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Traces of Entertainment
Posted by 'Pong in Photography, Travel on 12/10/2009
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The place we stayed in Newcastle is just across the road from this demolished site. From what I explored, it use to be a complex of: a boxing gym, a pub, a bottle shop and a food shop. It apparently was a background of Marcus Westbury’s interview with State Line and a place for some blokes and pigeons to live in.
So Long Cathy
Posted by 'Pong in Art, Movies, Photography, Study on 07/09/2008
To satisfy my obsession and to deal with the flood of photo shots of junk on the streets of Sydney, I make another work to send in Video Art at CoFA for the loop project. It is about a year when I first one of the series in the workshop with Metro Screen, Anywhere Chairs and then Waif.
This time my subject is dead TVs and I push myself up a notch by doing it frame by frame like animation. It is finished a week in advance before the class viewing because the evening clashes with Marrickville Art Prize opening night. But it has not been shown the to class yet. So yes, you see it before it is official. Unfornately, the compression cannot cope wih a video that changes almost every frame like this one. However, you can see the better encoding version in Quicktime Movie. Be warned that the file is fairly large (11Mb) for a 30-second movie.
So Long Cathy from ApostrophePong on Vimeo.
I was wondering if you would be mesmerised by it when see in loop on a CRT television. I will let you know when I find the best place for a proper public viewing.
The Echoes of Pain
Posted by 'Pong in Art, Exhibition, Photography on 19/08/2008
One of the hi lights of Biennale of Sydney on Cockatoo Island is Mike Parr video installations in one of the abandoned office building. It is a collection of 30 years of his artist career. He uses his body to explore pain and violence as a part of human being. It is not pretty. It is a spook house that really hits you with reality. Once you enter inside, the stairs and hallway lead you to each room of presentation with brutal imageries and inescapable sound. And there is now way you can skip one. It is about our own nature of curiosity. The you can still feel the irritation lingering in your soul when get out.
Anyway, the building itself is like a time capsule. Traces of activities are left as it was. One who feels Mike Parr’s works are too much to handle can distract themselves and just enjoy the history.
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Cockatoo Island
Posted by 'Pong in Photography, Sydneyscape on 04/08/2008
Cathedral-like Turbine Hall
Biennale of Sydney this year is pretty interesting with the inclusion of Cockatoo Island as one of the venues. It was a prison, then turned into a navy base and finally closed down in 1992. The Sydney Harbour Federation Trust is now in charge of the biggest island in the harbour. Sydney is very good in converting its landscape into a playground and this place is suitable for it. It hosts some music events and parties as if we do not have enough in this city. However, the trip to the island by old timber ferry alone is worth enough to go out in the lovely afternoon.
This location is like a museum by itself. When it is put in as the backdrop of an art exhibition, the two things are competing to get my attention. I will put some thoughts about Biennale of Sydney, Revolution – Forms That Turn, later. Because I always have a hot for run-down and abandoned sites, here is the first bit of my journey to Cockatoo Island.
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Right Here, Waiting
Posted by 'Pong in Dump of the Day, Photography on 20/07/2008
It is a favourite spot to put a chair in front of the house.
21 April 2008
Newington Road, Marrickville
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