Between the Viaducts - each week at Blindside a new work will be screened in Gallery 2

Between the Viaducts is a group show that slips between the cracks of our consciousness and into dreams. Dreaming can take us away from the present; towards or away from harm; can confuse or clarify; and take us deeper into ourselves or closer to others. These works by Deborah White, Daniela Zorba and A.P. Morton all touch upon dreaming and its various utopian, philosophical, psychological, playful and political functions.

Wed 20 - Sat 23 July - Deborah White

Everlasting Happiness, 2022. Video, 10’55”. Director Deborah White. Sound Jamie Coghill.

For Everlasting Happiness (2022), anarchist philosophy provides a stepping-stone to explore the utopian idea of love as a political concept— with an overarching theme of love of the most distant. This is not a sentimental notion but a robust love with a revolutionary power. The performance-based video depicts a tongue-in-cheek fantasy of mystical anarchists battling against the facade of the post-truth world. Viewing the actions of love as a deployment of force, this work intertwines supernatural wonder with the spectacle of war. Featuring fictitious characters that defy the rational world, the playful and vibrant video is infused with flower power and animal warriors that open the heart to hope and joy. The fantasy and self-deprecating humour serve to shift perspective and disrupt conditioned patterns of thinking. Inspired by the transformative power of love, the work envisions a battle for a utopian non-place of the imagination.

Deborah White is a Melbourne-based artist who works across performance-based video, photography and mixed media installations. In 2015, she completed her MFA at Monash University. Deborah has exhibited her work in numerous national and international exhibitions, screenings and festivals. She has had solo exhibitions at Bundoora Homestead (2016) and Queensland Centre for Photography (2011). Collaborative projects have been shown at Transmediale in Berlin (2009) and her videos have also been screened at Berlin International Directors Lounge (2010), Adelaide Festival Centre (2018) and Counihan Gallery (2018).
White has also participated in several artist residencies, such as Bayside City Council’s Billilla Program (2010) and Mornington Peninsula Shire’s Police Point Artist-in-Residence (2019). She has been a finalist in the Blake Prize (2016) and Darebin Art Prize (2017) and a recipient of the Cancer Council of Victoria Art Awards (2007), Linden Postcard Prize (2004) and Erotica: National Acquisition Prize (2010).

Wed 27 - Sat 30 July - Daniela Zorba

μιααπλήζωή (a simple life), 2022. Video, 18’. Director Daniela Zorba

A group of characters meets one day, sharing feelings about the state of the world and humanity, seeking common space and ways to have fun in the moment. Μιαομάδαχαρακτήρωνκάνειπαρέαμιαμέραμοιράζονταςσυναισθήματαγιατηνκατάστασητουκόσμουκαιτηςανθρωπότητας, ψάχνονταςκοινόχώροκαιτρόπουςγιαναδιασκεδάσειαυτήτηστιγμή.

Daniela Zorba is a film director artist and educator involved in collective poetics through abstractions of the cinematic imagination. Her experimental works make connections with ideas around value and experiential language making. She has studied and taught media studies at universities and participates variously in arts activist workshops, journals, residencies, community schools, curatorial projects.ing experimental audio production techniques, the work mirrors the way memories can become fragmented and opaque, and their sources unclear. The visual element of the work is influenced by the heavily saturated, hyperreal and recurrent nature of dreaming, another source of confused and obscured internal imagery.

Wed 3 - Sat 6 Aug - A.P. Morton/Former Artist

A vision of a memory of a dream, 2022. Video, 7’. Director A. P. Morton/Former Artist

A vision of a memory of a dream is a video artwork exploring the distorted nature of dreams and memory recall. Using experimental audio production techniques, the work mirrors the way memories can become fragmented and opaque, and their sources unclear. The visual element of the work is influenced by the heavily saturated, hyperreal and recurrent nature of dreaming, another source of confused and obscured internal imagery. A.P. Morton is from Narrm (Melbourne), where he does not work in the arts. A.P. Morton sometimes makes videos and experimental music, releasing the latter under the name Former Artist.