Events

Trace Elements: Spirit and Memory in Japanese and Australian Photomedia

19 July 2008 - 13 October 2008

Trace Elements is a collaborative project showing the work of 10 Australian and Japanese photomedia artists brought together by curators from Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery and Performance Space-CarriageWorks, Sydney. Opening at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery on 19 July 2008, there will be an artists' floor talk and a forum with all artists on the opening weekend.

Through both traditional and innovatory uses of photomedia, Australian artists Philip Brophy, Jane Burton, Alex Davies, Genevieve Grieves and Sophie Kahn, and Japanese practitioners Teiji Furuhashi, Seiichi Furuya, Chie Matsui, Lieko Shiga and Kazuna Taguchi, show their perspectives on time, memory, metaphysical phantasmagoria and lived experience.

Demonstrating the technical progression in still and moving photomedia in constructing alternative environments, revising past images and fabricating new memories and experiences, in Trace Elements curators Shihoko Iida and Bec Dean posit the notion of the 'trace' to consider the photomedia influence within and beyond the two cultures on notions of self, consciousness and personal and collective histories.

Trace Elements: Spirit and Memory in Japanese and Australian Photomedia

Date	19 July 2008 - 13 October 2008 Closed on Mondays (Tuesday if Monday is a national holiday) and 3 August
	11:00 - 19:00 Friday and Saturdays until 20:00 Entry until 30 minutes prior
Venue	Tokyo Operacity Art Gallery Tokyo Operacity Tower 3F 3-20-2 Nishi Shinjuku Shinjuku Tokyo * 3 min walk from east exit of Hatsudai Station Phone: 03-5353-0756 Website: http://www.operacity.jp/ag
Admission	Adults 1000yen University and High School Students 800yen Junior High and Elementary School Students 600yen Free on Saturdays, Sundays and national holidays * 9 September, 9 year anniversary, admission is 100yen for all visitors.

Other Information
Credit lines for the above images (Left) FURUHASHI Teiji LOVERS Video installation 1994 © ARTLAB, Canon Inc. cooperation: sendai mediatheque, dumb type (Centre) Alex Davies Dislocation (installation view at Experimenta) Interactive 4 channel video installation 2005 courtesy: Experimenta Media Arts (Right) Genevieve Grieves Children, from production still from "Picturing Old People" 5 channel video installation 2005 courtesy: the artist Acknowledgement Trace Elements is part of the Australia-Japan Strategic Ties for the Arts Program, an initiative of Asialink supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Japan Foundation and the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body. Acknowledgement Performance Space is supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian State and Territory governments, the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body and the New South Wales Government through Arts NSW.

Other Information

Credit lines for the above images

(Left)
FURUHASHI Teiji
LOVERS
Video installation
1994
© ARTLAB, Canon Inc.
cooperation: sendai mediatheque, dumb type

(Centre)
Alex Davies
Dislocation (installation view at Experimenta)
Interactive 4 channel video installation
2005
courtesy: Experimenta Media Arts

(Right)
Genevieve Grieves
Children, from production still from "Picturing Old People"
5 channel video installation
2005
courtesy: the artist

Acknowledgement

Trace Elements is part of the Australia-Japan Strategic Ties for the Arts Program, an initiative of Asialink supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Japan Foundation and the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

Acknowledgement

Performance Space is supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian State and Territory governments, the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body and the New South Wales Government through Arts NSW.