Title
Idea demonstrations
1972
Artists
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Details
- Date
- 1972
- Media categories
- Time-based art , Performance , Film
- Materials used
- 16mm film transferred to digital tape (betacam) shown as single channel digital video, colour, black and white, sound
- Dimensions
- duration: 00:40:00 min, aspect ratio 4:3
- Credit
- Purchased 1974
- Location
- South Building, lower level 1, 20th-century galleries
- Accession number
- 13.1974
- Copyright
- © Mike Parr © Peter Kennedy/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Mike Parr
Works in the collection
- Artist information
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Peter Kennedy
Works in the collection
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About
Mike Parr and Peter Kennedy were among the founding members of 'Inhibodress', a pioneering artist-run initiative that operated in Sydney in the early 1970s. 'Inhibodress' was an important centre for the radical, conceptual practices that were emerging at that time and which focussed on the expression of ideas rather than the production of aesthetic objects. Artists were beginning to experiment with a broad range of mediums and approaches, from installation and performance to photography, film, video, sound and text.
Parr and Kennedy’s collaborative performances from this period were investigations into the meaning of certain actions in social and psychological terms. Documented on film under the collective title 'Idea demonstrations', often these early works explicitly addressed the role of the camera in mediating between the performer and audience.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 5 exhibitions
Recent Australian Art (1973), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 Oct 1973–18 Nov 1973
Performance, Document, Film, Video, National Gallery of Victoria [Swanston Street], Melbourne, 28 Aug 1975–28 Sep 1975
Inhibodress 1970-1972, Institute of Modern Art, Fortitude Valley, 12 Sep 1989–post 12 Sep 1989
Off the Wall / In the Air: A seventies' selection, Monash University Gallery, Clayton, 28 Jun 1991–10 Aug 1991
20th-Century galleries, lower level 1 (rehang), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2022–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Anne Marsh, Off the Wall / In the Air: A seventies selection, 'Desire and Discontent, performance art in the 1970s', p20-30, Unknown, 1991, 20, 22 (illus.). cat. no. 118
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Daniel Thomas AM (Curator) and Frances McCarthy (Assistant Curator), Recent Australian Art, Sydney, 1973, 54 (illus.), 54-55. cat.no. 29
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Michael Wardell, Contemporary: Art Gallery of New South Wales Contemporary Collection, 'Ideas and actions', pg.60-107, Sydney, 2006, 84.
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