[spectre] EAF info: JAMES GEURTS - 90 Degrees Equatorial Project

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JAMES GEURTS
90 Degrees Equatorial Project

Opening 6pm Thursday 19 April-19 May
Gallery talk 4pm Friday 20 April
EXPERIMENTAL ART FOUNDATION

90 Degrees Equatorial Project combines three 
aspects of Geurts' practice - photography, video 
and site-specific installations. The works are 
primarily abstract documentation generated by 
situated on-site performance. Geurts works with 
video by manipulating live feed to force errors 
in the recording process. Abstraction of 
real-time into video static opens the possibility 
of unexpected relationships between visual and 
aural elements.

"At four equal sites on the equator, a corner of 
a right angle plastic frame pierces the skin of 
the landscape to give the illusion of a frame 
that passes through the earth. I developed a 
portable sculpture in the form of a 90-degree 
frame, which was set up at the four sites and 
photographed. The frame is made from fabricated 
plastic and internally lit with fluorescent 
light." James Geurts

The project worked at four locations which are 90° apart :
100° East - Pandang, Sumatra, Indonesia
10° East - Libreville, Gabon, Africa
80° West - Perneldes, Equador, South America
170° East - Kirimatti Atoll, Pacific Ocean

"James Geurts' recent works have included moving 
projections that are abstract and powerfully 
ambient-an amniotic surround of pulse and 
pattern- and works that resemble more closely 
filmic narrative vignette-as well as static works 
that are akin to traditional painting and 
sculpture. They work singly and, assembled, 
aggregate effectively as installation." Ken Bolton

Melbourne-based James Geurts's art practice 
includes site-specific works, installation, 
video, photography and drawing. James explores 
human language and intervention with landscape. 
In 2006 James completed Artesian, multi-screen 
video installation, funded by the Australian Film 
Commission; Tidemark (2) site-specific works at 
Canvas International Art Gallery Amsterdam; 
Gravitas, public projection video work, Project 
3, Adelaide Festival of Arts; SPAN Gallery, 
Melbourne; Picnic, video installation at Conical 
Gallery, Melbourne; Bastards of Paradise, 
Greenaway Art Gallery Adelaide. Other recent 
exhibitions include Reception, 2004 Adelaide 
Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South 
Australia; Suburban Edge, Australian Centre for 
Photography 2004-06; Tidemark, (in collaboration 
with Brussel's sound artist Hans de Man, Foton) 
Greenaway Art Gallery 2004. Other recent screen 
based works include: Limbo, Luminosity public 
projection commission, Adelaide and Federation 
Square Melbourne 2006; White wash, Art Gallery of 
South Australia 2005; Shellfish/man, ACMI 
Melbourne and Brisbane 2002 and Art Gallery of 
South Australia 2003; Toying with Paradise at 
Experimenta, Melbourne and ACCA in 2001. Accord, 
screened live with the State Orchestra of 
Victoria at the Melbourne Concert Hall 2001.

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