EXHIBITION: SCENES FROM PARAMOUNT MOUNTAIN
It’s all about loops, the ways in which, “Ideas are stolen,” or chains of events set off by something as small as a cough on a plane. In a world drowning in voraciously circulating images, “Parasitic logos” and celluloid golems that often out-last our own paltry, flesh-and-blood selves, it makes sense the focus here is specifically that of, “The cultural dominance of narrative cinema.” Scenes from Paramount Mountain calls itself an interactive sculptural video installation, which will eventually lead into a theatre show being staged at Melbourne’s Nextwave festival in February (with a Sydney test-run pencilled in for November). It’s a terrain well-trod by the creators William Mansfield and Eddie Sharp, the force behind the Imperial Panda Festival 2009’s smash-hit Mad Max Re-mix in which twinkletoes Mel is on a spoof-laden quest to join Miss Tina’s Bartertown Dance Academy. The film playing host this time is 1996’s Outbreak. The exhibition will feature a scale model of its opening scene, including a jungle, the interior of a plane and an urban nightscape. Through these reconstructed spaces runs a camera, projecting the scenes via wireless so you’ll be both above and at eye level to them. And eventually, in the show, you’ll witness one lonely woman enter a screenplay (Mooncops) of her own making as truth rapidly spirals into simulacra. Or so we think. And yes, it all sounds a little loopy. In a good way.
Aug 28-30, Serial Space, 33 Wellington St Chippendale, serialspace.org
