Shaun Gladwell
(Australia 1972– )
- Title
- Hikaru: Fast Food Sequence
- Other titles:
- Hikaru Sequences
Hikaru Fast Food Sequence - Place of origin
-
Sydney →
New South Wales →
Australia
- Year
- 2001
- Media categories
- Time-based media, DVD
- Materials used
- DV/DVD, single channel video, 4:9 ratio, colour, silent, 10:55 min
- Edition
- 2/4
- Dimensions
-
dimensions variable
- Signature & date
- Signed Certificate of Authenticity lower c., black fibre-tipped pen "Shaun Gladwell".
- Credit
- Gift of Amanda Love 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
- Accession number
- 213.2011
- Copyright
- © Shaun Gladwell. Courtesy Anna Schwartz Gallery
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
This video embodies Gladwell's core practice: slowed recordings of urban subcultural practitioners occupying public space in unexpected ways. Young people balance their bodies with extreme skill to undertake physically complex interactions with the zones in which they are situated – metro stations, shopping malls, retail outlets.
'Hikaru: Fast Food Sequences' is an important early Gladwell from the same period as his famous 'Storm Sequence' (2000) and 'Tangara' (2003). In it a 'freestyler' bike rider tip-toes his bike into a fast food outlet and then out again, barely noticed by the consumers intent on ordering their burgers and fries. The work skilfully contrasts slickly marketed junk food with an alternate momentary intervention into the spaces designed for its sale and consumption.
- Bibliography (5)
-
Stephen Hepworth (Editor), Shaun Gladwell: perpetual 360° sessions, Heerlen, 2011, 25 (colour illus., video still).
Blair French (Author), Shaun Gladwell: videowork, 2007, 16, 26, 36, 62, 51, 108 (colour illus., video still).
Simon Rees (Author), Shaun Gladwell: various rolls, Brisbane, Mar 2005. not paginated
David Broker (Curator), Streetworks: inside outside Yokohama, Parkville, 2005, 15, 31 (colour illus., video still).
Simeon Kronenberg (Australia) (Author), Mix-ed: diverse practice and geography, 2004. not paginated
- Exhibition history (1)
-
Loveart: the Love collection, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre & Liverpool Regional Museum, 03 Dec 2010–20 Feb 2011.
