[spectre] EAFinfo: IAN HAIG

[EAF Director]

IAN HAIG
THE DIRT FACTORY
EXPERIMENTAL ART FOUNDATION
Opening 6pm Thursday 14 April to 14 May 2005
11-5 Tues-Fri, 2-5 Sat

GALLERY TALK 4.30pm Friday 15 April

Ian Haig is one of Australia's leading new media artists. Throughout 
the past two decades his works have featured in more than 120 media 
art festivals worldwide. Prestigious venues and events include Centre 
Pompidou, Art Museum of China, Seventh International Symposium on 
Electronic Art-Netherlands, and Museum of Contemporary Art-Sydney, 
Australian National Gallery-Canberra, Australian Centre for the 
Moving Image-Melbourne. In 2003-04 he was awarded a New Media Arts 
Board of the Australia Council Fellowship.
The Dirt Factory follows the ongoing trajectory in Haig's work of the 
exploration of our relationship to the everyday world.
The Dirt Factory is a perverse exploration on the theme of 
constipation and the contemporary health pre-occupation of detoxing 
and cleansing, and its origins in theories of autointoxication, 
colonic irrigation, and the development of the cornflakes breakfast 
cereal.
Autointoxication was a belief in the late nineteenth and early 
twentieth century that saw constipation and irregular use of the 
bowel as poisoning the body and the basis of many forms of disease in 
society. The theory was espoused by Dr John Harvey Kellogg, a Seventh 
Day Adventist and founder of the Cornflakes breakfast cereal company 
who was himself addicted to enemas.
The Dirt Factory will look at the ideas of the toilet as an extension 
of the human digestive system, the human body as plumbing, the inner 
body vs the outer body, the notion of faeces as an organic reminder 
of our own mortality, detoxing and the idea of removing the inner 
self, dirt vs cleanliness and its connections to high culture/low 
culture.
Further information about the works of Ian Haig can be found at www.ianhaig.net

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EXPERIMENTAL ART FOUNDATION curates its exhibition program to 
represent new work that expands current debates and ideas in 
contemporary visual art. The EAF incorporates a gallery space, 
bookshop and artists studios.

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Director: Melentie Pandilovski  Administrator: Julie Lawton
Program Manager: Michael Grimm Bookshop Manager: Ken Bolton

The Experimental Art Foundation is assisted by the Commonwealth 
Government through the Australia Council, it arts funding and 
advisory body, by the South Australian Government through Arts SA, 
and through the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the 
Australian, State and Territory Governments. The EAF is proudly 
smoke-free.