Sean Cordeiro & Claire Healy "Drunken Clarity", Shay Mazloom "Blank Surface"
You may well think you have missed the celebration; piles of empty bottles litter the floor of a gallery seemingly empty of ‘art’. But Sean Cordeiro & Claire Healy have once again taken the destruction of a utilitarian object and made it art, indeed aesthetically extraordinary.
In her performance and video work Blank Surface, Iranian artist Shay Mazloom uses her body as a screen upon which descriptors are projected like some kind of scrolling viral tattoo, or laser-like scanning device searching the body for a vulnerable crevice or opening.
The exhibitions are part of Art Month Sydney, and as part of the Art Month program Barry will be giving a talk on collecting video art at 11 am on Saturday 5 March at gbk. No need to RSVP, all welcome. For more information check out the Art Month website http://www.artmonthsydney.com/
In other news…
International flights….
Jonathan Jones features in Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years at Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Canada, until 8 May.
Jess MacNeil features in Drawn from Life: Green Cardamom at Abbot Hall Art Gallery, in the Lake District, UK until 26 March.
Domestic flights…
Sean Cordeiro & Claire Healy’s work The Great War is part of YOUR MOVE: Australian artists play chess at The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane from 26 February until 24 April.
Jonathan Jones has a number of works in Erased: contemporary Australian drawing at the National Art School, Sydney until 26 April.
Grant Stevens features in Let the Healing Begin at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane from 5 March to 20 April.