'VIDEO GROUND' TOURING PROGRAM

22nd February 2008

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MAAP presents Video Ground: Recent moving image work from Australia and Aotearoa / New Zealand.

Curated by Rachel O'Reilly.

Practicing on uncertain ground and negotiating diffracted and bi-cultural regimes of representation, media artists from Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand work outside of stable cinematic genres to rethink historical and narrative accounts of place. Stella Brennan reflects on the role of wartime visualization technologies in abstracting South Pacific oceanic space. Government, corporate and migrant takes on suburban belonging are played out ironically through documentary tropes in Peter Alwast’s At the Rotunda. Merilyn Fairskye uses non-synchronous audio and stylized visuals to conjure under-documented operations at the joint US military facilities known as Pine Gap, in Central Australia. Australian indigenous artist Vernon Ah Kee, video artist John Gillies, and Maori new media artist Rachel Rakena engage performance in different ways to explore the legacies of cartography, colonial allegory, and the contemporary Pacific Island diaspora.

Video Ground screens first at the Bangkok Experimental Film Festival March 25-30, and the Chicago Film Studies Center, April 11. Later touring venues will be announced.

BEST WISHES FROM MAAP

21st December 2007

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From the MAAP Board and staff we wish to send a very special thank you to the artists and collaborators we have worked with this year and look forward to a very active 2008!

See you next year!

MAAP MEDIA BANK

30th September 2007

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Good Morning! MAAP is calling for applications from artists (in Queensland) that need equipment for production or display. Successful applications will be granted use of the equipment free of charge. Artists are required to arrange transport and adequate security while the equipment is in their care. A range of equipment is available that includes numerous TV monitors, DVD players, speakers, amplifiers, digital video camera, headphones, data projectors and various computer and electrical cabling. There is no closing date, but chances of booking equipment improove with longer lead times. To start your enquiry email info@maap.org.au