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Details
- Date
- 2010
- Media category
- Time-based art
- Materials used
- dual channel digital video, colour, sound
- Dimensions
- duration: 00:05:15 min, aspect ratio 16:9, display dimensions variable
- Signature & date
Signed and dated inside cover of edition box, silver fibre-tipped pen "Eugenia Raskopoulos 2010".
- Credit
- Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Eugenia Raskopoulos 2019
- Location
- South Building, lower level 1, 20th-century galleries
- Accession number
- 19.2019.a-b
- Copyright
- © Eugenia Raskopoulos
- Artist information
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Eugenia Raskopoulos
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About
Drawing on her experience of growing up in the Greek diaspora, Eugenia Raskopoulos' work 're-ma(r)king' reflects on how cultural knowledge is transferred across contexts and between generations through objects, rituals and stories. 're-ma(r)king' is focused on two items that belonged to the artist's grandmother, which she animates through performance. On one screen, we see Raskopoulos unraveling a woven doily then winding this into a ball of thread, restoring the crafted object to its material origins. In the other, we see her dripping olive oil onto a concrete floor, then spreading it with a rolling pin as though preparing pastry. These actions invoke the power of mnemonic triggers to bring the past into the present. A portrait of the artist can be glimpsed in the reflective surface of the oil, partial and provisional, like memory itself.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
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 5 publications
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Victoria Lynn, Eugenia Raskopoulos: vestiges of the tongue, 'Vestīgium: body and trace', pg. 98-103, Sydney, 2019, 101, 110, 150-151 (colour illus., videol stills), 222.
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Anne Marsh, What is performance art: Australian perspectives, 'Performance art - live and on screen', pg. 53-70, Australia, 2018, 62 (colour illus., video still). fig.no. 62
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Anne Marsh, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 'Photo/video language and the feminine in selected works by Eugenia Raskopolous', pg. 182-193, 2015, 192 (colour illus., video still). fig.no. 4
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Anne Marsh, Performance ritual document, 'Performance, ritual, shamanism', pg. 127-164, Melbourne, 2014, 150 (colour illus., video still).
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José Da Silva., Octopus 10: How we know that the dead return, 'How do we know that the dead return', Fitzroy, 2010, n.pag. (colour illus., video still).
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