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NEW - Being Kazimir Malevich
Sarah Scout Presents Documentation Images: Andrew Curtis
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NEW - Floorwork, 2014
Documentation Images: Christo Crocker
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NEW - Well, Hello! 2017
curated by Colin Langridge Kelly’s Garden Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart image credit: Frances Butler
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NEW - BEING KAZIMIR MALEVICH, 2018
Monash Faculty Gallery documentation images: Christo Crocker
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NEW - NEON PISS, 2017
Superdeals Brussels Documentation images: Michael De Lausnay
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NEW - PISSING, 2017
TCB Art Inc Documentation images: Christo Crocker
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NEW - Bang head, repeatedly
‘Bang head, repeatedly’ at the exhibition, ‘Hope Dies Last: Art at the End of Optimism’ curated by Mark Feary. Gertrude Contemporary. Image credit: Christo Crocker Hope Dies Last: Art at the End of Optimism is a curated exhibition of Australian and international contemporary art presented across two sites, Gertrude Contemporary and the Margaret Lawrence Gallery at the Victorian College of the Arts. The project focuses on how artists consider the depletion of optimism, how they might envisage the end of days, and how they make sense of these tumultuous times. Exploring themes of mortality, fatalism, extinction, pain(both emotional and physical), failure and downfall, the works largely focus on the specific moment when hope evaporates for the final time. Explored with compassion, humour, sadness and resignation, Hope Dies Last confronts our individual and collective anxieties around death, reminding us of the certainty of this fate, yet recognising this conclusionary moment as one we will experience alone. Hope Dies Last is one of the most depressing events of the year, an exhibition that will riddle us with sadness, and likely leave us more pessimistic than we have ever been before.
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NEW - The Window at Mitchell House
Image Credit: Andrew Curtis Supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grant
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NEW - It’s Not the Bullet That Kills You (It’s the Hole), 2021
Neon, perspex, 85 x 95 cm. Image credit: J. Forsyth EXHIBITION TEXT - TO RESOUND, UNBOUND by Jack Willet Curated by Jack Willet with Hannah Brontë, Hootan Heydari, Callum McGrath, Anne Moffat, Sara Oscar, Sanja Pahoki, Jessica Schwientek and Emmaline Zanelli Consider the artist as a surface, possibly solid and flat like marble, or soft and rippled like foam, even a combination of the two. All surfaces resound or echo in some way, perhaps softening or distorting, directly reiterating or if the surface allows there is the potential for total absorption. To resound, unbound explores the possibilities of this resounding, seeing the artist adapt or unbind that which comes to them, molding it to their artistic will, to then resound it back through artistic expression. Echoing throughout all four exhibition spaces, To resound, unbound presents a series of new commissions and significant works from emerging and established lens-based practitioners from across Australia. This group of eight artists explore themes concerning knowledge, memory, identity, trauma, representation and time, typically found in both societal and cultural structures and narratives.
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NEW - Groundwork, 2014
DUDSPACE got a little dud-er when Sanja Pahoki exhibited her recent work. What do Charlie Kaufman, Kazimir Malevich, the ferry from St. Petersburg to Helsinki, the Glasshouse Mountains and Pahoki’s mother have in common? Nothing. You can’t get any lower than Groundwork. Documentation Images: Andrew Curtis
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NEW - My Baby Shot Me Down, 2015
Nik Pantazopoulos Studio & Project Space 23 Albert Street, Northcote, 3070 Documentation Images: Andrew Curtis
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NEW - Floorwork, Monash Faculty Gallery, 2014
Documentation Images: Andrew Curtis
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BLOG - GEELONG AFTER DARK
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BLOG - BEFORE AND AFTER MALEVICH SURVEY RESULTS
Question 1
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BLOG - BEFORE AND AFTER MALEVICH SURVEY RESULTS
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BLOG - BEFORE AND AFTER MALEVICH SURVEY RESULTS
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BLOG - BEFORE AND AFTER MALEVICH SURVEY RESULTS
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BLOG - BEFORE AND AFTER MALEVICH SURVEY RESULTS
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BLOG - BEFORE AND AFTER MALEVICH SURVEY RESULTS
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BLOG - BEFORE AND AFTER MALEVICH SURVEY RESULTS
Question 10
https://www.sanjapahoki.com/blog/2014/9/15/the-big-east-biggerer-saturday-4th-october-1100am-to-400pm
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2014-09-15
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BLOG - COMING SOON: The Big East (BIGGERER): Saturday 4th October, 11:00am to 4:00pm
Floorwork (World Championship Wrestling), Video, 2014
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2014-08-02
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BLOG - Spring. 1883
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BLOG - Photo Shoot with D & K (Dolci & Kabana)
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BLOG - Photo Shoot with D & K (Dolci & Kabana)
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BLOG - Interview in Finnish Photography Magazine - Kamera Lehti
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BLOG - Interview in Finnish Photography Magazine - Kamera Lehti
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BLOG - Interview in Finnish Photography Magazine - Kamera Lehti
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2014-12-30
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2014-08-18
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2014-08-04
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BLOG - Opening Tonight: Failure Works
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2015-09-03
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BLOG - An Informal Talk About Our Dads at MUMA on Saturday 5th September, 2-4PM
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BLOG - MY BABY SHOT ME DOWN
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BLOG - WRITTEN IN LIGHT
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2015-05-23
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BLOG - MILK & COOKIES CURATED BY ERIC DEMETRIOU
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2015-08-23
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BLOG - TCB ART INC FUNDRAISER
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2015-11-06
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BLOG - Temporality: Exhibition Opens 6-8PM Thursday 24th September, 2015
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2015-11-06
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BLOG - AS IF : Echoes from London PERFORMANCE
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2016-03-02
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BLOG - Support Materials, Soft Furnishings at RMIT Project Space
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2016-03-02
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Documentation image by Christo Crocker
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wow (documentation image by Christo Crocker)
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2016-03-08
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BLOG - Make it Up Club
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2016-04-06
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BLOG - Milk & Cookies Too
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2016-06-08
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BLOG - Long-distance relationship
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2016-12-01
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BLOG - 'SPLASH' with Annabelle Kingston
Documentation Images by Adam Stone
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BLOG - 'SPLASH' with Annabelle Kingston
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BLOG - 'SPLASH' with Annabelle Kingston
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2016-07-08
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BLOG - The Joke
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2016-12-01
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BLOG - c3 Contemporary Art Space Annual Fundraiser
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2017-04-24
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BLOG - Commencement - Gloss Over Rawness
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2017-05-08
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BLOG - The End of Time, The Beginning of Time
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2017-05-22
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BLOG - 'Floorwork' at 55 Sydenham Road, Marrickville, NSW
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BLOG - Well, Hello!
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BLOG - Well, Hello!
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PISSING, 2017
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PAST - It's like killing 2 birds with 2 stones, 2012
with Kiron Robinson and Simon Zoric Documentation Images: Christo Crocker Catalogue Text: Melanie Flynn LOLCAT, ROFL, LMAO and other initialisms (or know your MEMES) To kill two birds with one stone, understood to mean an efficient act of getting more work done with less resources, is counter intuitive to this exhibition. The works here create more work for the artist, things that appear obvious or easy, simple or lazy are layered, difficult or subversive. Coming from a background in photography, each artist uses drawing – that isn’t drawing – to produce works that address how culture is valued, transmitted and rejected. Richard Dawkins wrote about the concept of memes in 1976 to describe how ideas spread within a culture[1]. With natural selection, cultural acts are transmitted, imitated, and mutated. The term memes however is now understood and used completely unawares of this anthropological definition. A common definition still describes the sharing and evolving of popular culture, but across the technological platform of the Internet. Visiting websites such as Know your memes[2], you can view ten versions of the same film clip[3], made independently by different people across the world. Using one base source, lyrics, moves and meaning are replaced with others specific to the appropriating culture, while still using the style and some symbols of the ‘original’ form. We efficiently and rapidly create copies of information, adjusting and adapting the meaning to allow it to be more relevant to our specific locality. That these cultural items then travel globally via the ubiquitous (invasive / pervasive) YouTube and the like, and have a life outside the expected audience, only continues to feed the process of evolution. In this, language is key, as it to is the works in this exhibition. And language is changing and adapted to give direct ‘branding’ of a certain idea. If you search the Internet for lolcat you will find that this bizarre phrase relates to pictures of cats, overwritten with humorous text, explaining what the cat is doing/ thinking/ seeing in grammatically incorrect childish tone. Lolcat. Only recently lol (laugh out loud) came into usage and now creating, circulating or viewing lolcats is a pastime for some. Sanja Pahoki’s neon work uses the initialism ‘lol’ as part of the hangman game, where people have to choose letters and guess the word before they run out of strokes. A drawing in neon, the work is simultaneously humorous and unsettling. Whether it presents slang as a death knell to existing communication or simply as the way future generations will streamline language is unclear. But it’s use of commonly understood imagery from disparate generations talks to the notion of cultural evolution and the fluidity of conceptual ownership. In Simon Zoric’s work Rage Comics (web comics with characters, sometimes referred to as “rage faces”, that are often created with simple drawing software such as MS Paint[4]) are employed to tell a ‘true’ story about the evolution of an artwork. Teaching students and hearing new ideas raises issues of ethics in terms of how art is owned or circulated. As an artist, you can’t hold onto any idea with a real sense of copyright or trademark, as you can other items valued as commodities. The real commodity of a painting is also missing here, as it is only visible remotely through the use of a QR code. The story of an artist using a student’s idea as seen in this Rage Comic, questions the normal format of ending with a humorous punch line – here the artist gives up and is hated by the student- but also perverts the natural order of value in the art world by refusing to provide the tangible object. For Kiron Robinson, the unassuming upturned fruit box is a symbol of this same doubt and failure. Appearing literally to be a painted fruit box on a stick, the sculpture is a fabrication. Cast in black resin, this remnant of cardboard, plastic and wood, questions the solidity of our understanding of what everything is. We accept that we are surrounded by objects that we use and discard, but don’t often question how they carry meaning. In his use of paradoxical or baffling objects, Robinson speaks directly to the notion of how an idea, located in the past or across continents, speaks to us. This humble experience of packing or unpacking groceries seems self-explanatory, but upturned, it is useless, void. An already poorly valued item becomes art. In The Alterations, each artist creates a meme from another’s work. Sanja puts her face on Simon and scribbles a catch phrase on Kiron. Kiron gives Simon sweaty armpits and tags Sanja’s work with urine. Simon critiques Kiron’s photography and quotes Woody Allen to Sanja. By re-issuing their own works to other artists they are giving up their cultural possessions, investing instead in a broader interest – that of ideas. A new iteration is born which can be accepted or discarded, to be re-worked, re-named, re-exhibited again, if anyone is interested. Melanie Flynn, June 2012 [1] Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 1989, p.192 [2] http://knowyourmeme.com/memes [3] See for example http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/everyday-im-shufflin [4] http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/rage-comics
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PAST - Building Under Snow, 2011
Chromogenic Print, 125 x 162.5 cm, chair (Ikea) HEVY: Simon Horsburgh, Lou Hubbard, Sanja Pahoki, Kiron Robinson and Lani Seligman. curated by Kiron Robinson and Lani Seligman. Documentation Images: Christo Crocker
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PAST - English as a Second Language, 2013
with Ka-Yin Kwok
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PAST - I have loved and I have been loved, 2011
Sanja Pahoki's 'I have loved and I have been loved' was supported by Australia Council for the Arts (Suomenlinna Residency, Helsinki). Documentation Images: Andrew Curtis
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PAST - Wow, 2013
Documentation Images: Andrew Curtis
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PAST - To the Centre of the Earth and Back (Iceland), 2012
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PAST - nothing something something somethink
Sub12 curated by Jessica Bridgfoot Documentation images: Andrew Curtis ___________________________________________ Nothing Something Something Somethink, 2012 Neon Lol, 2012 Neon Two spaces. Two neon works. Light. One space is an L-shaped room with a dead-end. A game of hangman in neon is installed in the darkened cavern. You lose. LOL. Really. ROFL. The other space is a corridor. Corridors are spaces that you pass through. Just passing through onto the main event. Corridors are nothing. It’s difficult to consider nothing without something. Artists, it has been said, make something out of nothing. I made something out of something. And that something isn’t just another something, it’s a somethink. Diagnostics. Diagnosis. Can be confused with Prognosis. Look, look again. . Percept. “It’s something that Impressionist painters used to do. Whenever they were unsure of the true colour of something, they’d look at its reflection in a piece of black glass. They thought that the only way they could ever see the true nature of something was to reflect it onto something dark.” [1] Or as John Cage puts it – “Once I was visiting my Aunt Marge. She was doing her laundry. She turned to me and said, “You know? I love this machine much more than I do your Uncle Walter.” [2] ___________ [1] Miss Wyoming, Douglas Coupland, Vintage, London, 2000 [2] Quoted in ‘From Zero to Nothing in No Time’, Francis McKee, www.francismckee.org
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PAST - 'Hello' in 'Ultra Neon'
Ultra Neon Brad Haylock, Euan Heng, Fiona Macdonald, Sanja Pahoki, Kiron Robinson, Andy Thomson; curated by Light Projects In a playful response to the gallery’s street frontage, Light Projects presents a mini-survey of neon works. Text-based or abstract, wall-based or sculptural, Ultra Neon assembles neon works from a variety of practices into a densely hung dialogue
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ARCHIVE - Sanja Pahoki at ACCA @ Mirka, 2009
Documentation Images: John Brash
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ARCHIVE - Strangeland, 2007
with Janina Green, Jo Scicluna and Brie Trennery Documentation Images: John Brash
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ARCHIVE - The Pahoki Family: A Portrait, 2008
Documentation Images: Andrew Curtis Catalogue Text: The first thing I did when I received a Gertrude Studio was to invest in a laptop computer and a good quality radio. I’m not an artist that paints or draws in their studio. I spend most of my time day-dreaming and procrastinating, and yes I do seem to spend much time googling my name just to see if anything new comes up. As far as I am aware, there are only five of us Pahokis (+1, my sister in-law) in Australia. And actually there isn’t heaps of stuff on pahoki on the web. Sometimes I’ll type in variations in case my name was misspelt ‘pohoki, pohaki, paholi, etc.’ The things you find when you google. I found out that there is a town in Florida called Pahoki that is so small it’s basically a trailer park. Not very glamorous. Then there was the time I came across a Pahoki reference in the ‘Cultural Code Words of the Hopi People’: ‘ … there has long been a Hopi pahoki (pah-hoh-kee) or “shrine” on the mountain, but to outsiders a pahoki is no more than a pile of rocks.’ And a favourite google search result was the day that I came across the words ‘Pahoki and the Skunk’. It was in someone’s blog. ‘In the process of rescuing and adopting Pahoki and the Skunk, I learned that the Kansas City area has organizations dedicated to adopting rabbits and guinea pigs, but there are no adoption organizations for hamsters, gerbils, mice or rats.’ Google™: keeps it real. - Sanja Pahoki
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ARCHIVE - Shut Up My Darling, 2008
Documentation Images: Andrew Curtis Single-channel video.
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ARCHIVE - Ill Communication, 2007
Danielle Freakly, Chris Hanrahan, Todd McMillan and Sanja Pahoki curated by Jacqueline Doughty Documentation Images: Andrew Curtis
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ARCHIVE - MY MASTER'S PIECE, 2005
Work in Progress exhibition in the Second Year of the Master of Fine Art by Research at the Victorian College of the Arts.
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ARCHIVE - The answer to all my problems, 2007
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ARCHIVE - Doubt, 2006
Simon Horsburgh, Lou Hubbard, Teddy Wu Kwok, Sanja Pahoki, Kiron Robinson and Lani Seligman. curated by Kiron Robinson and Lani Seligman. Images: Sanja Pahoki.
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ARCHIVE - The Waiting, 2006
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ARCHIVE - Polar, 2007
Jeremy Drape, Simon Horsburgh, Lou Hubbard, Sanja Pahoki, Kiron Robinson, Lani Seligman and Utako Shindo. curated by Kiron Robinson and Lani Seligman.
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ARCHIVE - Trying To Make Art While On Residency In Iceland: View From Within The Car Or Not That Far Away From The Car
A group of foreign artists travelling by car in search of the mighty Snæfellsjökull.
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ARCHIVE - I haven't been feeling myself lately
Master of Fine Art by Research exhibition shown at AREA Contemporary Art Space, Fitzroy I haven’t been feeling myself lately Sanja Pahoki employs everyday mediums such as photography, video and text to explore observations from everyday life. I haven’t been feeling myself lately investigates existential issues such as the nature of self, identity and the role of anxiety. In particular, the exhibition is directed at the moments of losing it and the efforts to keep it together. In I haven’t been feeling myself lately various techniques that are used to stave off anxiety and enhance feelings of well-being are explored, such as Yoga, meditation and tree-hugging. As the initial inspiration for a lot of the work has its roots in the autobiographical, humour is sometimes used as a subtly subversive strategy to focus the attention away from the personal to shared universal concerns.
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ARCHIVE - Suitable Women
Citylights Projects Review by Samantha Semmens LIKE Art Magazine, Spring 2001 The transitory, fugitive element whose metamorphoses are so rapid must on no account be despised... (Charles Baudelaire) It's a little bit cold, a little bit harsh, but this scrutiny of the subject has to do with not evading the facts, not evading what it really looks like. (Diane Arbus) Unlike Walker Evans' 'Female Pedestrian, New York', Sanja Pahoki's subjects are not shot in mid‑step. Instead of capturing the 'fugitive element' in action ‑ the hurried stride of the city worker ‑ Pahoki has slowed the pace. She has beckoned commuters from the rush hour flow, used flash lighting to create the illusion of perfect stillness, and then suspended the images on light boxes in the becalmed space of a cul‑de‑sac, off an arcade, off a lane. Yet her camera's slow scrutiny has not produced a pacified image of women, but has recorded something at work in their bodies (or in their bodies at work) that is between the transitory and the fixed. The four photographs make visible the codes of movement and inhibition already inscribed on the bodies of women as they alight each day from their trains, make for the towers behind them and scale corporate heights with varying degrees of success. At first these women look poised to make it; primed for the ascent in runners that denote not only movement, but stamina, endurance and prowess. The photographs seductively portray these women as being in harmony with their surroundings. There is a kind of shared morphology between the ‘body' of the city ‑ the clutch of corporate towers ‑ and the bodies of the women. The standing figures, with their erect torsos, straight limbs and sturdy shoes buttress the tower's denotation as "'stature", "status", "stability", "establishment" and "estate” [which] all share the root sta (to stand)'.1 Colour saturates the images with a palette that blends skin into stone and cloth into concrete and glass. A woman dressed in polished slate‑grey stands on shaded concrete overlooked by shiny, darkened windows. Another, in her buff coloured coat, stands before the equally buff‑coloured Collins Place Tower, which rises up behind her in a seeming extension of her body. Here, the city takes on a softness with warm, skin‑like facades. The light has a liquid quality that washes over the images and pools onto the women's faces where the flash has caught, accentuating the continuity between figures and cityscape. Yet there is something uncanny about all of this apparent harmony. The city looks eerily silent and uncommonly pristine. While the staging of the shots did not impinge on the surrounding choreography of the street, Pahoki's camera has recorded something resembling a film set onto which the extras ‑ the mass of workers ‑ have not yet been called, like the frozen streetscape in The Truman Show seconds before the 'rush hour’ cue. The buildings themselves, their soaring lines so sharply delineated, appear hyperreal; more like an abstract principle of perfection than something that will actually arm corporate lessees with the solidity, security and permanence supposedly ascribed to stone. The women in their hybrid attire also embody a corporate identity that does not cohere. If getting the dress code right is symbolic of worldly success, these women are instead flouting the corporate code that privileges the rational, controlled (and notably male) body. They are not even trying, as a dearth of discreet black sneakers or sensible leather lace-ups attests! But rather than refusing to 'play the game', they reveal their position within it. What makes their attire 'suitable' is that it allows for a tension between being 'corporate' and being a woman. It is notable that corporate women are expected to embody both masculinity and femininity in their dress and behaviour at work, being, for instance, both a 'softening influence' and a savvy key player. Negotiating these boundaries can be confusing, as a comment made by a female financier in London suggests: 'l wear these men's shirts, I mean they are ladies', they are made for ladies at a men's tailors'.2 Likewise, the runners both avow and disavow femininity, replacing yet also alluding to the feminine heels concealed in carry bags. The cul‑de‑sac off Centre Place where the images are exhibited is, like the images themselves, contradictory. It is a feminine space ‑ enclosing ‑ yet of itself neither closed nor open. It is neither outside nor inside, insofar as it is walled yet open to the sky. In other ways, too, this little appendix is liminal ‑ neither for work nor for leisure, and at once abject and edifying, with both rubbish bins and art lining its walls. The installed light-boxes boldly lay claim to the cul‑de‑sac, without colonising it as private gallery space. Thus it is left open for artists and the passing public to interpret the contradictions and unlikely meetings it engenders. The women Pahoki has photographed may still only be lightly imprinted on the corporate world, grappling with the contradictions it poses, yet their bodies resist a purely feminised inscription. Likewise, their brightly‑lit images are not absorbed by the space of the cul‑de‑sac, but leap from its walls. Footnotes 1. Kim Dovey, Framing Places: Mediating Power in Built Form, (London: Routledge, 1999), p. 109. 2. Linda McDowell, Capital Culture:Gender at Work in the City, (Oxford Blackwell, 1997), p. 146.
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ARCHIVE - BANG HEAD, REPEATEDLY, 2007
24-seven, Melbourne
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ARCHIVE - POSTER PROJECT COLLABORATION WITH NICOLE ADERS
‘Global Fusion: Close Up’, co-ord. by Maggie McCormick (Australia), Claudia-Maria Luenig (Germany), and Elena Panayotova (Romania), Melbourne City Tram Shelters
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ARCHIVE - Cub Separated From Spooked Polar Bear, 2009
Documentation images: John Brash CUB SEPARATED FROM SPOOKED POLAR BEAR Cub separated from spooked polar bear is Sanja Pahoki’s latest investigation into mother-child relationships, mental illness and language. The exhibition is based on media reportage of two polar bear cubs that were hand-reared by German zookeepers after being rejected by their mothers. One of the mothers became disturbed when a photographer entered her enclosure. The zoo feared that the fate of the polar bear cub, named Flocke would follow that of two other cubs that had been eaten by their mother, Vilma. Flocke has been compared to Berlin Zoo’s celebrity polar bear, Knut, who was also rejected by his mother Tosca, an ex-East European circus performer. Like Elvis Presley, Knut had a twin brother that died shortly after birth. At the height of Knut’s fame he was photographed by Annie Leibovitz and featured on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine with Leonardo DiCaprio. The decision to hand-rear polar bears has been controversial with some animal activists claiming that the zoos should have let ‘nature take its course’ by leaving the cubs to die. As vindication of this belief there has been speculation about Knut’s mental health. Zookeepers have claimed that Knut is a ‘psychopath’ who is addicted to human adulation.
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