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Blue Circles #1–#8 2002–3 [18:16]
Sound has been present in Julian Dashper's art since the early 1990s. The artist has collaborated with musicians such as Michael Morley (The Dead C) and Hamish Kilgour (The Clean) as well as making his own field recordings. Currently playing are Dashper's Blue Circles #1–#8 – eight separate yet consecutive recordings taken at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra in front of Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles: Number 11, 1952. Dashper's sequence of recordings captures time and life elapsing around the static painting; the sounds of echoing footsteps, children talking and laughing, hushed comments and conversation, continuous white noise from air conditioning ducts, and reverent silence fill the empty space surrounding the painting. The eight recordings reflect the eight vertical poles in Pollock's infamous action painting.
The Gallery owns a complete set of Dashper's Blue Circles#1–#8 12" records.
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Date:
6 June – 3 July 2009 -
Exhibition number:
829