2004
Site-specific installation of traces of two banner marches configured over
two rooms in the old Regent Theatre, Kellerberrin: in the theatre hall, two
looped DVD projections; one slide projection; in the old projection room,
pencil wall text, A4 sheets in plastic pockets pinned to the wall, dissembled
wooden banner marching frames.
Exh.: 22.06.1911/30.10.2004: Documents after Marching Season, IASKA (The Aurora
Project, Regent Theatre), Kellerberrin, 6 November 2004.
Two banner marches were undertaken for 22.06.1911/30.10.2004. These marches
took place in Kellerberrin, a small town in the West Australian wheat-belt,
on 30 October 2004. The first march took place at dawn, the second at dusk.
The dusk march was followed by a dinner for all those who had participated
in the marches.
The site-specific work 22.06.1911/30.10.2004: Documents after Marching Season configured traces from thee two banner marches into Kellerberrin’s disused old cinema, the Regent Theatre. Two video projections and slide projection filled the back wall of the old theatre hall. The cinemas old projection room displayed a pencil wall text, a catalogue of the creation of national boundaries since 1901 displayed on 22 A4 sheets, and the dissembled frames from the banner marches.
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22.06.1911/30.10.2004 is part of Marches for another
season, an ongoing project of banner marches initiated in 2003.
Traces from the Kellerberrin marches were also exhibited in the group exhibition From Space to Place, curated by Marco Marcon, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, and the group exhibition Ocular Lab: 12, at Spacement in Melbourne.
Other banner marches for this project have taken place in Melbourne, and Sydney.
Traces of the banner marching project have also been exhibited at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) in Melbourne.
For a list of writing on the banner marching project, click
here.
Credits for 22.06.1911/30.10.2004.
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