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Tainted Vision, Corroded Memories 2009

Corroded Memories

18 March - 3 April 2009

Aaron Hull
Master of Arts-Research candidate
17 Screen Video Installation

Aaron Hull is sound artist, curator and video artist who has performed and exhibited in Australia and abroad. Taking inspiration from film sound tracks, industrial noise, the Australian landscape and malfunctioning audio devices, Aaron’s performances and installations vary from an intimate sonic landscape to an all out assault of noise and shattered glitch. Most recently he has become fixated on the idea of Corroded Memory.

An opening reception will be held on Thursday 19 March in the FCA Gallery, Building 25, University of Wollongong at 12.30pm. The reception is open to the public and free of charge. Light refreshments will be served.

Artist Statement: Aaron Hull

Memories blur and intersect combining to become one. Important or unimportant facts are forgotten or ignored. For better or worse we forget, and as a result our memory is a fractured landscape of interlaced images and feelings.

The human brain is not a computer data bank of dates, times, feelings and places that can be recollected perfectly at will. It is a stock of retained knowledge and experience, the knowledge or impression that somebody retains of a particular person, event, period, or subject.

Included in this exhibition are two video installation works that investigate the idea of Corroded Memory.

Tainted Vision is a 5 screen video work exploring the misrepresentation of the individual by governments, and marketing and advertising companies. The text “please insert your card” establishes a link to data generated by our buying habits, consumerism and the profiling of people in boxes leaving little room for variation.

Bleach is a 12 screen audio visual installation video that investigates the evaporation, disintegration, modification and combination of memories. The screens are stacked and related to the idea of building blocks of memory. Memory does not exist in isolation as a series of individual memories. It exists as a mass of interweaved related experiences that define our memories and to a certain degree our existence. The minimal use of repetitive text creates a relationship between each memory block. Whilst each block has its own variation of memory its relationship to its neighbour is not ignored

Both works employ a minimal, reduced subject matter which is a notable shift from previous video works.

FCA Gallery
Room 112, Building 25
Faculty of Creative Arts
University of Wollongong
Gallery Opening Hours: 9am-5pm, Monday to Friday