Oct 19, 2005
UCFV Canada Scholar Hugh Brody presents Inside Australia
Join UCFV’s Canada Scholar in Aboriginal Studies, anthropologist Hugh Brody, as he presents his film Inside Australia, on Wed, Oct 26, at 7 pm in Room A225 on the UCFV Abbotsford campus.
Admission is free and all are welcome, but seating is limited. Plan to arrive early.
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Inside Australia is about the work that British sculptor Antony Gormley installed on the surface of a vast, million-year-old salt lake in one of the remotest parts of Australia.
He was there to install a remarkable art work that would stretch over ten square km and consist of more than 50 sculptures. Inside Australia tells the whole story of the work’s creation, from Gormley’s receiving the permission of local Aboriginal elders and his persuading the people of Menzies to take part, to the hazardous casting and back-breaking installation of the sculptures.
Photographs, maps, and drawings show the entire process in detail, while commentaries from members of the project team explain its different stages. Anthropologist Hugh Brody recounts the various human histories that lie like so many layers on the land around the lake, while curator Anthony Bond places the work in the wider context of Gormley’s sculptural oeuvre.
It was the final act in an exhausting six-month process that had seen him take naked body scans of the residents of a nearby town and produce ‘Insiders’ -- alien-like sculptures of the inside of each person -- which he was about to place across the flat salt-encrusted expanse of Lake Ballard, Western Australia.
Now drawing thousands of visitors from all over the world to its remote site, the work is stunning in its effect. Huge in scale, it remains intensely intimate; standing still and silent, the ‘Insiders’ appear and disappear across the exposed and desolate landscape.
Antony Gormley has, since the early 1980s, used his own body to make sculptures that explore the human experience of being in the world. He is perhaps best known for his monumental sculpture The Angel of the North, in Gateshead, England. He won the Turner Prize in 1994 and his work has been exhibited extensively around the world.
Wed, Oct 26, at 7 pm in Room A225
on the UCFV Abbotsford campus.
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