David Haines and Joyce Hinterding Geology 2015. Installation view, Energies: Haines & Hinterding, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2015. Commissioned by the MCA, supported by Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, New Zealand. Image courtesy of the artist and Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney. © the artist. Photo: Christopher Snee
David Haines and Joyce Hinterding Encounter with the Halo Field 2009/2015. Singlechannel video, sound, 3.38min. Commissioned by the Australian Network for Art and Technology and Art Monthly Australia, supported by the Australia Council for the Arts. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, purchased 2015
David Haines The Wollemi Kirlians 2014. Kirlian photographic images, pigment ink on rag paper. Image courtesy the artist and Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney. © the artist
Joyce Hinterding Large Square Logarithmic VLF Loop Antenna (detail) 2015. Installation view, Energies: Haines & Hinterding, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2015. Graphite, custom leads, mixer, headphones, ultrasonic speaker. Image courtesy of the artist and Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney. © the artist. Photo: Christopher Snee
This exhibition is now closed
See, hear, smell and feel the invisible energies that surround us as Australian artists David Haines and Joyce Hinterding summon unseen forces.
David Haines and Joyce Hinterding live and work in the Blue Mountains. Hinterding is fascinated with energetic forces, while Haines is drawn to the intersection of hallucination and the environment. Both artists are captivated by the unseen energies that surround us and seek to reveal them to audiences through their work. Science, the occult and philosophy are important elements of their practice.
Haines & Hinterding’s art incorporates sound, installation, video, performance, sculpture, photography and drawing. Many of their recent works also use computer game technologies. This is the first comprehensive survey of their work and includes immersive virtual 3D environments for visitors to explore and navigate.
A major work in the exhibition, Geology is described by the artists as ‘a virtual world that examines how culture interacts with chaotic forces’ and was inspired by a research trip to the damaged Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū after the earthquakes of 2011.
Other works include the installation EarthStar, which investigates ‘the sun’s elemental and mythic qualities’ and includes an HD video projection of the sun and two ozone fragrances; and Purple Rain, a video projection that responds to electromagnetic energy from digital television signals in the atmosphere.
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Date:
26 November 2016 – 5 March 2017 -
Location:
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū -
Curator:
Anna Davis -
Exhibition number:
1022 -
Presented with
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Contemporary Art Partner
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Energies: Haines & Hinterding
See, hear, smell and feel the invisible energies that surround us as Australian artists David Haines and Joyce Hinterding summon unseen forces.
David Haines and Joyce Hinterding live and work in the Blue Mountains. Hinterding is fascinated with energetic forces, while Haines is drawn to the intersection of hallucination and the environment. Both artists are captivated by the unseen energies that surround us and seek to reveal them to audiences through their work. Science, the occult and philosophy are important elements of their practice.
Haines & Hinterding’s art incorporates sound, installation, video, performance, sculpture, photography and drawing. Many of their recent works also use computer game technologies. This is the first comprehensive survey of their work and includes immersive virtual 3D environments for visitors to explore and navigate.
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This essay was written by curator Anna Davis for the Energies: Haines & Hinterding exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia in 2015.
The art of David Haines and Joyce Hinterding is characterised by its openness to the unseen forces that permeate human experience. Very low frequency (VLF) radio waves, television signals, paranormal events, satellite transmissions and psychic energies are all manifest within their work, which aims to summon these hidden realms and bring them to our senses. Using experimental and traditional media, they engage in an artistic dialogue with science, intersecting with areas such as electronics, solar research, geology, olfactory chemistry and high-energy physics. Aesthetic and metaphysical concerns are equally vital to their practice, which also traverses speculative and esoteric domains such as Reichian orgone energy and Kirlian ‘spirit’ photography.
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