Author: lcurham
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Propositions and Game Plans, a group show in the Melbourne Arts Festival 2008
Curham was part of an exhibition curated by David Young as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival. Works included watercolours and digital prints from the film frames.
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Waiting To Turn Into Puzzles
This was an extraordinary performance featuring a film, a score made from the film, an amazing composition and incredible musicians. Composer David Young and I both love Georges Perec and this work drew inspiration from Life a User’s Manual and it used a lot of the footage I created during my residency at BankArt 1929…
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Conimbla
A super8 and 16mm film shot in western New South Wales in Conimbla National Park used for the performance Val Camonica Pieces 2007 and as a stand alone film with audio from that work for a film in 2009.
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Old Things Are New Again, an exhibition at BankART 1929, Yokohama
An exhibition of film and installation in Yokohama in 2007
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Long Film for Ambient Light, a re-enactment as resident artists at Performance Space, Sydney 2007
Curham, L & Ihlein, M. (2007). Re-enactment of ‘Long Film for Ambient Light’ [installation]. Sydney: Performance Space As part of residency at Performance Space. In 2007 Teaching and Learning Cinema (Lucas Ihlein and me) restaged/re-enacted/ re-did Anthony McCall’s piece from 1975 at Performance Space at Carriageworks – TLC website has all the details here
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Moving Still Life, a projection project shown in Melbourne and Sydney 1998-2004
This work occupied me from about 1998 to the mid 2000s. I sewed 2 litre milk bottles together, mostly by hand. The idea was to get away from the square on the wall, to embed the image in the projection surface and to take the projection surface out of the black space of the cinema.…
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Herbaceous, an exhibition at the Nga Taonga Sound and Vision, Auckland 2003
This was one of my first solo exhibitions (there were some earlier ones in Melbourne in the late 1990s – Blackwood Gallery for example and in the foyer at the Sun in Yarravile for the last super 8 film festival). But this one was significant for me. My friend Michael Brook was the curator. The…
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Bio and CV
BIO Louise explores the creative application of old media. Her art training is in film and time-based art. She makes moving image art using hand made and hand processed 16mm and super 8 film – video art and films used live in performance. She also uses pinhole photography and cyanotypes. Making images using photography links…
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Filmography
Dance films: Knee Deep in Thin Air 1992; Fugue in Pursuit of Flight 1994; Slipped 1997. Other films: The Princess & The Pea 2000; Tenho Saudades (with Peter Humble) 2004; Conimbla 2009 Vimeo feed – lots of experimental works there.
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