Catalogue: Craigie Horsfield: Relation
A major exhibition catalogue of Craigie Horsfield's works.
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Artist Lecture - Craigie Horsfield
Running Time: 1:03:56
Craigie Horsfield discusses his work with Professor Ien Ang, founding Director of the Centre for Cultural Research. Horsfield often prints his photographs long after they were taken. Through this process he juxtaposes memory and reality. Professor Ang's innovative work focuses on media and cultural consumption and issues of representation in contemporary cultural institutions.
Image:Craigie Horsfield Pau Tod? i Marga Moll, carrer de Muntaner, Barcelona, mar? 1996 gelatin silver photograph, single edition Collection of the artist ? the artist and Adagp, Paris 2005.
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Running Time: 1:03:56
Craigie Horsfield discusses his work with Professor Ien Ang, founding Director of the Centre for Cultural Research. Horsfield often prints his photographs long after they were taken. Through this process he juxtaposes memory and reality. Professor Ang's innovative work focuses on media and cultural consumption and issues of representation in contemporary cultural institutions.
Image:Craigie Horsfield Pau Tod? i Marga Moll, carrer de Muntaner, Barcelona, mar? 1996 gelatin silver photograph, single edition Collection of the artist ? the artist and Adagp, Paris 2005.
Ovation Channel feature - Craigie Horsfield exhibition
Running Time: 3:09
Ovation Channel special feature on MCA exhibition 'Craigie Horsfield: Relation'. Includes extensive footage within the galleries of the MCA exhibition, presented from 16 March until 3 June 2007.
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Running Time: 3:09
Ovation Channel special feature on MCA exhibition 'Craigie Horsfield: Relation'. Includes extensive footage within the galleries of the MCA exhibition, presented from 16 March until 3 June 2007.
Craigie Horsfield: Relation
16 March - 3 June 2007
Born in England in 1949, Craigie Horsfield is an internationally renowned artist. The MCA is working with the prestigious Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris on this major exhibition of Horsfield’s work which covers all aspects of his practise from portraits of people, cities and the landscapes with which they interact; to film, photography, social projects and sound work.
Astoundingly beautiful and haunting, Horsfield presents us with a complex and integrated vision of humanity and art. He has been a radical proponent of ideas concerning art and community since the 1960s, exploring the central role of the audience in relation to a work of art, and how the individual relates to society. Duration and time often influence his work, challenging our inclination towards instantaneous responses, and investigating the theory of “slow time”. His work has anticipated much current thinking in art practice concerning the way in which art relates to the wider community.
Shortlisted for the Turner Prize 1996, Horsfield has said: “The work I make is intimate in scale but its ambition is, uncomfortable as I find it, towards an epic dimension, to describe the history of our century, and the centuries beyond, the seething extent of the human condition.”
Craigie Horsfield and Reinier Rietveld, above, in the MCA gallery space working on Sydney soundwork, Monday 12 March 2007.
Craigie Horsfield is working with Reinier Rietveld on a newly commissioned Sydney soundwork created in a temporary mixing studio within the MCA gallery space for a week prior to the opening of the exhibition. The work explores changing perception and history by incorporating sonic elements from previous installations; such as the haunting clang of pipes as the World Trade Centre buildings were cleared in 2001, along with sounds gathered in and around the gallery.
Conversation is designed to shift our understanding of what takes place in an art museum by bringing the ideas of a city—Sydney—into an MCA gallery space in the form of meetings, discussions and debates. All those participating in these 'conversations', and visitors who observe them, become part of the exhibition. This work emphasises one of Horsfield’s key concerns: the role of the audience in relation to a work of art. According to the artist, ‘All art is, in some sense, conversation.’
Both these works are being exclusively produced for the MCA's presentation of Craigie Horsfield: Relation
Craigie Horsfield: Relation has been organised by the Jeu de paume, Paris and co-produced with the Centro de Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão/ Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
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