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SUZANNE TREISTER

No Other Symptoms - Time Travelling with Rosalind Brodsky

 

18th, 19th and 20th August 2000

(opening night Friday 18th August 6 - 8.30pm)

 
Grey Matter Contemporary Art in association with DIGIMATTER is pleased to present the official Australian CD-ROM publication launch of 'No Other Symptoms - Time Travelling with Rosalind Brodsky' by artist Suzanne Treister.

This will be complemented by a 3 day exhibition of artefacts from the archives of the Institute of Militronics and Advanced Time Interventionality, who have retrieved and collated Brodsky's personal effects after her death in 2058. These include a large collection of her delusional watercolours, designs, manufactured products, various documents and other miscellany; a cross sampling of which have been kindly lent by the Institute for the purposes of this exhibition.

The exhibition will provide the first Australian opportunity to see the documentary style videos 'SIGHTINGS UK' and 'SIGHTINGS AUSTRALIA' which feature a range of people relating their encounters with Rosalind Brodsky (these include artist Susan Hiller, writer Andrew Renton, Elizabeth Macgregor, Angus Trumble, Anna Waldmann and 6 year old Alice). Also, new and as yet unheard in Australia, will be a collection of tracks by Brodsky's band 'Rosalind Brodsky and the Satellites of Lvov' including 'Knocking on Lenin's Door', 'Brighton Beach 2032 blues' and 'The Communist Manifesto (recorded live in New York)'.

    "Treister's work is an exuberant celebration of what the new media were supposed to be about ... It is garage hypermedia, it's shocking pink gothic letters jeering at the commercial world of e-design ... Rosalind Brodsky is a challenge to digital pretensions."

    Marek Kohn in The Independent on Sunday (UK)

    "Both weird and wired ... No Other Symptoms uses multimedia in the fullest sense of the word, immersing its viewer in an idiosyncratic artificiality in which fiction is mingled with fact, imagination with inventiveness."

    Michael Gibbs in Art Monthly (UK version)

'No Other Symptoms - Time Travelling with Rosalind Brodsky' a CD-ROM with 124 page colour hardback book published by Black Dog Publishing Ltd UK is available through DIGIMATTER at GREY MATTER for a special launch price of $50.

Gallery hours: Fri/Sat/Sun 12pm-6pm (or by appointment)

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