Going Nowhere

Daniel Mudie Cunningham and Stephen Allkins. Boytown, 2012. HD single channel video, colour, 16:9, 5:20 minutes. Commissioned by Campbelltown Arts Centre. Production still: Susannah Wimberley.

Going Nowhere
Daniel Mudie Cunningham and Stephen Allkins, Christopher Köller and Hannah Raisin
Curated by Simone Hine and Kyle Weise

Presented as part of the Boxcopy Weekender Series, Politics and Experience

Boxcopy, 15-17 March 2013

Going Nowhere brings together video work by Daniel Mudie Cunningham and Stephen Allkins, Christopher Köller and Hannah Raisin. Each work uses the possibilities of the moving image to playfully explore the rhythms of popular culture, performance art and industrialisation. Looping and lingering, these videos transform quotidian temporalities. Through the medium of video, the everyday experiences of sexuality and work, daydreams and aspirations, which occupy the works, are pushed in unexpected directions. This process accentuates the potential political impact of these innocent moments, yet the visceral response each work invites dismantles the idea of a cool critical distance between the artworks and the rhythms they both interrogate and revel in.

The exhibition catalogue, with an essay by Simone Hine and Kyle Weise, is available a pdf. The catalogue essay can also be read online

Christopher Köller, Kujukuri, 2 channel video, 5 mins. 2007, From the series Floating Worlds, 2007. Installation View. Going Nowhere, Boxcopy, 2013.

Installation View. Going Nowhere, Boxcopy, 2013. Left to Right: Daniel Mudie Cunningham and Stephen Allkins Boytown, 2012, HD single channel video, colour, 16:9, 5:20 minutes. Commissioned by Campbelltown Arts Centre; Hannah Raisin, Necklace #2, 2011. HD single channel video, colour, 16:9, 5:13 minutes.