I did get to see ArtThrob’s editorial assistant Natasha Norman’s masters show, up for one night at the Michaelis Gallery. Her large scale linocuts are printed with shifting veils of colour viewed through grids, which hover between classic engravings and early television screens. Images are sourced from the movie Apocalyse Now and have something of the same hallucinogenic quality.
Natasha Norman in front of her work.I also couldn’t miss Paul Edmunds’ obssessive line drawings in graphite at the Stevenson gallery, and Penny Siopis’ brilliant video on the story of a nun who was attacked and killed in the Transkei, many years ago. Siopis writes scripts based on careful research and cuts and pastes found random home movie and other footage to create films which seem truer in spirit than a straight documentary could ever be.
But mainly I worked on the photoshoot we did in New York for my Other Voices Other Cities series. In the workshop to decide on a statement of what it means to New Yorkers to live where they do, the group came up with, I MEAN, WHERE ELSE ARE YOU GONNA GO? Such a perfect expression of New York attitude.
Detail from the Other Voices Other Cities: New York shootWe shot on a late afternoon on the silvery roof of an East Village squat, with the Empire State building floating in the background. I’m really happy with it.
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