'Stock Exchange', 'Trapeze', 'St. Kilda Rd' (3 video works exhibited in Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon)

BACKGROUND Conland's curatorial objective of exploring ideas of adventure and 'risk' in art today became the question: How do we utilise adventure and what level of risk do we allow for? CONTRIBUTION Kosloff's research centres on how movement, gesture and abstraction translate into significance. "Like Mike Parr's rolling camera, Kosloff also films as if the camera were a moving figure" (John Hurrell Eye Contact Mar 2010). For her site-specific video installations with Super 8 as a medium for all 3 works Kosloff exploits its capacity for articulating a particular pace and movement in monochrome removing the specificity of time and place ("You wonder if these people are still alive now, but of course probably they are, very much so" Hurrell. She instead draws attention to how the individual agency is physically expressed in relation to architecture. Stock Exchange, 1998, presents a carefully framed simple panning shot of the exterior horizontal and vertical planes of Melbourne's stock exchange building. Free from grounded bodies and the orienting tasks of vision, the lens provides a new appraisal of what is moving in front of us. In Trapeze, 2009, and St. Kilda Road, 2010, the culture of the city's spectacle is captured in short clips of urban gymnasts. In these city contexts, we see a select social unfolding that pairs the discipline of training (or ritualised movement) with the poetics of the human body. Candid footage of adventure and risk-taking as everyday combines cultural interest in the public arena with perceptions of awkwardness and control, individualism and standardisation.'They reveal a critical yet empathetic awareness of our equally performing selves to an audience in a temporal zone other than our own' (Andy Thomson,catalogue essay).SIGNIFICANCE The triennial showcased 28 artists from 17 countries, including Johanna Billing (Sweden),Sharon Hayes (US),Tino Seghal (UK/Germany),Zheng Bo (China) and Walid Sadek (Lebanon) and attracted 22,616 visitors.