WHY PROJECTION ART ?
* The TGA’s aims activate our community through inclusive art projects.
* Our projects incorporate community, celebration and art.
* Through this festival we celebrate Projection Art with our community
and the contributions artists make to help us understand each others
perspectives.
Projected art is an art form we can all enjoy . It's a way to express
and capture each individual's viewpoint and perspective on life within
a visual. We believe people learn and absorb different ways of thinking
in many ways, writing, talking, thinking, painting, moving,
dancing,through text, through image. Text can divide, visuals are
universal. We all bring our own history to the understanding of a
visual and it sometimes causes confusion. Confusion is useful to create
different thoughts and change perspectives. As you are not set in your
thinking or understanding of the artists intent it can bring a 'gem' of
understanding about another persons or a group's prerspective on an
issue or a new idea.
The TGA - 'GERTRUDE ST PROJECTION FESTIVAL' allows us to celebrate
projection art. Explore the talent we have locally. Provide a platform
to celebrate the pioneers in this specality, encourage emerging
artists, push the boundries while still caring for each other and
having fun!.
We are committed to keeping this festival assessable. Help our
community understand and apreciate projection art and artists role in
assisting community and cultural change.
Artists can inspire the community and people who don't usually create art.
We encourage people to enter who do not usually see themselves as artists.
Submissions can be photographs, animations, non-narrative video art or documentary.
What we do know; is each year of this festival we reveal the diversity in us all.
Monique McNamara - project concept and Festival co-producer.
Projection art allows us to re see the ordinary. Light and shadow re
configure the everyday and allows us to gather around a collective
light it's a sort of modern day fireplace where the images we make
and see flicker and ignite our imaginations. The festival brings us
together; to celebrate community and art. Enjoy.
Kym Ortenburg - Co Founder and Festival co - producer
WE ASKED OUR ARTISTS ABOUT THEIR PERSPECTIVE.
Q:How does projection art enhance your experience of Urban Perspectives?
2009 FEATURE ARTIST YANDELL WALTON.
EMERGING ARTIST.
I use the medium of projection installation to create work that use
both the actual and virtual responding to specific sites.
Public projection art unlike other mediums is extremely accessible to
its viewers. Due to the influx in everyday commercial images it allows
for an experience that is familiar. It extends this familiarity into
an experiential encounter with new ideas created by the artworks. This
medium enables actual spaces and architecture to become a viewing
station where artists can connect with the public.
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2008 FEATURE ARTIST ANGELA BARNET.
EMERGING ARTIST. 2008 EXPERIMENTA 'PLAYGROUND' GRANT RECIPICANT ARTIST
Angela Barnett, "
Projection is unlike any other form of visual art. Throwing moving
light pixels onto an ordinary surface transforms it into something
extrodinary; beautiful, shocking, unique. It is not only an artform
within itself but encompasses the surrounding environment and objects
within it to become a part of the art."
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FESTIVAL PATRON. IAN De GRUCHY:
PRACTITIONER FOR 20 YEARS.
Ian de Gruchy," By integrating research, technology and production
and combining the best of analogue technologies (photography,
projectors) with the power of digital technologies (imaging, keystone
correction, slide production) it is possible to produce complex
engaging works with projection.
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