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Details
- Date
- 2008
- Media categories
- Sculpture , Time-based art
- Materials used
- found object sculpture producing live video and audio
- Dimensions
- 135.0 x 180.0 x 150.0 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Christopher Hodges and Helen Eager 2016. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 289.2016
- Copyright
- © Ian Burns
- Artist information
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Ian Burns
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About
Ian Burns' sculptural-video work 'Across the Nile' addresses production and consumption and screen culture in our postmodern world. Burns' 'Across the Nile' is a kinetic assemblage of everyday items and technology that have been sourced from building supplies and homeware shops. Burns' irreverent re-contextualisation considers aesthetic and cultural values upheld by both artist and viewer in an amusing and playful manner. Amongst the heap, a computer monitor displays an animated video of pyramids in the desert which has been autogenously produced by the work 'filming itself' with a camera. Jonathan T.D. Neil has commented on the exploration of simulation and representation in Burns' practice which blurs distinctions between concepts and media: 'mimesis arises as an emergent property of Burns' art, an ontological reality that is separate and distinct from any part of the apparatus itself'. [1]
1. Jonathan T.D. Neil. 'Future greats', Art Review, March 2008, p 92
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Ian Burns: It's all good, Dell Gallery, South Bank, 04 Jul 2008–20 Jul 2008
Melbourne Art Fair 2008, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Melbourne, 30 Jul 2008–03 Aug 2008
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Peter Hill and Stephen Bush, Art World (issue 5), 'The 2008 Melbourne Art Fair', pg. 182, Sydney, Oct 2008-Nov 2008, 182 (colour illus.).
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Ross Woodrow., Ian Burns: It's all good, 'Aesthetics from the Greek temple to Freddy's Fishing World', Brisbane, 2008, not paginated.
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