of art historical and museological archive by exploring how that perspective can infuse performance art being made today.
