Ecstatic City
Art
- Where
- National Gallery of Victoria, St Kilda Rd, Melb
- When
- 11am Saturday 25 October
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 largescale 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:
October 9 - 25, 2008, 11am - midnight.
Public Filming Event - Federation Square, Plaza:
Fri 26 Sep 9am - 6pm
Auslan interpretation:
Fri 26 Sep
1pm-3pm
This is a free event.
More info at MelbourneFestival.com.au.
Pic: Chris Doyle
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