Real Emergency
- When 27 Aug - 19 Sep 2009
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Where
IVAN DOUGHERTY GALLERY
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Address
SELWYN ST, PADDINGTON NSW 2021
Curated by Jill Bennett and Anna Munster, 'REAL Emergency' presents new media art that examines aesthetic responses to modern-day disasters such as Hurricane Katrina, war and environmental catastrophes. The exhibition is the Australian premiere of documentary, film and video art by renowned international and national artists, including contemporary Chinese artist Yang Shaobin.
Bennett, the Director of the Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics (CCAP), said the exhibition aims to "pick apart" the media's capacity to reveal the truth and its ability to elicit certain emotional responses from the public. "Art may not report on the emergency as it happens but it offers a vital means of tracking the thoughts, forces and intensities that shape the unfolding of public events".
Artists
Yang Shaobin
Hito Steyerl
Liza Johnson
Sharon Daniel
Michele Barker
Anna Munster
Atanas Djonov
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Curated by Jill Bennett and Anna Munster
Supported by Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics and a result of an Australia Research Council (ARC) funded project that Bennett conducted on art, crisis and redevelopment in South East Asia with input from Munster's current ARC project on innovative forms of new media in art and society.



Title and Banner Images: Installation view, 'Real Emergency' Ivan Dougherty Gallery, 2009.