1 million years 21 March 2014 - 19 April 2014 Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

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Tags: video, grotto, child, daughter, mother, Blue Mountains, death, shroud, cloth, fabric
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Title
1 million years
Date
21 March 2014 - 19 April 2014
Place
Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
Description

1 million years saw the return of another former Darwin-based artist to NCCA, with NSW-based Hayley West employing sculpture and video-based performance to address persistent themes in her work relating to the 'vestigial’: the embodiment of memory, archive and grief.

NCCA’s Screen Room became a 'makeshift temple’ with a video work in which West performs a series of acts in a prehistoric-like 'grotto’ setting in the Blue Mountains where she resides. These acts broadly suggest family histories, bereavement and the vestigial. 'By contextualising the vestigial into a contemporary art framework’, states West, 'there is an attempt to alleviate grief, relax impending emotional upheavals, or assist in the recovery of surpressed or avoided emotions’.

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video
grotto
child
daughter
mother
Blue Mountains
death
shroud
cloth
fabric
Website
http://www.nccart.com.au/index.php/exhibition-program/archived-exhibitions/archived-exhibitions-2014?start=15

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