Program Guide 2010 Program Guide | Page 56

USA/Australia

Up Close traces the significant legacy of
Australian photographer Carol Jerrems, and
situates her work alongside that of other photobased artists from the 1970s and 1980s: Larry
Clark and Nan Goldin from New York, and
William Yang from Sydney.
Sharing an interest in sub-cultural groups and
individuals on the margins of society, each artist
reveals a remarkable capacity to provide an
empathetic glimpse into semi-private worlds
through intimate depictions of people and their
surroundings. The exhibition exposes the fragility
of life and flirts with the spectre of mortality, as
the artists’ cameras delve into the often selfdestructive lives of their fringe-dwelling subjects.
Up Close features an extensive display of Jerrems’
photographs, films and items drawn from her
archive, including newly discovered prints and
previously unseen out-takes from Kathy Drayton’s
film, The Girl in the Mirror (2005). These are
complemented by Clark’s images of marginalised
youth, including from his Tulsa portfolio; Yang’s
celebratory images of Sydney’s gay scene in
the 1970s; and Goldin’s iconic The Ballad of
Sexual Dependency, a photographic slide work
chronicling the lives of her friends, family and
lovers.
A 260-page book on Carol Jerrems with a chapter devoted to each of
her contemporaries – Nan Goldin, Larry Clark and William Yang – is
co-published by Heide Museum of Modern Art and Schwartz City to
accompany the exhibition.

BEHIND THE LENS:
UP CLOSE ON FILM
Presented by Melbourne International Arts Festival,
the Australian Centre for the Moving Image and
Heide Museum of Modern Art

Event Information
Heide Museum of Modern Art
7 Templestowe Rd, Bulleen
Sat 31 Jul – Sun 31 Oct
Tue – Sun 10am – 5pm
Closed Mon
FREE
www.heide.com.au
Images: (top) Robert Ashton, Carol Jerrems, Prahran 1970
Courtesy the artist © Robert Ashton
(bottom) Larry Clark, Untitled,1979
Purchased 1980 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
© Larry Clark
Image courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York

Get a glimpse of the photographers behind the
camera with these two documentaries about
two of the artists featured in Heide Museum of
Modern Art’s Up Close exhibition.
Girl In A Mirror Kathy Drayton, 2005, Rated M
Kathy Drayton’s award-winning film offers a vibrant
portrait of the counterculture of 1970s Sydney and
Melbourne as seen through the eyes of the iconic
Australian photographer Carol Jerrems.
The screening is introduced with a short talk by
Natalie King, guest curator of Up Close: Carol
Jerrems with Larry Clark, Nan Goldin and William
Yang, and followed by a Q & A with the film’s
director Kathy Drayton, chaired by Natalie King.
Sadness Tony Ayres, 1999, Rated M
A moving and unforgettable filmic adaptation of
William Yang’s acclaimed stage performance, Sadness,
as told by celebrated Australian filmmaker Tony Ayres
(The Home Song Stories, Walking on Water).
The screening is introduced with a short talk
by Jason Smith, Director and CEO of Heide
Museum of Modern Art, and followed by a Q
& A with the film’s director Tony Ayres and artist
William Yang, chaired by Jason Smith.

Event Information
Australian Centre for the Moving Image,
ACMI Cinemas
Sun 17 Oct at 3.30pm
2hr 15min
Please note there will be a 25min break between
the two films

Guest Curator Natalie King

Full........................................................... $14
Concession................................................$11

WARNING Adult Themes, Nudity

Not eligible for Discount Packages
ACMI Box Office [phone]
www.acmi.net.au
Image: Carol Jerrems, Vale Street, 1975
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Gift of the Philip Morris Arts Grant, 1982
© Ken Jerrems & the Estate of Lance Jerrems

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Festival
Out of
Melbourne

World Premiere
Season

up close:
Carol
Jerrems
with Larry
Clark, Nan
Goldin and
William
Yang
Presented by Heide Museum of Modern Art
in association with Melbourne International
Arts Festival

Regional Touring

Australia/Cambodia

Melbourne Exclusive

the
hawker's
song

Sue McCauley, Keith
Deverell, Srey Bandol,
Meas Sokhorn

Presented by Melbourne International Arts
Festival, City of Greater Dandenong and Signal

Street hawkers, singing plaintive songs designed
to sell their wares, are an important part of life
in Phnom Penh that is fast disappearing. The
streets no longer bustle with the sounds of the
bicycle carts and the sellers’ songs are not heard
as often. After decades of war and political strife,
the citizens of the capital are being propelled
by urban development to move quickly into a
globalised future. The Hawker's Song focuses
on themes of memory, loss and urbanisation.
Inspired by the rich cultural tradition of orality,
exchange and commerce that appears to be
dying in this race towards ‘modernisation’, the
work highlights global concerns around the
death of the local, in the face of capital and
technological progression.
Renowned Australian and Cambodian artists
have collaborated on The Hawker’s Song cultural
exchange project, creating a video and sound
installation that celebrates the precarious survival
of this unique aspect of Cambodian life. The
components of this work are projected in three
locations: Signal on the banks of the Yarra River,
a disused ticket box on the Springvale Railway
Station and the window of The Laundrette,
Springvale. Poetic video portraits of hawkers
plying their trade are accompanied by exquisite
sound compositions. Hawker calls and ambience

from the streets of Phnom Penh have been
interwoven with recordings made in Melbourne of
expatriate Cambodians remembering the calls of
days gone by.
During the Festiv