Skin Freak

My video work 'Skin Freak' was selected by the curators of Melbourne Now to appear in a satellite event in association with Channels video art festival at a screening at The Rooftop cinema in Melbourne called Rooftop Transmissions. Melbourne Now was a widely seen and critically acclaimed contemporary art event /exhibition curated by the NGV. The unusual context for the screening of the work extended the notion of how we engage in video art outside of the normal and standard context of the gallery, institution to the site specific location of an outdoor cinema space. The work explored lateral ways in how we can consider screen space as an extension of the human body in a unique and original way. The video work was a component of the work 'Some Thing' and was funded by Australia Council Inter-arts Office. The aim of work was to present video and the video screen in particular as an extension and outgrowth of the human body, the screen as biological material. There remains an integral link between the screen and the body. The work seeks to explore in a highly original way this close and intimate relationship of the 'screen body'. The work established new knowledge in how the human body can be conceptualised as an extension of the contemporary media sphere. In addition the work saw the early development of an idea of the 'screen body' which was later realised in a major new work The Screen of Flesh. The significance of this research is that it makes explicit the integral relationship we have with the screen, the history of Hollywood is the history of the human body, so intimate our relationship to the screen the screen becomes a projection of our desires, obsessions and perversions.