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Louise Terra & Rachel Feery, Nature Calling, 2019, 360० Virtual Reality Music Clip. Duration: 5 minutes, 2 seconds. Written, performed & produced by Louise Terra; Director: Rachel Feery; Assistant Director: Simon Winkler; Producers: Rachel Feery and Louise Terra; Costume: Rachel Jessie-Rae O’Connor; Compositing Assistance and Graphics: Iolanthe Iezzi; Editor: Rachel Feery; Ambisonic Mix: Mark Mitchell; VFX Composition: Mark Dickson; Performers: Louise Terra and Janie Gibson; VR Production Advisor: Thomas Kinsman; Hair and Makeup: Andi Coventon; Chorographic Eye: Holly Durant.

HTTP.PARADISE
  • Hester Lyon


29 May 2020
Incinerator Gallery 24 Apr - 7 Jun 2020

The internet is both pluralistic and policed. From this premise, HTTP.PARADISE speculates on the terms of digital paradise through radical perspectives in video art, the moving image, music videos and video gaming. Curated by Jake Treacy and presented online via Incinerator Gallery, the exhibition is a direct response to cancelled artistic opportunities and physical distancing, positing the digital as a space to explore contemporary politics, autonomy, spirituality and identity. The exhibition’s composite title, HTTP.PARADISE, prefaces the search for paradise online as one marred by antithetical and incompatible personal and societal states of being. As such, the exhibition presents a series of video works that engage digital technologies to confront the very question of how the virtual, as a pervasive lens through which we navigate the world, defines identities and justifies disempowerment.

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