Title
Black Box: Theatre of Self Correction, Part 1. Performances 1-6, 3rd Biennale of Sydney, April-May 1979
1979
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1979
- Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- 28 Cibachrome photographs
- Dimensions
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a - Performance No 1. [Birds], 35.9 x 29.3 cm, image
a - Performance No 1. [Birds], 40.6 x 30 cm, sheet
b - Performance No 1. [chair with blue background], 36 x 29.3 cm, image
b - Performance No 1. [chair with blue background], 38.3 x 30.6 cm, sheet
c - Performance No 1. [Mike Parr -profile], 35.5 x 29.5 cm, image
c - Performance No 1. [Mike Parr -profile], 41 x 30.5 cm, sheet
d - Performance No 1. [Geoff Parr -profile], 35 x 29.2 cm, image
d - Performance No 1. [Geoff Parr -profile], 39.1 x 30.3 cm, sheet
e - Performance No 2. [Mike Parr on table], 29.6 x 36 cm, image
e - Performance No 2. [Mike Parr on table], 30.6 x 38.6 cm, sheet
f - Performance No 2. [Julie Parr on table], 24.2 x 35 cm, image
f - Performance No 2. [Julie Parr on table], 30.6 x 41.9 cm, sheet
g - Performance No 2. [mirror on red background], 35.7 x 29 cm, image
g - Performance No 2. [mirror on red background], 37.2 x 30.4 cm, sheet
h - Performance No 2. [Julie Parr in ice], 35.2 x 28.7 cm, image
h - Performance No 2. [Julie Parr in ice], 40.5 x 29.9 cm, sheet
i - Performance No 3. [oil spill on plastic], 35.9 x 29.5 cm, image
i - Performance No 3. [oil spill on plastic], 37.9 x 30.4 cm, sheet
j - Performance No 3. [Mike Parr, reflection in mirror], 36 x 29.5 cm, image
j - Performance No 3. [Mike Parr, reflection in mirror], 40.4 x 30.7 cm, sheet
k - Performance No 3. [Mike Parr and chickens, reflection in morror], 38.8 x 29.5 cm, image
k - Performance No 3. [Mike Parr and chickens, reflection in morror], 40.8 x 30.4 cm, sheet
l - Performance No 3. [Julie Parr and chickens, reflection in morror], 29.5 x 35.8 cm, image
l - Performance No 3. [Julie Parr and chickens, reflection in morror], 30.4 x 41 cm, sheet
m - Performance No 3. [Mike Parr covered in plastic sheet with chickens], 36 x 29.8 cm, image
m - Performance No 3. [Mike Parr covered in plastic sheet with chickens], 41.2 x 30.5 cm, sheet
n - Performance No 4. [Mike Parr foreground, Julie Parr background], 36 x 29.2 cm, image
n - Performance No 4. [Mike Parr foreground, Julie Parr background], 40 x 30.6 cm, sheet
o - Performance No 4. [Mike Parr and oil spill], 35.8 x 29.8 cm, image
o - Performance No 4. [Mike Parr and oil spill], 38 x 30.8 cm, sheet
p - Performance No 4. [oil spill], 35.7 x 28.8 cm, image
p - Performance No 4. [oil spill], 37.6 x 30.1 cm, sheet
q - Performance No 4. [Geoff Parr], 36 x 29.5 cm, image
q - Performance No 4. [Geoff Parr], 41 x 30.4 cm, sheet
r - Performance No 5. [baby on right hand side], 36.2 x 29.5 cm, image
r - Performance No 5. [baby on right hand side], 42 x 30.4 cm, sheet
s - Performance No 5. [Geoff Parr], 29.5 x 36 cm, image
s - Performance No 5. [Geoff Parr], 30 x 40.4 cm, sheet
t - Performance No 5. [male figure on chair], 36 x 29.5 cm, image
t - Performance No 5. [male figure on chair], 40.3 x 30.5 cm, sheet
u - Performance No 5. [baby and chair, mirror in background], 35.8 x 29.3 cm, image
u - Performance No 5. [baby and chair, mirror in background], 37.6 x 30.2 cm, sheet
v - Performance No 5. [Mike Parr on chair], 36.2 x 29.4 cm, image
v - Performance No 5. [Mike Parr on chair], 42.9 x 30.4 cm, sheet
w - Performance No 6. [Geoff and Julie Parr hanging banner], 29.2 x 35.3 cm, image
w - Performance No 6. [Geoff and Julie Parr hanging banner], 30.3 x 40.8 cm, sheet
x - Performance No 6. [Geoff Parr hanging banner], 29.8 x 36 cm, image
x - Performance No 6. [Geoff Parr hanging banner], 30 x 40.6 cm, sheet
y - Performance No 6. [Julie Parr sitting on chair], 29.3 x 36 cm, image
y - Performance No 6. [Julie Parr sitting on chair], 30.5 x 37.2 cm, sheet
z - Performance No 6. [body on floor in foreground], 29.5 x 35.6 cm, image
z - Performance No 6. [body on floor in foreground], 30.6 x 40.3 cm, sheet
aa - Performance No 6. [Julie and Geoff Parr sitting on chairs, faces obscured], 35.7 x 29.5 cm, image
aa - Performance No 6. [Julie and Geoff Parr sitting on chairs, faces obscured], 40.8 x 30 cm, sheet
bb - Performance No 6. [bound body], 35.7 x 25.5 cm, image
bb - Performance No 6. [bound body], 42 x 30.5 cm, sheet
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.l. window mount [nos.a-bb], ink "...Mike Parr.../.../...April/ May 1979".
- Credit
- Purchased 1980
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 37.1980.a-bb
- Copyright
- © Mike Parr. Photograph by John Delacour
- Artist information
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Mike Parr
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About
Photographer: John Delacour
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Project 38- Re-constructed Vision, Contemporary work with photography (1981), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 Jul 1981–23 Aug 1981
Three years on: acquisitions 1978-81, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Oct 1981–01 Dec 1981
Off the Wall / In the Air: A seventies' selection, Monash University Gallery, Clayton, 28 Jun 1991–10 Aug 1991
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Bibliography
Referenced in 5 publications
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David Bromfield, Identities: A critical study of the work of Mike Parr 1970-1990, 3: 'Theatre of Self Correction', p119-220, Nedlands, 1991, 168 (illus.), 207-210 (colour illus.).
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Charles Green, Off the Wall / In the Air: A seventies selection, 'Living in the seventies', p5-20, Unknown, 1991, 11 (illus.), 17 (colour illus.). cat. no. 122, It is not known which works from the Black Box series were actually shown in this exhibition.
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Bernice Murphy, The Australian Bicentennial Perspecta, 'Mike Parr', Sydney, 1987, 73 (illus.). This work was not in the exhibition but is illustrated in the catalogue.
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Bernice Murphy, Three years on: a selection of acquisitions 1978-1981, 'Contemporary Art - Australian, European and American', pg. 37-46, Sydney, 1981, 38, 43 (illus.). cat.no. 10
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Gael Newton, Re-constructed Vision: Contemporary work with photography, Sydney, 1981, (illus.). cat.no.36, Four cibachrome photographs were used from the series of 28 but it is not sure which four.
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