Shaun Gladwell: Pacific Undertow is strictly for the.
What I can’t understand is the bottomless enthusiasm of the art world for Shaun Gladwell’s video works. Having watched the films and read the essays, these installations still feel like the very definition of tedium. Gladwell’s new piece, being shown at the Art Gallery of NSW, is called Broken Dance (Beatboxed).The video work of Shaun Gladwell takes physical interaction as a starting point for the interplay between gesture and form. His video work since the late 1990s has utilised the medium to record performative action — dance, sport, skateboarding and biking —and sets this movement within video works that are artfully and aesthetically composed.We thank the artists, Jananne Al-Ani, Baptist Coelho and Shaun Gladwell, for the work they produced for the exhibition, the many wonderful conversations, and for their engagement with the concept. Special thanks go to all those who generously assisted the artists in the research, development and production of new works for the exhibition.
Shaun Gladwell’s hypnotic video Midnight traceur, 2011, features parkour practitioner Ali Kadhim as he dexterously negotiates the urban landscape of Sydney.Parkour is a discipline that involves moving through the cityscape, attempting to travel from one location to another in the most efficient and quickest method possible, using only the body.Below is the catalog essay by Robin McKenzie. “Using an absurdist logic that joins together things belonging to different categories, the project of Shaun Gladwell is loose canon anarchic. Historical cultural material, contemporary technologies, and the urban landscape are boiled up together in his pot.
Shaun Gladwell - Essays THE CURVATURE OF THE EARTH. Dr. Blair French The Bike Rider. Clad in black jeans, leather jacket and helmet and viewed always from behind, the motorcycle rider is ever in motion away from us. He remains anonymous no matter how long we spend in front of the screen. The camera keeps a consistent tracking distance as the rider descends the outback highway, the slow-motion.
