Author: lcurham
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Talk for the 2015 Australian Society of Archivists conference, ‘Tending the Archive’ by Ihlein & Curham
Talk presented by Louise Curham at the Australian Society of Archivists 40th annual conference, ‘Archives on the Edge’, Hobart, 20 August 2015 in Session 17, The Creative Perspective. The talk was based on the article ‘Reaching Through to the Object: Reenacting Malcolm Le Grice’s Horror Film 1’, (Ihlein & Curham, 2015), based on the Ihlein…
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‘Tending the archive’ talk for Australasian Association of Digital Humanities conference 2016
This was a talk for a 2016 conference, the screen production education and research conference in Australia.
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A film of one’s own, an exhibition in 2015 in Canberra and in 2005 in Sydney and New Zealand
A Film of One’s Own [Archive Fever] (2015), solo exhibition, PhotoAccess Canberra, Nov. Some words about this exhibition from the opening talk: The title of this exhibition is important. It references Virginia Woolf’s A room of one’s own and Jacques Derrida’s Archive fever: a Freudian impression. Archiving one’s self The work in this show all comes from my abstract…
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Stills life | moving fragments – exhibition with Jo Law, 2012
An exhibition of moving image art focused on attentiveness to every day objects, the exhibition showed at Belconnen Arts Centre and Tin Sheds Gallery. It featured work by Louise Curham and Jo Law. Jo used video and animation, Louise used super 8 film and hand processing.
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Pararaha
A 16mm film made on the west coast of Auckland, Tamaki Makaurau, New Zealand Aotearoa at Pararaha near Kare Kare
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Pararaha
Curham, L (film artist). (2010). Pararaha [motion picture film] Australia: commissioned for ‘Soak’ in the Melbourne International Arts Festival, Spence, A (composer), Australian Art Orchestra (performers). Premier MIAF, 2010, Melbourne Recital Centre, 9 October. 2013: Lines of Flight, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Johnson H (piano), 21 March. 2013: BBC Jazz on 3, Blunt, A (violin),…
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Smack Bang
Festival at Red Rattler, Marrickville c. 2010, performance with Alister Spence. This festival featured a fantastic talk by David Stratton.
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Two Screen film
This was one of the first hand made super 8 films I completed. It was used in performances from 2005 for about ten years. It changed and evolved as the film was destroyed. It was part of several NowNow events and some SoundOut events.
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(Wo)Man With Mirror, a project ongoing since 2009
This has been a really important project for Teaching and Learning Cinema, that’s me and my dear friend Lucas Ihlein. A big benefit has been our friendship with Guy Sherwin and Lynn Loo that has evolved from this work and time spent with Laura Hindmarsh in 2016 using the manual. The work is ongoing ……
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NowNow festivals 2006-7; 2009
Performances using super 8 projectors and super 8 film at this annual festival in Sydney involving improvising musicians.