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Media Release - The Unquiet World - Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) The Unquiet World
| The Unquiet World, opening on May 27 at ACCA, is a new exhibition of art from the world’s trouble spots. International artists reflect upon current and past disasters created by human intervention, and sometimes nature, to seek a sense of understanding during these unsettled times. Artists from Afghanistan to Belfast, the USA to Pakistan, from Australia to the world and back, deliver profound and moving, and sometimes ironic insights on pressing contemporary issues.
The exhibition includes:
• Scottish artist Nathan Coley’s documentary film The Jerusalem Syndrome, which explores the bizarre mental syndrome whereby visitors to Jerusalem become convinced they are characters from the Bible.
• Renowned American artist Jenny Holzer’s potent word projections, lit up on ACCA’s exterior at night.
• Three video projects from Afghan artist Lida Abdul, each an examination of the relationship between architecture and identity in post-war Afghanistan.
• Entries from the ‘Bagdad Blogger’ Salman Pax, whose daily blog on the realities of life in Iraq have gained him international attention.
• Palestinian artist Kamal Aljafari’s poetic film about present day Geneva, featuring interviews with locals about their opinions on the abandoned Swiss office of Iraqi Airways.
There will also be works from Ursula Biemann (Switzerland), Mutlu Çerkez, Marco Fusinato, Callum Morton, Susan Norrie, George Gittoes, Peter Tyndal, Sandra Johnston (Belfast), Louisa Bufardeci, Simon Perry and Marianne Baillieu.
“The Unquiet World reflects the turmoil and uncertainty of our times, and shows how humans deal with a world that is unpredictable and in a state of flux,” says Juliana Engberg, curator of the exhibition and Artistic Director of ACCA.
“The exhibition features a range of mediums, but a predominant one is the moving image, it being a highly effective, portable and direct way of documenting history. Video has in many ways, as this show demonstrates, revived social realism in art. From Nathan’s film about frenzied devotion, to Ursula Biemann’s dangerous journey along the Black Sea diaspora, Lida Abdul’s fearless return to Afganistan and Sandra Johnston’s requiem for the Irish ‘troubles’, artists are putting themselves on the line to record and intersect with history.”
The Unquiet World
May 27 – July 23, 2006
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
111 Sturt Street, Southbank
Tuesday to Friday 10am - 5pm.
Saturday and Sunday 11am - 6pm
Mondays by appointment.
Tel: 03 9697 9999.
Admission: Free.
www.accaonline.org.au
For further media information: Katrina Hall on 03 9697 9999, mobile 0421 153 046 or email khall@accaonline.org.au
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