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Harun Farocki
Übertragung
(
Transmission
) 2007
harun Farocki uses documentary
filmmaking to engage with the politics
of images.
Ubertragung
(
Transmission
) —
acquired through the John darnell bequest
— records processions and pilgrimages
to sites of social, political and religious
significance. the attraction and veneration
of these sites reflects a range of desires
and acts of identification, from individual
memory to spiritual practice.
in emphasising the urge to connect
with objects of worship,
Ubertragung
(
Transmission
) highlights the complex
relationship between a search for healing
and an inability to comprehend larger forces
and events without some kind of mediation.
Harun Farocki
/ Czech Republic/Germany b.1944 /
Übertragung
(
Transmission
) (still) 2007 / Digital video transferred to hard drive,
colour, stereo, 43 minutes, Germany; AP 1/1 / Purchased 2011. John
Darnell Bequest
Phil Collins
the meaning of style
2011
drawing on his own experiences of growing
up in northern england in the 1970s and
1980s, phil collins explores the way that
music, dancing and fandom transcend race,
class, language and locality.
the meaning
of style
focuses on malaysia’s small, but
vibrant, skinhead subculture and takes the
form of a dreamlike pop music video, set to
a soundtrack by welsh musician gruff rhys.
the work follows no clear narrative, but
contains several visually striking scenes,
including a tableau set in penang’s cheong
Fatt tze (‘blue’) mansion, where boys sit
reading vintage english music magazines,
listening to music and playing cards. one
boy opens a box of butterflies, which alight
on the heads and shoulders of the group,
creating a visual allegory of youth’s desire
for flamboyant display.
Phil Collins
/ England b.1970 /
themeaningofstyle
(still) 2011 /
16mm film transferred to HD video: 16:9, 5:00 minutes, colour, stereo /
Purchased 2011. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation
michael sailstorfer
Wolken
(
Clouds
) 2010
michael sailstorfer has developed a
distinctive approach to sculpture drawing
on the legacies of minimalism, Fluxus, land
art and the ‘readymade’. sailstorfer’s early
works were notable for their extraordinary
transformation of found objects and sites.
For example,
Schlagzeug
2003 remodeled
a german police car into a drum kit and
Sternschnuppe
2002 involved firing a
streetlamp from a rocket to resemble
a shooting star.
Wolken
(
Clouds
) — acquired with funds from
tim Fairfax,
am
, through the Queensland art
gallery Foundation — is made of over 300
black inner tubes. its impact derives from its
materiality: the smell of rubber; the mass
of black, bulbous floating shapes; and the
heavy looking, forms create a compelling
interplay between weight and volume. there
is a strong romantic sensibility to the work in
its evocation of landscape and the brooding
atmosphere of an impending storm.
Michael Sailstorfer
/ Germany b.1979 /
Wolken
(
Clouds
) (detail) 2010 /
Tyre inner tubes / Installed dimensions variable / Purchased 2011
with funds from Tim Fairfax,
am
, through the Queensland Art Gallery
Foundation / Installation view: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen,
Düsseldorf, 2010 / Photograph: Achim Kukulies
oPPosITe
Michael Sailstorfer
/
Wolken
(
Clouds
) 2010 / Purchased 2011 with
funds from Tim Fairfax,
am
, through the
Queensland Art Gallery Foundation /
Installation view: Kunstsammlung
Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 2010 /
Photograph: Achim Kukulies
