Title
Black Box: Theatre of Self Correction, Part I. Performances 1-6 [John's view], 3rd Biennale of Sydney, April-May 1979
1979
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1979
- Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- 10 gelatin silver photographs
- Dimensions
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a - Performance No. 1 [black box], 23.7 x 35.1 cm, image
a - Performance No. 1 [black box], 30.4 x 38 cm, sheet
b - Performance No. 1 [Mike and Geoff Parr], 23.6 x 35.1 cm, image
b - Performance No. 1 [Mike and Geoff Parr], 30.3 x 38.2 cm, sheet
c - Performance No. 1 [camera], 35.2 x 23.7 cm, image
c - Performance No. 1 [camera], 38 x 30.2 cm, sheet
d - Performance No. 1 [seated figure], 35.1 x 23.7 cm, image
d - Performance No. 1 [seated figure], 38 x 30.2 cm, sheet
e - Performance No. 2 [ice], 23.7 x 35.1 cm, image
e - Performance No. 2 [ice], 30.4 x 38 cm, sheet
f - Performance No. 2 [observer], 23.7 x 35.1 cm, image
f - Performance No. 2 [observer], 30.3 x 38.2 cm, sheet
g - Performance No. 3, 23.6 x 35.1 cm, image
g - Performance No. 3, 30.3 x 38.4 cm, sheet
h - Performance No. 4, 23.6 x 35.1 cm, image
h - Performance No. 4, 30.3 x 38.1 cm, sheet
i - Performance No. 5, 23.7 x 35.1 cm, image
i - Performance No. 5, 30.3 x 38 cm, sheet
j - Performance No. 6, 23.8 x 35.1 cm, image
j - Performance No. 6, 30.3 x 38.4 cm, sheet
- Signature & date
Not signed. Dated l.l. window mount [nos.a-j], ink ".../ .../ ...April/ May 1979".
- Credit
- Purchased 1980
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 246.1980.a-j
- Copyright
- © Mike Parr
- Artist information
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Mike Parr
Works in the collection
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About
Photographer: John Delacour
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Project 38- Re-constructed Vision, Contemporary work with photography (1981), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 Jul 1981–23 Aug 1981
Off the Wall / In the Air: A seventies' selection, Monash University Gallery, Clayton, 28 Jun 1991–10 Aug 1991
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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David Bromfield, Identities: A critical study of the work of Mike Parr 1970-1990, 3: 'Theatre of Self Correction', p119-220, Nedlands, 1991, 168 [illus.], 207-210 [colour illus.].
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Charles Green, Off the Wall / In the Air: A seventies selection, 'Living in the seventies', p5-20, Unknown, 1991, 11 [illus.], 17 [colour illus.]. cat. no. 122, It is not known which works from the Black Box series were actually shown in this exhibition.
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Gael Newton, Re-constructed Vision: Contemporary work with photography, Sydney, 1981, [illus.]. cat.no. 36
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