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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Yokohama
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Kanagawa
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Japan
- Date
- 2005
- Media categories
- Time-based art , Installation
- Materials used
- single channel digital video, colour, sound
- Edition
- 2/4
- Dimensions
- duration: 00:19:20 min, aspect ratio: 16:9
- Signature & date
Signed l.c. certificate of authenticity, black fibre-tipped pen "Shaun Gladwell". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Amanda Love 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 214.2011.1
- Copyright
- © Shaun Gladwell
- Artist information
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Shaun Gladwell
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About
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.
In 'Yokohama Untitled' four Japanese break dancers are filmed in urban public spaces – performing in turn in a metro carriage, a shopping arcade, a metro platform and a department store. As Blair French has written, "Dressed in uber-chic streetwear they lope along in languid rhythms, trailed by the camera, every so often breaking into a set of spellbinding moves that lay claim to space, asserting presence and identity within otherwise everyday, almost homogenous environments" [Blair French (ed.), 'Shaun Gladwell: videowork', Artspace, Sydney 2007, pg. 9]. It can be added that the dancers do this with extreme grace and physical prowess.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Loveart: the Love collection, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre & Liverpool Regional Museum, Casula, 03 Dec 2010–20 Feb 2011
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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David Broker, Streetworks: inside outside Yokohama, Streetworks- inside outside Yokohama', pg. 9-17, Parkville, 2005, 15, 26-27 (colour illus., video still), 35.
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Blair French, Shaun Gladwell: videowork, ‘Return to earth’, pg. 8-31, 2007, 9, 17, 23, 26, 36, 42, 89 (colour illus.), 109.
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