MERCER

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PROVISIONS

Kathryn Walter

4 November 1999 - 18 December 1999
Opening Reception 4 November 1999 8pm

Back Gallery: Provisions The sound loop – a repetitive machine noise – sets the scene immediately: industrial-age workshop or micro-factory. Those familiar with Kathryn Walter’s work will recall she has made various projects on development sites that are also sites of demolition. In these locations, the contradictory conditions of production/destruction form a backdrop. In Mercer […]

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IDA’S SECRETS

Lissa Robinson

4 November 1999 - 18 December 1999
Opening Reception 4 November 1999 8pm

Front Gallery: Ida’s Secrets Mass Hysteria A Secret elicits a desire to uncover the truth. The implications of something hidden appeals to our sense of curiosity and sense of adventure. We begin a journey, a process of discovery, by searching for clues… In Lissa Robinson’s installation Ida’s Secrets, our first clue is a pile of […]

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SELF PORTRAIT, LOANS FROM THE NVISIBLE MUSEUM

Francis Alys, Nobuyoshi Araki, Mark Pimlott, Liisa Roberts, Damien Hirst, Georgina Starr, Brad Kahlhamer, Sam Taylor-Wood, Emma Kay, Rachel Witeread, Steve McQueen, Zhang Huan

25 September 1999 - 31 October 1999
Opening Reception 25 September 1999 8pm

Interview with the anonymous for the anonymous, by Mercer Union, 21 August, 1999 MU: About yourself, what were you wearing when you thought of the idea? I was in London having a diet coke at Mark Pimlott’s studio in Old Street. Probably a Kiasma cap, Calvin Klein black t-shirt XL, old jeans with a pair […]

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TONY FEHER

Tony Feher

13 May 1999 - 26 June 1999
Opening Reception 13 May 1999 8pm

Project Room & Window: Tony Feher Slide presentation: Thursday, May 13, 1999, 7 pm Tony Feher creates sculptures with generic objects and materials of the most humble nature, often drawn from the daily urban environment. He reinterprets rules of seriality, arrangement and scale from Minimalist sculpture into pieces charged with emotion and a sense of […]

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ESCAPE FROM PHOTOGRAPHY

Mark Bell and Denise Hawrysio

13 May 1999 - 26 June 1999
Opening Reception 13 May 1999 8pm

Main Gallery: Escape from Photography Slide presentation: Wednesday, May 19, 1999: 7 pm Escape From Photography Photography is tyranny. Everyone knows this. From the unwitting victim of the surprise snapshot to the subjects of Bourke-White’s Auschwitz photographs immediately upon liberation, no one wishes to be photographed. To be photographed is to have one’s identity fixed […]

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IDORU

Amanda Steggell and Michelle Teran

1 April 1999 - 31 December 1999
Opening Reception 1 April 1999 8pm

Internet Broadcast: Idoru Who is the Idoru? This is where the Idorus Rala Froct and Mindoru meet, two fictional digital personalities who inhabit cyberspace. Rala Froct and Mindoru are the creations of artists Michelle Teran (Toronto, Canada) and Amanda Steggell (Oslo, Norway). In a series of web cam meetings, each artists will perform as their […]

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FAKING HISTORY

Daniel Bowden, Hanna Claus, Angela Inglis, Grant McConnell, Sally McKay, Alison Norlen, Steve Venright

Curated by Mary Anne Barkhouse & Reid Diamond

1 April 1999 - 8 May 1999
Opening Reception 1 April 1999 8pm

Main Gallery: Faking History Nobody ever suggests that there was anything interesting going on before our planet came along, just a lot of solids and liquids, a lot of heating and cooling and spinning around, and a lot of splitting and rejoining of things. – Sally McKay, How it all Began… SCIENTISTS have recently discovered […]

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360 MILES APART

Rocco Turino

18 February 1999 - 27 March 1999
Opening Reception 18 February 1999 12am

Window: 360 Miles Apart If mom was a doctor serves as a basis for 360 Miles Apart. The work derives from repeated periods of convalescence in between doses of media. One acquires a new relationship to their environment when immobilized temporarily and in that process discovers bed rest to be a tiring occupation. Your room […]

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LEAVING ROOM FOR MOVEMENT AND MAKING ROOM FOR MOVEMENT

Clint Griffin

18 February 1999 - 27 March 1999
Opening Reception 18 February 1999 8pm

Project Room: Leaving room for movement and making room for movement I am surprised in the space where people meet, surprised we do not knock into each other. Patterns or beliefs and behaviours leave room and make room with the help of others, subtly going back and forward following order between orders and ordering acts […]

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THE INTRICATE POTENTIAL OF THE KNOWN

Elana Herzog and Dianna Frid

18 February 1999 - 27 March 1999
Opening Reception 18 February 1999 8pm

Main Gallery The Intricate Potential of the Known There are several things the works of Elana Herzog and Dianna Frid have in common. They both use fabric as their main material. They both create evocative montages, objects or sculptures that can be of unwieldy beauty and irritating appearance. They both subvert the meaning and purpose […]

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Lecture: Francesco Conz.

February 10, 1999 Francesco Conz maintains an important archive and collection of contemporary art, located in Verona, Italy. He is also a publisher and photographer who worked with most members of FLUXUS since the 60’s. But his range of interest is very much wider than that from concreate sound and poetry to the Vienna Actionists […]

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PATICIU CALIMENTE

Patriciu Calimente

8 January 1999 - 14 February 1999
Opening Reception 8 January 1999 8pm

Window: Patriciu Calimente The Provincial Lunatic Asylum was designed very much in the style of a grand estate at the edge of the urban centre. It was thought to be beneficial to its occupants and was part of a reform movement in the treatment of the mentally ill. Its design was much removed from the […]

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INTERFACE

Michael Buchanan

8 January 1999 - 14 February 1999
Opening Reception 8 January 1999 8pm

Project Room: Interface I am interested in the place where people or objects meet and in their potential to communicate and be altered through their interactions. Two elements compose this work. The first element is a video projection of a computer-rendered mouse. He attempts to escape the frame of the projection and like Sisyphus is […]

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IT, AND ALL THE REST OF IT

Gretchen Sankey

8 January 1999 - 14 February 1999
Opening Reception 8 January 1999 6pm

Main Gallery: It, and all the rest of it Part One Clint Eastwood pulled out his rifle and aimed it at Roxy. Everybody screamed. The movie theater had gone darker than was intended for normal visual consumption. But soon it became obvious that it was more extensive than just the absence of projected light. Even […]