gallery
2010
White rabbit Rylstone Projects Rylstone
2009
Parallel play: developmental psychology for capitalists Breathing Space, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery Sydney > more
Wink A Spiers Embers, Eidos Foundation, ГОГОЛЬFEST2009 Kiev, Ukraine > more
As Above, so below : the New York Stock Exchange mixed media.
Astro Stats for the American Stock Exchange by Jack Gillen with an internet astrology travel program enabled charting of the NYSE’s travel experiences / exploitation in South America. Works were made for a residency and exhibition at Galleria Metropolitana, Santiago Chile 2007. The travel program was further used to chart the NYSE’s effect on Germany for Bereznitsky Gallery, Berlin 2008 and Australia for At the Vanishing Point Sydney 2009.
The NYSE was born on May 17, 1792, at 8:52 am in New York under the sun sign of Taurus.
Beyond Rapa Nui: Policy and plan for Sydney’s food production Reliquaries of empires dust, Bereznitsky Gallery Berlin, Germany > more 2008
The History of Disappearance, Franklin Furnace / MOMA New York Collection Performance activist video and other art works from 1970s to present. Presenter and curator. Sydney College for the Arts Gallery Sydney > more
Yuan Hegemony video. The Academy of Electronic Arts Carnival of e-Creativity & Change-agents Conclave India International Centre New Delhi, India and Looking for Democracy Mori Gallery Sydney 2007
2007
Dream Catcher’s Hunt mixed media. The Howard Years, At the Vanishing Point Gallery Sydney
Stanley Harrison Jr. of Alum Creek, West Virginia
A total quadriplegic born with cerebral palsy
on his Dream Catcher’s Hunt with his Uncle
Richard and hunting guide Cord Hayes of Dream
Mountain -W. Va. He harvested an 8 point 200 #
Whitetail Buck taken with his Remington 30.06
modified with SR-77 attachments that allows him
to sight in with his head and use a mouth piece
trigger mechanism.
Surveillance Series photographs. Snap to Grid Los Angeles Centre for Digital Art Los Angeles, America
Tied, Mayday 2006
Funerary performance with audio & video installation on Indigenous owned Tribal Warrior on Sydney Harbour. This work explores global economic questions through ideas on global warming involving personal experiences of cultural disconnection, memory loss & displacement, &, further, broader ethical concerns of deceit & powerlessness in times of accelerated change.
Documentation artworks exhibited: Liverpool Biennial & London Biennale, Arcadia Stables Gallery UK 2006, The End of Dollar Hegemony Loose Sydney 2006, Greenpeace Art 4 Action Changing Nature 2006 Darling Park Gallery Sydney 2006, Phoenix Spiritual Prize for Art Highly commended award, ANU School of Fine Art Gallery Canberra 2006 & Is It Getting Hotter in Here? At the Vanishing Point Sydney 2007
Partners: Sydney Fish Market, Tribal Warrior & Mount Druitt Pacific Island Action Network. Funded by the City of Sydney, in-kind support from Sydney Fish Market Sydney Harbour
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Sight / Sound / Site
Electrofringe masterclass audio/video public event with cicada.tv & artists from America & Australia Newcastle
The End of Dollar Hegemony Video, mixed media & performance by John Archer. Shrine to John Archer shown. Three wall works by John Archer, over 10 of his books predicting & discussing Australia’s now widely known water crisis, as well as a 1980’s video documentary of John building a structure in remote Australia for & with Indigenous people recovering from petrol sniffing Loose Sydney
The End of Dollar Hegemony is an essay by Senator Ron Paul presented to the U S House of Representatives in early 2006. The essay was emailed to over 1000 people worldwide and included in the show. It can be read in the reading section.
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Memoirs of my days on the New Testament - Mark
Photograph with text. Carte Blanche Mobile Gallery Check Inn Stu-Dio Ra Contemporary Art Rome, Italy
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2005
For Healing video work & artist talk Gosford Regional Art Gallery Gosford 8 minute video documenting Suzhou’s only counter-culture architectural restoration company undertaking work.
Surveillance Series from the Shanghai Natural History Museum
Fabric scroll photographs for the Artists Against Sedition Exhibition, Australia-China Council residency works Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre Sydney
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Australia-China Council residency, supported by NAVA & NSW Ministry for the Arts. > more
Interviewed artist for installation by Anne Kay & Jane Polkinghorne Situation, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney
2002
Singleton Women’s Script
Audio interview with researching anthropologist, photographic maps, artefacts Dubbo Regional Art Gallery Dubbo > more
2001
University of Newcastle Acquisitive Art Prize Glass bottles were collected from five houses over a five week period and melted in five metal forms Watt Space GalleryNewcastle and Tertiary Student Art Prize Maitland Regional Art Gallery Maitland
1999
BHP Ribbons of Steel
Co-curator & project development collaborator for over 50 projects (26 with steelworkers) to commemorate BHP Steelwork’s closure in Newcastle. Funded by BHP & the Australia Council Newcastle BHP in closing operations in Newcastle did so with little or no compensation to the local community and escaped the huge burden of cleaning up the site to green-field standards.
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