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Roaming Sweets
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Artists involved:
Anita Bacic + Natalie Woodlock
Roaming Sweets is a sweet meet between new digital technologies and the cult of the handmade. This exhibition combines old-world peepshows with the most recent wireless technologies to deliver a series of stop-motion animations to your mobile phone. Presented in a window box, each peepshow and corresponding animation uncovers a fragment of the invisible film and circus histories of Brisbane.
Made from cake, cardboard, icing and sweets, Roaming Sweets captures an enchanting, childlike world full of magic and marvel.
Opening: 6pm, Wednesday 16 August 2006
Raw Space Galleries
99 Melbourne St South Brisbane
Info: www.rawspace.org Phone 38448852
Subsidised drinks available from Raw Space Cafe
Sponsored by Raw Space Galleries
Artists' Statement
Roaming Sweets is series of mobile phone stop-motion animations that are delivered as episodes to participants at Raw Space Galleries.
Three films make up the series. The content of the episodes reference early film history in Australia and the links between film and circus in these years. In addition to their content the films are linked by their handmade aesthetic. Crochet, icing, sweets, cake and cardboard are the materials used in each animation. Luli the doll stars in two of the episodes.
When film first appeared, it was a novelty. The first film shown in Australia was seen through a kinetoscope – a box with a peephole that allowed viewers to look through and see moving pictures. The first moving pictures Australian audiences saw through these lenses were of circus and vaudeville acts touring New Jersey, USA. In the 1890s these crossovers between film and circus were to continue. Films were seen at music halls and vaudeville and circus shows as a part of a larger program. There were as yet no cinemas and few ‘film only’ screenings.
Roaming Sweets is a sweet meet between new digital technologies and the cult of the handmade. Like the first spools of film seen by Australian audiences Roaming Sweets captures an enchanting, childlike world full of magic and marvel. These films are viewed on a tiny mobile phone screen very similar in size to the unenlarged 35mm film seen through the Kinetoscope.
Mobile phone videos are the lowest end of digital movie making. They are the Super 8 of the digital world – low-tech, designed for home video making and personal use.
Episode synopses:
Episode 1 Walled Garden.
Luli strolls in an iced walled garden followed by dancing flowers .
Episode 2 Sweet Suite.
Sweets to make a suite! And to make any small girl’s eyes shine. The biscuit furniture in this animation is not only iced; it can move around on its own.
Episode 3 Sweet Seat.
Luli performs a daring feat of skill and marvel.
Natalie Woodlock
Natalie Woodlock (aka The Cake Lady) is an art-maker, cake-baker and animator. She creates and exhibits screen, new media and installation-based work. Natalie has exhibited works at RMIT gallery, Melbourne; 2004 and 2006 Next Wave Festivals; Raw Space galleries as part of the Arc Brisbane Biennale, the d>Art 2006 Festival and as part of Directors Lounge 2006, Berlin.
Anita Bacic
Anita creates both digital and non-digital works and has recently begun working with mobile phones. She has exhibited works in Electrofringe New Media Arts Festival 2005, Australia; File Electronic Language International Festival 2004, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Nextwave Festival 2004, Melbourne, Australia; 14th Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival 2003, Sao Paulo, Brazil; and the 16th Stuttgarter Filmwinter 2003, Stuttgart, Germany.
Anita Bacic + Natalie Woodlock
Roaming Sweets is a sweet meet between new digital technologies and the cult of the handmade. This exhibition combines old-world peepshows with the most recent wireless technologies to deliver a series of stop-motion animations to your mobile phone. Presented in a window box, each peepshow and corresponding animation uncovers a fragment of the invisible film and circus histories of Brisbane.
Made from cake, cardboard, icing and sweets, Roaming Sweets captures an enchanting, childlike world full of magic and marvel.
Opening: 6pm, Wednesday 16 August 2006
Raw Space Galleries
99 Melbourne St South Brisbane
Info: www.rawspace.org Phone 38448852
Subsidised drinks available from Raw Space Cafe
Sponsored by Raw Space Galleries
Artists' Statement
Roaming Sweets is series of mobile phone stop-motion animations that are delivered as episodes to participants at Raw Space Galleries.
Three films make up the series. The content of the episodes reference early film history in Australia and the links between film and circus in these years. In addition to their content the films are linked by their handmade aesthetic. Crochet, icing, sweets, cake and cardboard are the materials used in each animation. Luli the doll stars in two of the episodes.
When film first appeared, it was a novelty. The first film shown in Australia was seen through a kinetoscope – a box with a peephole that allowed viewers to look through and see moving pictures. The first moving pictures Australian audiences saw through these lenses were of circus and vaudeville acts touring New Jersey, USA. In the 1890s these crossovers between film and circus were to continue. Films were seen at music halls and vaudeville and circus shows as a part of a larger program. There were as yet no cinemas and few ‘film only’ screenings.
Roaming Sweets is a sweet meet between new digital technologies and the cult of the handmade. Like the first spools of film seen by Australian audiences Roaming Sweets captures an enchanting, childlike world full of magic and marvel. These films are viewed on a tiny mobile phone screen very similar in size to the unenlarged 35mm film seen through the Kinetoscope.
Mobile phone videos are the lowest end of digital movie making. They are the Super 8 of the digital world – low-tech, designed for home video making and personal use.
Episode synopses:
Episode 1 Walled Garden.
Luli strolls in an iced walled garden followed by dancing flowers .
Episode 2 Sweet Suite.
Sweets to make a suite! And to make any small girl’s eyes shine. The biscuit furniture in this animation is not only iced; it can move around on its own.
Episode 3 Sweet Seat.
Luli performs a daring feat of skill and marvel.
Natalie Woodlock
Natalie Woodlock (aka The Cake Lady) is an art-maker, cake-baker and animator. She creates and exhibits screen, new media and installation-based work. Natalie has exhibited works at RMIT gallery, Melbourne; 2004 and 2006 Next Wave Festivals; Raw Space galleries as part of the Arc Brisbane Biennale, the d>Art 2006 Festival and as part of Directors Lounge 2006, Berlin.
Anita Bacic
Anita creates both digital and non-digital works and has recently begun working with mobile phones. She has exhibited works in Electrofringe New Media Arts Festival 2005, Australia; File Electronic Language International Festival 2004, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Nextwave Festival 2004, Melbourne, Australia; 14th Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival 2003, Sao Paulo, Brazil; and the 16th Stuttgarter Filmwinter 2003, Stuttgart, Germany.