Several performance based video works

RESEARCH BACKGROUND Curated by Margaret Moore, 'Take Five' featured 3 video and performance artists, Elise/Jürgen, Acquittal Report and Redfern, for the Visual Arts programs of the 2010 Perth International Arts Festival. This selection of work by Redfern illustrates his evolving research into performance, performativity and video. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION Redfern addresses evolving theories of subjectivity; the video serves as an accomplice in the performative process, not only to document, but also to place the viewer within screen space. His work operates in the gap between self-portraiture, fiction and document to draw audience attention to the artifice of screen language. 'Often using humour and a variety of self-reflexive devices to complicate the relationship between artist, representation and viewer, in this sense the technology of video is both subject and medium for his work, which gives critical expression to the complexity of everyday screen-mediated experience. Literalised through these encounters with screen technology, his practice addresses the fragility, mutability and multiplicity of contemporary identity.' (Margaret Moore, Perth International Festival Program). The screen has come to occupy much of our time and thus our minds. Arguably it acts as agent in the confusion and destabilisation of scripts for the performed entities we have come to understand ourselves to be. Redfern's later works illustrate his evolving research through a greater emphasis on the relationship between site and subject which has developed as he investigates broader geo-cultural influences on the construction of identity. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE Redfern's videos were screened on a recently installed City of Perth Northbridge Piazza Screen, therefore marking the presentation of Redfern's videos in this new outdoor screening space as an elastic public art extension of the artist's video research.

研究背景 由玛格丽特·摩尔（Margaret Moore）策划的《Take Five》项目，为2010年珀斯国际艺术节（Perth International Arts Festival）的视觉艺术单元呈现了三位视频与行为艺术家——Elise/Jürgen、Acquittal Report及Redfern的作品。本次选取的Redfern作品，展现了他在行为艺术、展演性（performativity）及视频领域不断演进的研究轨迹。

研究贡献 Redfern探讨了主体性（subjectivity）理论的演进；视频在展演过程中扮演着协作者的角色——不仅用于记录，更将观者置于屏幕空间之内。他的作品游走于自画像、虚构与纪实的边界之间，引导观众关注屏幕语言的人为建构性。“其作品常运用幽默与多种自反性手法，复杂化艺术家、再现形式与观者之间的关系；从这个意义上，视频技术既是其创作的主题，亦是媒介，为日常屏幕介导体验的复杂性赋予了批判性表达。通过与屏幕技术的这些碰撞，他的实践直面当代身份的脆弱性、易变性与多元性。”（玛格丽特·摩尔，珀斯国际艺术节节目册）。屏幕已占据我们大量的时间与思绪。可以说，它是导致我们所认知的自我展演实体之脚本陷入混乱与不稳定的动因。Redfern后期作品通过更强调场域与主体的关系，展现了其不断演进的研究——这一关系的深化源于他对身份建构所受更广泛地缘文化影响的探究。

研究意义 Redfern的视频作品在珀斯市新安装的北桥广场屏幕（City of Perth Northbridge Piazza Screen）上展映，这标志着其视频作品在这一新户外放映空间的呈现，成为其视频研究的弹性公共艺术延伸。