Mike Parr
(Australia 1945– )
Peter Kennedy
(Australia 1945– )
- Title
- Idea demonstrations
- Year
- 1972
- Media categories
- Time-based media, Film
- Materials used
- 16mm film, colour and black and white, optical sound, 40 min
- Dimensions
- Credit
- Purchased 1974
- Accession number
- 13.1974
- Location
- 20th & 21st c Australian art
- Further information
Mike Parr and Peter Kennedy were among the founding members of 'Inhibodress', a pioneering artist-run initiative that operated in Sydney in the early 1970s. 'Inhibodress' was an important centre for the radical, conceptual practices that were emerging at that time and which focussed on the expression of ideas rather than the production of aesthetic objects. Artists were beginning to experiment with a broad range of mediums and approaches, from installation and performance to photography, film, video, sound and text.
Parr and Kennedy’s collaborative performances from this period were investigations into the meaning of certain actions in social and psychological terms. Documented on film under the collective title 'Idea demonstrations', often these early works explicitly addressed the role of the camera in mediating between the performer and audience.
- Bibliography (3)
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Anthony Bond (England; Australia) (Commissioning Editor), Wayne Tunnicliffe (New Zealand; Australia) (Commissioning Editor), Contemporary: Art Gallery of New South Wales Contemporary Collection, 2006, 84.
Jenepher Duncan (Australia) (Editor), Off the Wall / In the Air: A seventies selection, Unknown, 1991, 20, 22 (illus.). cat. no. 118
Daniel Thomas (Curator), Frances McCarthy (Australia) (Assistant Curator), Recent Australian Art, Domain, 1973, 54 (illus.), 54-55. cat.no. 29
- Exhibition history (4)
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Recent Australian Art (1973), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 18 Oct 1973–18 Nov 1973.
Performance, Document, Film, Video, National Gallery of Victoria [Swanston Street], 28 Aug 1975–28 Sep 1975.
Inhibodress 1970-1972, Institute of Modern Art, 12 Sep 1989–post 12 Sep 1989.
Off the Wall / In the Air: A seventies' selection, Monash University Gallery, 28 Jun 1991–10 Aug 1991.
