HELEN VARLEY JAMIESON (participant)
A performance screened at the HTTP gallery, London. Performers in Paris, Madrid, Hailuoto & Wellington were given a colour, and had four objects corresponding to one each of the colours. Our task was to perform sound whenever our colour appeared in someone’s web cam. We could choose which colour to show when, but we should try to listen to the piece, not to have one colour dominating, & not to show our selves.
JAMES CHARLTON (participant), 2007
Using secondhand clues as firsthand research materials, invited worldwide contributors–who have Never Been to Tehran–took photographs (from their home base) of what they imagine Tehran to look like. Organised by Andrea Grover and Jon Rubin, with participants from 17 countries
HELEN VARLEY JAMIESON (participant), 2008
A Long Distance Dance performance originally created in 2008, and restaged for the Electrosmog Festival in 2010. Helen Varley Jamieson participated from Brisbane with Suzon Fuks, James Cunningham, Scotia Monkivitch and team.
Sat 23 Feb 2008 A screening/performance event presenting new works channelling the ‘father of video art’ curated by Daniel Agnihotri-Clark 8pm, SOFA Gallery Basement, Christchurch Arts Centre. $15/10, free entry with Tending Networks registration “I use technology in order to hate it more properly” Nam June Paik Screening Disasteradio Naomi Lamb Emil McAvoy & Damian […]
HELEN VARLEY JAMIESON, 2008
A solo performance using a Pollocks toy theatre & figures to tell a tragic love story in images. the soundtrack was the looped & layered voice of sally rodwell saying “the story is mine”, and the online audience created their own narrative in the text chat window
REVIEW by JAENINE PARKINSON, 2006
Kentaro Yamada has created an unusual set of portraits. They are not unusual in their subject matter – depictions of his friends – nor in their style – a cool clean aesthetic reminiscent of a modern photo shoot. They are unusual because they listen to anyone who will talk to them.