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Carnivale Collaborata

Held at the Woodford Folk Festival 2008/09, the exhibition event drew from Bakhtin’s idea of Carnivale, and brought together a range of visual art expressions in a total event that celebrated chaos, anarchy and debate. Continue reading

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Figuring Landscapes

This curatorial collaboration brought together short moving image works by fifteen artists from Australia and fifteen artists from the UK in a screening exhibition that examined changing approaches to landscape in new media. The exhibition toured Australia and the UK (nine venues) where it was launched at the Tate Modern. Continue reading

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Tiny Little Wonderful Worlds

Tiny Little Wonderful Worlds was curated by Pat Hoffie and featured artists Zoe Porter, Abe Garcia, Dacchi Dang, Jennifer Herd, Madeleine Kelly, Gordon Hookey and Arryn Snowball. Continue reading

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Quarantine

Featured as part of the Queensland Artworkers Alliance’s 2009 arc Biennial, this three person site specific exhibition curated by Pat Hoffie was installed in the old quarantine station at ort Lytton and drew together the work of three artists: Eric Rossi, Zoe Porter and David Spooner. Continue reading

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Carnivale Extremis: Pat Hoffie (with collaborators)

Designed as a site-specific work to accompany the Carnivale Collaborata series of exhibitions and workshops, this work drew from medieval imagery and images of the monstrous in a moving assemblage that reflected the robust insurrection of the carnivale ethos. Continue reading

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Madame Illuminata Crack’s Phantasmagorical Invention for an Ecologically Sustainable Future: Pat Hoffie

This kinetic sculptural installation by Pat Hoffie was installed at the University of Queensland Art Gallery and Museum (UAM) in 2008. Continue reading

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fugue for submerged memories

fugue for submerged memories is a kinetic sculptural installation by Pat Hoffie (collaborating with Stefan Purcell) that was set in a small lake at the Woodford Folk Festival in 2009/10. It comprised of two upright pianos that played their own tune, 36 violin bows, two violins, a lounge chair and a water pump. Continue reading

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Harvester for Disappearing Dreams of Wildness

The interactive kinetic sculpture Harvester for Disappearing Dreams of Wildness by Pat Hoffie (collaborating with Stefan Purcell) was made for a sculpture and installation festival in Yokohama, Japan in 2009. Continue reading

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Scope of Hope: A World Music Concert

For many years East Timor has been associated with bad news, but times are changing. Pride in this still very new nation is starting to be built, not least in the area of culture.

An exciting development is the beginning of a creative industry in East Timor. Griffith University Queensland College of Art is playing an important role in this with support from the Commonwealth Government’s AusAID program. For the last eighteen months, researchers have been working in East Timor compiling an archive of cultural resources. Continue reading

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The Wrong Crowd: Debra Beattie

“The Wrong Crowd: Inside the Family, Outside the Law” is a public history recounted through the prism of a “bildungsroman” narrative. Theoretical issues emerged around the nature of the documentary form and its inherent truth-claim as the work traversed intersections between documentary evidence, history in the public domain and personal memory on the internet. Continue reading

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