Punk Super 8 in Brisbane: Jeanelle Hurst, John Nixon, Gary Warner
Date: Friday 7 May 2010
Time: 6:45 for 7—9 pm
Location: Theatre A, Elisabeth Murdoch Building (located behind the Ian Potter Museum of Art)
What interests a Dadaist is the way he himself lives...
(Tristan Tzara, Dada Manifesto, 1920)
Mirroring street style and contemporaneous popular music, and paralleling key developments in other parts of the world, a distinct art practice emerged in Brisbane in the punk/post-punk art scenes of the early 1980s. Aware of, and informed by, international currents in post-structuralist thought and No-Wave music, radical Brisbane artists nonetheless critically restructured these developments to their own creative ends. Through hybrid, performance-based events involving music, film, installation and performance, the artists in this film program challenged the revered art object as the fetishistic depository of beauty, and, like the Dadaists their work has been compared to, celebrated the power and pleasure of the instantaneous moment. Made in an era of repressive conservative rule and general cultural stagnancy, these 'Brisbane Dada' films provide a fascinating glimpse into the lives of the artists who made them: Gary Warner, John Nixon, and Jeanelle Hurst.
Films will be screened in their original format by OtherFilm. Gary Warner's films will be accompanied by a live score performed by Ian Wadley. Danni Zuvela (OtherFilm) will introduce the films. This is an event of the exhibition MELBOURNE>
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