Combine: Janet Burchill, Jennifer McCamley, Melinda Harper: special film screening at Heide Museum of Modern Art
14 Feb 2008
Sunday 24 February 2008
3.00pm
A final opportunity to view the exhibition in Heide 2 with the artists
3.45pm
Screening of 3 films from the 1980’s by Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley in the Sidney Myer Education Centre in the garden
STORY OF A WOMAN WHO…WAS TRAPPED IN A SOCIOLOGICAL NIGHTMARE, 1983, super 8, colour, sound, 7 mins
BATHGIRLS '84, 1984, super 8, colour, sound, 12 mins
OFFCUTS, 1982, super 8, colour, silent, 7 mins
"These early 80's films are fascinating for their politics, their tough post-punk and post-modern aesthetic, the raucous performances and rants against obligatory motherhood and national identity imperatives in the case of "Story of a woman who…." and the staging of an encounter between Warhol's Tub girls and Lacan and Genet's Papin sisters in Bathgirls '84…….. …"
Dominic Eichler, (excerpt from Devotee catalogue, Cabinet Gallery, London, 2007)
3.00pm
A final opportunity to view the exhibition in Heide 2 with the artists
3.45pm
Screening of 3 films from the 1980’s by Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley in the Sidney Myer Education Centre in the garden
STORY OF A WOMAN WHO…WAS TRAPPED IN A SOCIOLOGICAL NIGHTMARE, 1983, super 8, colour, sound, 7 mins
BATHGIRLS '84, 1984, super 8, colour, sound, 12 mins
OFFCUTS, 1982, super 8, colour, silent, 7 mins
"These early 80's films are fascinating for their politics, their tough post-punk and post-modern aesthetic, the raucous performances and rants against obligatory motherhood and national identity imperatives in the case of "Story of a woman who…." and the staging of an encounter between Warhol's Tub girls and Lacan and Genet's Papin sisters in Bathgirls '84…….. …"
Dominic Eichler, (excerpt from Devotee catalogue, Cabinet Gallery, London, 2007)
