Gina Czarnecki - Spine
Featuring film footage of dancers from the Australian Dance Theatre and produced for exhibition in public spaces, Gina Czarnecki's Nascent is a meeting ground for reflection on the body, humanity, technology and science.
Projected onto a vast vertical building façade and accompanied by sound, the sheer scale and beauty of Spine captures and intrigues the imagination. The imagery evolves from complex masses of cell-like structures, to graceful friezes of bodies whose movement is distorted in time, creating tableaux breathtaking in beauty and rich in texture. Eventually, the intertwined bodies resemble a new life form, observed like a biological sample in flux, multiplying, mutating.
Developed in collaboration with biotechnologists, computer programmers, dancers and sound artists, Czarnecki’s films and installations are informed by human relationships to image, disease, evolution, genetic research, and by advanced technologies of image production.
Exhibition
2 – 12 Mar 06 | AV Festival 06, Civic Centre Bell Tower, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
28 Jun – 23 Aug 06 | Laneways06, Union Lane, Melbourne, AU
13 February – 8 March 2009 | Art:City, Perth International Arts Festival, AU
Spine by Gina Czarnecki
Produced by Forma, commissioned by AV Festival 06
and supported by Arts Council England
