[spectre] ENDLESS SUMMER / INTIMATE TRANSACTIONS

[EAF Director]

Opening at the Experimental Art Foundation 6pm Thursday 28th August:

ENDLESS SUMMER (sunglasses & the spectacle of vision)
Lily Hibberd

Endless Summer chronicles one man’s obsession with sunglasses. The  
exhibition consists of a sequence of portraits of the man wearing his  
collection of sunglasses, in which each of the 37 images is the same  
except he’s wearing a different pair, one for every summer of his life.

The gallery space is constructed as a viewing experience with two  
floor-to-ceiling tinted acrylic panels that can be looked though like  
lenses. A voice-over monologue accompanies the installation, with the  
man recollecting his summers past, including his childhood in Croatia,  
as he tries on each pair.

The work sets up a comparison between sunglasses, photography and  
vision, exploring the implications of the lens and framing, as well as  
the varying capacities of each to contain time and memorialise. Adopted  
by twentieth-century fashion and celebrity culture, sunglasses are  
revealing embodiments and representations of human desire. Endless  
Summer looks at the psychological and cultural aspects of sunglasses,  
focusing on their status as objects and instruments of altered  
perception, from both sides of the lens.
Lily Hibberd is a visual artist who works with painting, photography  
and installation. She has held elevean solo exhibitions since 1998, in  
Perth, Sydney and Melbourne. As founding editor of un Magazine, she is  
actively involved in the publication of arts writing and is a frequent  
contributor to various visual art forums. Lilly Hibberd is represented  
by Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne and is a current resident of  
Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces.
Artist’s website www.lilyhibberd.com/
On eafweb eaf.asn.au/2008/hibberd.html 
Enquiries info at eaf.asn.au


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INTIMATE TRANSACTIONS
Transmute Collective
     Keith Armstrong (Artistic Director)
      Lisa O’Neill
        Guy Webster

Intimate Transactions  is an interactive exhibition in which visitors  
can communicate through virtual space with a person in another city, or  
another state, or another country.

The person you want to interact with is in another location. You can  
only communicate using your body. You and your partner have the same  
new technology at your disposal – ‘smart furniture’ (called the  
Bodyshelf) that is embedded with an array of sensors that detect your  
movements and reflect them as two moving shapes on large screens.  
Everything you do influences an evolving ‘world’ created from digital  
imagery, multi-channel sound and tactile feedback. You are both part of  
a new and beautiful virtual space; a delicate digital ecology.

This is not a scene from a sci-fi film. This is Intimate Transactions,  
a new form of networked multimedia installation that allows two people  
in geographically separate spaces to interact simultaneously using only  
their bodies. With the support of Museum and Gallery Services  
Queensland this exciting new media exhibition is touring to partnered  
venues throughout Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South  
Australia opening simultaneously at the Experimental Art Foundation and  
Wagga Wagga City Gallery 6pm Thursday 28 August.

The exhibition evolved from experiments by Dr Keith Armstrong, Lisa  
O’Neill and Guy Webster, an interdisciplinary team of artists and  
researchers who form the ‘Transmute Collective’ based in Brisbane. 


Opening simultaneously at the Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, &  
Wagga Wagga Art Gallery 
Opening 6pm Thursday 28 August 2008
Dates    29 August –19 September
Hours 12-3pm Tues-Fri and 2.30-4.30pm Sat 13th September
Bookings Essential. Call the EAF on 82117505


Intimate transactions website www.intimatetransactions.com 
On eafweb eaf.asn.au/2008/armstrong.html 
For local interviews and exhibition related media enquiries please  
contact the eaf info at eaf.asn.au
For tour enquiries please contact Fiona Marshall, Museum & Gallery  
Services, Queensland. Email:  fiona.marshall at amgsq.com.au. Phone: 07  
3215 0826

This exhibition is toured by Museum and Gallery Services Queensland and  
supported by Visions of Australia, an Australian Government Program  
supporting touring exhibitions by providing funding assistance for the  
development and touring of Australian cultural material across  
Australia. 




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Melentie Pandilovski
Director
Experimental Art Foundation
Lion Arts Centre, North Terrace (West End), Adelaide, South Australia
PO Box 8091, Station Arcade, South Australia 5000
T: +61 (0)8 82117505
F: +61 (0)8 82117323
director at eaf.asn.au
www.eaf.asn.au