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There is no there 2015

Accession No.
2016.426
Date Created
2015
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Contemporary Australian Art
Edition
ed. 1/3 (2 APs)
Media Category
Electronic media
Secondary Media Category
HD video
Medium
Single-channel HD digital video: 10:20 minutes, black and white, sound, 16:9
Sound: Daniel Jenatsch, Costume: Anna Macfarlane, Colour grading: Kali Bateman
Place Created
Australia
Credit Line
Purchased 2016. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation

Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano often use improvised choreography to emphasise gesture, process and sculptural forms in their video works. There is no there 2015 was inspired by the Blue Blouse movement, a Soviet Union theatre collective (1924–32) that developed a type of performance called ‘Living Newspapers’, which brought the news of the day to the Soviet people. Drawing on this legacy, the performers enact simple, choreographed gestures and movements that the artists have gathered from news articles and images, and from observations of the broader social and political climate. With this work, the artists propose ‘the body as protest or the body as witness’.

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© Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano

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Anida Yoeu Ali / Cambodia/USA b.1974 / The Buddhist Bug, Into the Night (still) (detail) 2015 / A project of Studio Revolt. Concept and performance: Anida Yoeu Ali; Video: Masahiro Sugano / Commissioned for APT8. The Kenneth and Yasuko Myer Collection of Contemporary Asian Art. Purchased 2015 with funds from Michael Sidney Myer through the QAGOMA Foundation / Collection: QAGOMA / © Anida Yoeu Ali

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Nov 2015 - Apr 2016

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