Uber Memoria X: Full Series Pics

The complete pics (low res) from Uber Memoria X (2008), all are available as editioned photographs for $750.00 aud (128cm x 72cm) each. (ed of 20).

Uber Memoria X

Some low res pics of the final versions of Uber Memoria X to be released this Friday as a complete suite. These were funded by an Arts Creation Grant, Arts Victoria and RMIT University. The next installment of Gothic Nocturnus is coming early Jan 09. Andrew Rostas has scored all of the series and sounds fantastic. Compilation grade DVDs available for $29.00 AUD. Selected works are on show now at the National Centre for Contemporary Art Moscow until late December.

Shaun Wilson (2008), still from Uber Memoria X Act II

Shaun Wilson (2008), still from Uber Memoria X Act VI

Shaun Wilson (2008), still from Uber Memoria X Act IX

Shaun Wilson (2008), still from Uber Memoria X Act V

Preview of new work (production Sept-Oct 08)

Some preview pics of raw footage used in a very large forthcoming body of work affiliated with  Gothic Memoria (including pics from the films). I'm in post at the moment so will be quiet for another month or so until the primary edits of stage one are done. Expect to see Uber Nocturnus (Acts 5-10), Uber Memoria X (Acts 1-10), Gothic Nocturnus (Acts 1-10) and of course, the big one, the first 8 minutes from Gothic Memoria. The sensational Nancy Calo and Andrew Rostas will return to provide new classical scores for all works. And thanks to all my wonderful actors and crew thus far...

Gothic Memoria at Souvenirs from Earth (Germany)

Gothic Memoria 1-30
'Souvenirs from Earth'
Cologne Art Fair, Cologne (Oct 08)
Diva Art Fair, Paris (Oct 08)
Co Pop, Cologne (Aug 08)
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New Gothic Memoria works are now screening with the German TV station and outfit 'Souvenirs from Earth' including projects at the Cologne Art Fair and the Diva Art Fair Paris. Go to my page here.

New Shows for 2008

Here is the updated list of forthcoming gigs in 2008:

'Neo Goth: Back in Black', curated by Alison Kubler, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane: July-Sept 08
'Secondary Sources', curated by Phil Edwards, School of Art Gallery RMIT, Melbourne: Aug 08
'Other Cinema', Academy Gallery, Launceston: Aug 08
'CO Pop', Cologne, Germany: Aug 08
'The Mirror Stage', curated by Yiannis Colakides, Lanitis Foundation, Limassol, Cyprus: Sept 08
'The Centres Project', curated by Steven Ball & Irene Barberis, Lethaby Gallery, London: Nov 08
'Artfair 21', Cologne, Germany: Oct 08
'Diva Artfair', Paris, France: Oct 08
'OPTICA07 screening program', Cervantes Institute, Paris: Oct 08
'In Transition Russia', curated by Helene Black & Sheila Pinkel, National Centre of Contemporary Art Moscow & Yekaterinburg: Oct -Dec 08

Australian Gothic 2008

Tammy Honey, iJudith, single channel HD video, colour, sound, 16:9, 2008.

Australian Gothic
Curated by Shaun Wilson
12.06.08 - 03.08.08
Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA)
Screen Gallery
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The expanded version of Australian Gothic opened at PICA last week with over 500 people attending the opening. The new line up features additional artists including John A Douglas, Sam Keene, Krystal Shultheiss, David McDowell and Marco Kin Ming Wong. Future touring dates will be announced soon.

Neo Goth: Back in Black

Neo Goth: back in black
curated by Alison Kubler
25.07.08 - 21.09.08
UQ Art Museum, Brisbane

Forthcoming screening of new Uber Nocturnus Act 1-4 videos in the large goth exhibition at the new UQ Art Museum, Brisbane. Other artists include Tammy Honey, Brendan Lee, Bill Henson and Shaun Gladwell. The new work's sound was composed and cut by BERT APLHETT (Phil Edwards & Dave Collins) which sounds great. More details about the show coming soon...

New Screening in Greece

Shaun Wilson, Uber Nocturnus 8, HDV as single channel, DVD, colour, sound, 4 mins.

Athens Video Art Festival 2008
Athens, Greece
11-13.04.2008
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I'm screening a new Uber Nocturnus edition at the Athens Video Art Festival in April. See website for program details.

New Screening at [PAM] Sante Fe

Perpetual Art Machine
Mov-in Gallery
College of Sante Fe, USA
07.03.08-07.04.08
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I'm screening at Mov-in Gallery, Sante Fe by the New York video database touring installation Perpetual Art Machine [PAM] throughout March 2008. For more information go to the weblink above.

Image courtesy of PAM website.

New Compelation DVDs coming soon

New forthcoming DVD releases: 'Uber memoria Series 4-8' and 'Uber Nocturnus 1-20'. These will be launched at a Melbourne gallery soon, stay updated for more details...

New Video(s) online

Just added several new video releases from the Uber memoria (2007), Gothic memoria (2008) and Uber nocturnus (2008). Go to "Video Archive 2007/8". All versions are EXTREMELY low res, email me if you want a DVD compilation of the sexy HD versions. More examples will be added soon. Some other good references are on the Voyeur Video Collective and [PAM] profile links.

Uber Nocturnus 5-8

x4 new Uber Nocturnus works (5 mins each) are about to be released, heres a sneak pic...

New Screening in Berlin

Shaun Wilson, Uber Nocturnus iii (2007), HDV as single channel projection, DVD, colour, sound, 9 mins

After Cinema
Directors Lounge 2008
Berlin, Germany
07.02.08-17.02.08

Brie Trenerry
Tammy Honey
John A Douglas
Brendan Lee
Sam Keene
Shaun Wilson

New Screening: FLOAT

Shaun Wilson, Uber Nocturnus (2007), HDV as single channel projection, colour, sound, 50 mins.

Float: Watercraft in Art
Curated by Meryl Ryan & Diana Robson
Lake MacQuarie City Art Gallery
Booragul, NSW, Australia
14.12.07 - 03.02.08

Sally Smart
Allan Chawner
Tim Silver
Yvonne Koolmatrie
Jane Lender
Kendal Murray
John Turier
Shaun Wilson

New screenings of Uber Nocturnus, the first of several 50 min works in the curated exhibition Float which probes themes of the nautical in contemporary art. One of the most picturesque settings for a museum gallery in Australia, worth the visit...

New Gothic Memoria Filming

Production stills from the recent Gothic Memoria film shoots in Melbourne throughout November, 2007.

New Work in OPTICA 07

Still from Uber memoria 9 (short version) (2007), HDV as single channel DVD, colour, sound, 10 mins

Uber memoria 9 (short version)
Optica 07: Gijon International Festival of Video Art, Spain
16.11.07 - 18.11.07
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The first release of Uber Memoria 9 (short version) will be screening at Optica 07 in Gijon, Spain in mid November along with other Australian artists Emma Sterling & Dan Monceaux. More than 200 artists are screening throughout the city so it should be a great festival.

New Article on Video as Cinema

Have a read of Brendan Lee's article 'More Video Art Please' in the new edition of Artlink Vol 27.3 featuring a review of my overall work. The print version includes two colour plates of Uber memoria pics.

Gothic Memoria: new stills

New stills (raw footage) from recent Gothic memoria film shoots...

Gothic Memoria: the first shoot...

Here are some early pics from Gothic Memoria, the first film in the first trilogy...

Two New Feature Length Films

Two new companion feature length video art films of 'Gothic memoria' have just been announced: 'Epic memoria' and 'Locatus memoria' . These will sit as a trilogy of video art that re-addresses themes of Gothic Romanticism through the guise of video art.

Filming for all three works, and with their attached 'Uber memoria' variants (series 8 -20), will start on July 11th onwards.

More details will follow soon...

New work in 1st Athens Biennial 2007

Athenian Memory Palace
Artwave Radio
1st Athens Biennial 2007, Greece
Aired June 25-July 1, 2007
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My new sound art piece Athenian Memory Palace will be aired in late June on Artwave Radio, 1st Athens Biennial 2007, Greece. The work reconfigures family sound recordings made in and around Athens during the 1950s into a mnemonic spatial framework.

update on Gothic memoria feature film

The Gothic memoria script is now complete and work on the film's production has started. All 21 scenes are approximately 5 minutes each and a casting call will be made over the next two weeks. Funding for the project has been successful so the initial location shots will be filmed shortly and the miniatures unit/cgi/greenscreen shots will begin in August.

More info and soon to come production stills will be released later in the month so stay tuned...

Final Production for extended Uber memoria series

The last Uber memoria series (9-21) will be filmed in late June/early July as a conclusion to the seven trilogy installation. This mammoth undertaking of x130 works is due to be filmed in various locations throughout Cairns, Melbourne and Hobart. Release of the complete works on DVD is due on October 18th, 2007; exactly one year since the first Uber film shoot in Germany.

Funding permitting, a back-to-back shoot will also happen at the same time - thank you Peter Jackson - with the yet to be named feature-length film using a selection of locations appearing in the final Uber works. The advantages of such are using the same crew, sets and actors amassed for the seven cam production (Uber series is shot on HDV, the new film shot on DVCProHD). More updates will be available soon.

Update on L.A exhibition

U-Turn
curated by Larissa Hjorth, Kate Shaw & Roger Dickes
Glendale College Art Gallery, Los Angeles, USA: 01.09.07 - 15.10.07
LAXART, Los Angeles, USA: 01.09.07 - 15.10.07

New dates and venues have been released for the U-Turn exhibition in September this year. I will be screening works from the Uber series along with 17 other artists including Stephen Haley, Laresa Kosloff, Nadine Christensen, Kate Shaw, Larissa Hjorth, Natasha-Johns Messenger, Paul Quinn, Iam Haig and Martine Corompt.

New Screening in Russia

In -Transition
curated by Helene Black
National Centre of Contemporary Art, Yekaterinberg: 27.10.08 - 16.11.08
National Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow: 24.11.08 - 21.12.08

I will be screening a selection of the Uber memoria works in the forthcoming curated exhibition In Transition at two locations of the National Centre for Contemporary Art in Russia during late 2008. This also accompanies a 3-day international conference (exploring themes raised by the exhibition) to be staged at the Ural State Gorky University in Yekaterinberg.

Updates on the exhibition and conference will be made available soon.