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Hamburger boygroup 2000

Artwork Hamburger boygroup this artwork made of VHS-C transferred to DVD: 25 minutes, colour, sound, created in 2000-01-01
Accession No.
2009.094
Date Created
2000
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Contemporary Australian Art
Edition
ed. 4/4
Media Category
Electronic media
Secondary Media Category
digital file
Medium
VHS-C transferred to DVD: 25 minutes, colour, sound
Credit Line
Gift of the artist through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Tony Schwensen is one of Australia's foremost interdisciplinary artists and has made a long and distinguished series of performance works, often examining the underside of cultural life and notions of artistic value.

In the work Hamburger boygroup 2000 Schwensen is seen dancing to the 1999 song 'Keep on movin' by the British boy-band Five. Distilling boy-band dance moves down to a single repeated step, Schwensen breaks down twenty-first-century pop culture to the essence of performance with particular reference to the physical exertion and endurance associated with much performance art.

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