As a responce to the current Uber memoria II series (2006-07), new video works will be filmed in various sites including Melbourne, Hobart and London throughout 2007 - as per a large proportion of footage filmed in Berlin and Stuttgart in 2006 not used both the
Uber I &
II series - to make up a total of six groupings with a total of 1000 video paintings. Production will start in May 2007 with a release date of December 2007. Exhibition of these works will be anounced later in the year.
Locations used are sites of significance in terms of memory and place. For example, Soho Gardens contains WW2 yet to be restored Blitz air raid shelters beneath it's parkland; the RMIT University is home to sites of the original (and notorious) Old Melbourne Gaol and 1860s public hanging grounds cnr Swanston and LaTrobe Street; and the site of the Berlin Wall near Checkpoint Charlie, aka the 'topography of terror' presinct, contains the orginal sites of the State Police, the Reich Security main office, the SS, and the Reichsfuhrer. These builidngs were home to the
Wannsee Conference and planning of the 'Germinisation' and 'Extermination' policies implimented by the Nazi government between 1942-1945.
Places used in
Gothic memoria are:
Melbourne: Sherbrook Forrest, Old Melbourne Gaol site at RMIT University, Wreck of the Cerberus, Glenrowan
Victoria: Howqua Valley,
Hobart: Battery Point fortification tunnels, Lower Sandy Bay foreshore
Stuttgart: Castle Solitude
Berlin: Berlin Wall at the Topography of Terror site
London: Soho Square Gardens
Schwaebisch Hall: Schaebisch Hall prison
New Zealand: Kepler Track
Production images will be released throughout the year
