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ItemChandelier (for Vladmir Tatlin)(Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, 2020)‘Off The Walls’ is a VR-exhibition, curated by Rita Macarounas an Lukas Bendel at the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art in Darwin. Artwork made through the use of VR has the uniqueness to be able, not only to express the precise moment of the subject matter after its creation, but also the entire journey of its composition. Our viewers can immerse themselve in a moving story! The curators of this show hope to engage our audience in a novel experience using high-tech creatively. Virtual reality can generate artwork, presented to our senses in such a way that we experience it as if we are actually there in its midst, even though it remains, otherwise invisible, to other visitors. Seven local artists (Bill Davies, Benita Mills, Christian Bok, Jimmy Bamble, Jonathon Saunders, Kaye Strange, and Kelly Vains) have created artworks with the use of VR technology. For the majority of the artists, this experience represents an inaugural encounter with this medium.
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ItemPage 73 — The Flourish of Liberty(The Laurence Sterne Trust, 2020)Shandy Hall has invited 102 artists to respond to the idea of ‘Liberty,' as seen expressed in 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman' by Laurence Sterne. ‘Trim’s Squiggle’ or ‘The Flourish of Liberty’ in Volume IX of this novel represents an exuberant declaration in the form of visual poetry. Laurence Sterne invites the reader to join him in an exercise of imagination and interpretation, all intended to bring his novel to life. On page 17, the reader learns that Uncle Toby and Trim are marching up to the house of Widow Wadman so that Uncle Toby can propose marriage: 'Nothing, continued the Corporal, can be so sad as confinement for life – or so sweet, an’ please your honour, as liberty. Nothing, Trim – said my Uncle Toby, musing – Whil’st a man is free – cried the corporal, giving a flourish with his stick thus – And suddenly the story receives a visual jolt – a writhing squiggle that represents the pathway of Trim’s cane through the air. How this flourish hatches in the mind of the reader depends upon each individual. Is the flourish a languid and stately passage? A rapier swish? Is it from top to bottom, or bottom to top? The exhibition features the work of globally renowned artists and writers, all of whom have responded to this flourish of ‘Liberty,’ so as to showcase their 'license' under this instruction.