Bookmark: Shaun Gladwell
By the contributing artist
For ArtAsiaPacific's Bookmark this week, video artist Shaun Gladwell, Australia’s representative at the 2009 Venice Biennale, shares some of his online sources of inspiration and intrigue.
Gladwell’s work has often mined the poetry of street cultures within the syntax of video; slow motion scenes of skateboard tricks, capoera or breakdancers and grafitti performances are recognizable motifs. His recent solo show “Riding with Death: Redux” featured Midnight Traceur (2011), a 23-minute video of a parkour practitioner bouncing and spinning across the city’s vertical surfaces at night, shown on a small screen in a shipping container set in the gallery space. Also in 2011 he was commissioned to develop a new series of works especially for the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne. These focused on mirror images and duality, and culminated in the midyear exhibition “Stereo Sequences.”
