Chris Doyle
WORLD
Premiere
Chris Doyle
Ecstatic City
Presented by Melbourne International Arts Festival
and NGV International
Rather than commemorating a particular hero or an important
historical event, these animated monuments turn instead to the
people who live in, work in and come to explore Melbourne:
the people that bring the city to life
Chris Doyle is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York, whose
work includes temporary and permanent projects in the public sphere. He is well
known for the high-rise-sized projection, LEAP and the large-scale collaborative
video installation that incorporated 45 artists and was presented simultaneously
throughout several hotels, the critically acclaimed work, 50,000 Beds.
Doyle was commissioned by Melbourne Festival to create a large-scale
public work. Part temporary architecture and part video projection, Ecstatic
City is situated in the moat of the NGV International. Designed as a kind of
‘miniplex marina’, viewers can explore the site and take in some remarkable
and refreshing video works that have been created by some of Australia’s
great moving image-makers. These will be projected continuously each day
of the Festival from 11am until midnight.
Meanwhile, from sunset, Doyle’s own video pieces – made for and featuring
Melburnians – are projected in epic scale along the exterior walls of the
miniplexes and the NGV International itself, transforming the buildings into a
veritable moving sculpture of light.
Installation:
NGV International, the Moat
Public Filming Event:
Federation Square, Plaza
Tue 9 – Sat 25 Oct
11am – 12midnight
Fri 26 Sep
9am – 6pm
FESTIVAL CALL OUT FOR
PUBLIC FILMING EVENT!
Join Chris Doyle and his collaborators on Friday 26 September and become
part of this very special project in a day-long multiple video shoot. While in
residence with the Festival last year, Doyle took particular note of some of
Melbourne’s icons: the Flinders Street Station Clock Tower, the various memorial
statuary and the variety of fountains around the public spaces of Melbourne that
are now switched off due to water restrictions. Doyle and his team are looking
for willing participants to pose as statues, as clock hands or as a ‘new fountain’
by jumping into the air. Imagine the thrill of seeing yourself, your friends and
fellow Melburnians projected at night onto the NGV International, while all
around the city bustles with Festival fever!
“The traditional notion of a monument is
something gilded or carved in stone, which
represents something culture has deemed to
be important. I’m interested in taking a slice of
everyday life and holding it up and saying ‘This
too is important’.” Chris Doyle, Time Out New York
Free
www.melbournefestival.com.au
Auslan Interpretation:
1pm – 3pm
Supported by
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