Still from Take Me There : Bring Me Back by Nancy Mauro-Flude

Remote brings together artworks by five artists that connect the local and
global through digital media – Susan Collins (UK), Pete Gomes (UK), Derek
Hart (UK/Tas), Nancy Mauro-Flude (Tas/Netherlands) and Martin Walch (Tas).
These artists explore their relation to the real world and their works demon-
strate how that transaction might be constituted today when any firm sense
of presence (real space) and immediacy (real time) is exacerbated by
technologies that problemmatize notions of nearness and remoteness, such
as the televisual, tele-communications and global positioning systems.
What is a common point of departure for all is a confounded sense of place
and proximity.

Remote brings together artworks by five artists that connect the local and
global through digital media – Susan Collins (UK), Pete Gomes (UK), Derek
Hart (UK/Tas), Nancy Mauro-Flude (Tas/Netherlands) and Martin Walch (Tas).
Curatorial Design by
Vince Dziekan

Inventory ///////////////////////////////
Susan Collins, Glenlandia
Pete Gomes, Littoral Map (Tasmania)
Martin Walch,
Losing the Plot – XYZ/T v15-220206
Derek Hart, Maravilha do Rio de Janeiro
Nancy Mauro-Flude,
Take me There: Bring me Back
Locative Media //////////////////////////
Vince Dziekan, V. Travels In The Netherworld
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The resulting inventory includes screen and projection-based moving image
work, webcast transmissions, site-specific interventions and locative media.
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Curated by Vince Dziekan (Monash University, Melbourne), the exhibition’s
distinctive scenography is characterised by its distribution across the
Plimsoll Gallery and its surrounding environment. This incorporation of other
locales in the immediate proximity of the Centre for the Arts into the overall
sweep of the ‘expanded’ exhibition results in the transformation of the
exhibition from being experienced as an installation into something more
likened to an itinerary.
This is further supported by the addition of a locative media artwork by the
artist/curator created specifically to direct and focus the exploration of this
broader ‘ecology’ of spaces. The work promotes the mobility and agency of
the viewer by linking distributed media contents to a series of locational
markers that situate this narrative across the ‘in-between’ spaces of the
exhibition.
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The exhibition experience is supplemented and extended by an exhibition
website, designed by Superbia. Extensive information about the artists and
inventory is available, plus descriptions regarding the exhibition’s scenogra-
phy and locative media aspects. Two essays have been commissioned for the
online catalogue: a curator’s essay by Vince Dziekan and a contributor’s
essay by Scot Cotterell (Tas).