Mike Parr
(Australia 1945 – )
House of cards
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
'House of cards' was an intensely psychological performance carried out by Mike Parr in private at Artspace, Sydney on 2 May 2004. With his print work '(ALPHABET/HAEMORRHAGE) Black Box of 100 Self Portrait Etchings', Parr sat on the gallery floor and clumsily constructed a house of cards, a game he recalls playing with his siblings as a child. Parr’s regressive enactment 'transcends the self-portrait image' by seemingly channelling the repressed Id, buried deep within his unconscious.
'House of card's is a black and white video, digitised from Mark Bliss's 16mm film recording of the performance. An edition of '(ALPHABET/HAEMORRHAGE)' is held within the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
- Year
- 2004
- Media
- Time-based art
- Medium
- 16mm film shown as single channel digital video, black and white, sound
- Dimensions
- duration: 00:29:40 min continuous, aspect ratio: 16:9
- Signature & date
Signed and dated certificate of authenticity, black fibre-tipped pen "Mike Parr 21.10.2019".
- Credit
- Gift of the artist 2019. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program
- Accession number
- 216.2019
- Copyright
- © Mike Parr
