SHAUN GLADWELL - ERROR #14: INTO THE LIGHT
2 Dec 2009
ERROR #14: 'INTO THE LIGHT 09'
2-12 DECEMBER
ANTWERP SOUTH
Video and light installations in public space,
with 2 museums and 5 galleries in Antwerp South
Opening Wednesday 2 December 2009 at 19.30h
Royal Museum of Fine Arts
Leopold de Waelplaats, 2000 Antwerp
20:30h: Performances Jean-Philippe Convert, Goele De Bruyn, Sylvester Anfang II
Marie José Burki (CH), Stefano Cagol (IT), Wim Catrysse (BE), Vaast Colson (BE), Jean-Philippe Convert (FR), Cel Crabeels (BE), Goele De Bruyn (BE), Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thijs (BE), Tamar Frank (NL), Shaun Gladwell (AU), Andreas Golinski (DE), Pepa Ivanova (BG), Ria Pacquée (BE), Nicolas Provost (BE), Wilhelm Sasnal (PL), Bart Stolle (BE), Joris Van De Moortel (BE), Angel Vergara (ES)
errorone.be
This second edition of Into the Light is an international project for contemporary art with video and light installations in public space in Antwerp South, in cooperation with the Royal Museum of Fine Art, Antwerp (KMSKA), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp (M HKA) Koraalberg Gallery, Maes & Matthys Gallery, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Tim Van Laere Gallery and Zeno X Gallery.
In this exhibition project, contemporary works of art are also exhibited in interaction with the city, on façades, windows, screens, trees and squares. Contemporary art will be shown in the city, in the community, with the surreptitious intent of artistically activating the urban environment. Into the Light 09 takes place in December, the perfect time to both literally and figuratively ‘light up’ the city: Into the Light serves to counteract the lack of light during the shortest and darkest days of the year.
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SHAUN GLADWELL
Apologies 1 – 6
2007–09
digital video, 16:9, stereo sound
cinematography: Gotaro Uematsu
courtesy the artist & Anna Schwartz Gallery
Apologies 1 – 6 is the central work in Shaun Gladwell’s MADDESTMAXIMVS series, a project that makes discursive references to a range of historical and contemporary cultural material. For instance, this video is a critique of the early work of Joseph Beuys, as well as Sidney Nolan’s Drought Series, and George Miller’s Mad Max film trilogy. Representations of abject road kill are depicted as existent, real phenomena against Beuys’ metaphysical and ‘shamanistic’ strategies in How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare (1965).
We observe an anonymous motorcycle rider encountering ‘road kill’ kangaroos on the side of desert highways in central Australia. The rider stops at the roadside where the dead animals lay, to enact a ritual that is repeated in each of the six sequences of the video. The ritual begins as the rider clears the carcass of insects and debris, before picking the body up and moving it across the highway for its final burial. With his/her head bent low, the rider appears to whisper to the animal as he/she crosses the road – performing a symbolic apology.
2-12 DECEMBER
ANTWERP SOUTH
Video and light installations in public space,
with 2 museums and 5 galleries in Antwerp South
Opening Wednesday 2 December 2009 at 19.30h
Royal Museum of Fine Arts
Leopold de Waelplaats, 2000 Antwerp
20:30h: Performances Jean-Philippe Convert, Goele De Bruyn, Sylvester Anfang II
Marie José Burki (CH), Stefano Cagol (IT), Wim Catrysse (BE), Vaast Colson (BE), Jean-Philippe Convert (FR), Cel Crabeels (BE), Goele De Bruyn (BE), Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thijs (BE), Tamar Frank (NL), Shaun Gladwell (AU), Andreas Golinski (DE), Pepa Ivanova (BG), Ria Pacquée (BE), Nicolas Provost (BE), Wilhelm Sasnal (PL), Bart Stolle (BE), Joris Van De Moortel (BE), Angel Vergara (ES)
errorone.be
This second edition of Into the Light is an international project for contemporary art with video and light installations in public space in Antwerp South, in cooperation with the Royal Museum of Fine Art, Antwerp (KMSKA), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp (M HKA) Koraalberg Gallery, Maes & Matthys Gallery, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Tim Van Laere Gallery and Zeno X Gallery.
In this exhibition project, contemporary works of art are also exhibited in interaction with the city, on façades, windows, screens, trees and squares. Contemporary art will be shown in the city, in the community, with the surreptitious intent of artistically activating the urban environment. Into the Light 09 takes place in December, the perfect time to both literally and figuratively ‘light up’ the city: Into the Light serves to counteract the lack of light during the shortest and darkest days of the year.
__
SHAUN GLADWELL
Apologies 1 – 6
2007–09
digital video, 16:9, stereo sound
cinematography: Gotaro Uematsu
courtesy the artist & Anna Schwartz Gallery
Apologies 1 – 6 is the central work in Shaun Gladwell’s MADDESTMAXIMVS series, a project that makes discursive references to a range of historical and contemporary cultural material. For instance, this video is a critique of the early work of Joseph Beuys, as well as Sidney Nolan’s Drought Series, and George Miller’s Mad Max film trilogy. Representations of abject road kill are depicted as existent, real phenomena against Beuys’ metaphysical and ‘shamanistic’ strategies in How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare (1965).
We observe an anonymous motorcycle rider encountering ‘road kill’ kangaroos on the side of desert highways in central Australia. The rider stops at the roadside where the dead animals lay, to enact a ritual that is repeated in each of the six sequences of the video. The ritual begins as the rider clears the carcass of insects and debris, before picking the body up and moving it across the highway for its final burial. With his/her head bent low, the rider appears to whisper to the animal as he/she crosses the road – performing a symbolic apology.
