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Myth and Practice - Film, Video and Sound Work by Sriwhana Spong Opens Tonight at Film Archive
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- Auckland-based artist Sriwhana Spong has been exploring the medium of video art for over 6 years and has steadily gained momentum in her practice. Her new show and installation Myth and Practice includes film, video and sound work that was developed during a recent residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York earlier this year. The show opens at the Film Archive tonight,Spong's work explores identity, mythology, nostalgia and impressions. Highly cinematic, her pieces evoke both a subtle anxiety and a sort of sci-fi romanticism. Three pieces feature in Myth and Practice. For Chelsea Hotel, Spong roamed the corridors of the hotel and captured the mythologised building with hand-wound, black and white Super 8.The Birds is a sound work which was created through the direct translation of an image of birds sitting on a telephone wire into a 21 second piano piece. It is scored by Godfrey de Grut and interpreted visually by Kelvin Soh and Simon Oosterdijk of The Wilderness design team.Room 424 is a series of photographs taken of what is known as Leonard Cohen's former residence at the Chelsea Hotel. A graduate of the Elam School of Fine Arts, Spong was the recipient of the coveted Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award in 2005. She will also speak about her practice at the Film Archive on Friday at 12.15pm.Myth and PracticeFilm Archive5.30pm tonightFree- Kiran
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