The Campaign

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The Campaign will include:

Theo Ellison – Radical Outsider
Theo Ellison presents a heavily edited image of Alberto Korda’s famous photograph of Che Guevara. In this work the entire middle section is spliced out to leave only the outskirts of the image, rendering it simultaneously familiar yet unrecognisable.

Jazbo von Magius Gross – Join The Nielsen Movement
Moving Image student Jazbo presents a photograph that was taken when became part of performance art group The Nielsen Sisters and filmed their music video. The Nielsen Sisters invite followers on social media to submit their own versions of the song Love and Peaces and take part in the song contest on the Neilsen Sisters website – www.nielsen.re/contest.

Louise Long – The Understory
Louise Long explores changes in the natural landscape in her image of an extinct sugar plantation on the Caribbean island of St Lucia. The name of the work is taken from an ecological term for the layer of undergrowth on the rainforest floor, home to the most abundant plant and animal life, but where sunlight is scarcest.

Melissa Magnuson – U Can’t Miss It
U Can’t Miss It is from a body of work that explores Native American representation, territorial politics and the socio-economic relationship between the US government and the Apache community. Magnuson combines landscape image and Facebook messaging to create a collaborative work with the Native Americans who inhabit the space and take part in traditional ceremonies while at the same time existing in the here and now of the ‘Rez’ with their iPhones.

Tim Sullivan – Malerweg
The Malerweg is a designated heritage walk in Saxony, Germany that celebrates Romantic painters, such as Caspar David Friedrich, who used the landscape as inspiration. Revisiting these sites with the Romantic tradition in mind, Tim Sullivan presents a series of photographs with this in mind.

Feifei Yu – I Want to But I Shouldn’t
Feifei Yu’s presents a series of photos that are inspired by the psychological study of individuals’ cultural identities. Influenced by anthropology, this series considers how there is a philosophical side to the indulgence and repression of ourselves and our desires.

Kyle Zeto – Daft Pagan
Kyle Zeto examines folklore and mysticism through the central figure of the shaman. The image of the masked figure is a theme throughout his work – a fictional and theatrical figure that is nonetheless human.

Steven Aishman – The Aishmans
Steven Aishman has created a slideshow of letters – previously posted on Instagram – written each day to his wife. The work provides an intimate glimpse into domestic life and how declarations of love can come in many different forms.

Shigetoshi Furutani – The Trifle of the Immaturity
Shigetoshi Furutani, a print-making student, presents a re-make of the painting The Triumph of the Immaculate by Paolo de Matteis to reflect his own introspections and project them in a digital format.

Jinjoon Lee – Depth of Time
Jinjoon Lee presents a single channel video from his series Depth of Time, a video collage shot in different locations where historic catastrophic events took place. This multi-layered work builds on his research into how traumatic collective memory could be remembered by visual art.

Joshua Leon – Finger, Arouses, Ear
In Finger, Arouses, Ear we see a nymph dancing underwater. The work is inspired by an explicit poem, arousing questions of voyeurism, eroticism and the failure of desire. Joshua Leon plays with image and poetry to explore conditions of psyche, self, sexuality and desire.

Ben McDonnell – At the Still Point
The infinitely repeating, fragmenting image at the heart of At the Still Point represents the memory of a dialogue within a relationship. By using a framework of perpetual self-reflections of the same image, the artist represents a conversation in stasis, one that cannot develop any further.