starrs and cmielewski

Not So Happy Trails is the name of our new sound and video installation commissioned by the New Landscape Institute and exhibited at the Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW

still from Not So Happy Trails

The work is part of The Long Paddock project, curated by Joni Taylor and featuring contemporary artistic responses to the vast network of Australia’s travelling stock routes and reserves. Sound design is by Panos Couros.

Exhibition Launch: Friday 5 May, 6pm-8pm
Exhibition Dates: Saturday 6 May - Sunday 16 July, 2017
Artist Talks: Saturday 6 May, 11am-2pm

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Our media art installation and the earth sighed was featured in Performing Climates – an arts program designed and curated for the public by Arts House for the 2016 Performance Studies International (PSi) Conference.
The exhibition opened 6th July at Arts House in Melbourne.

and the earth sighed from Josephine Starrs

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Dancing with Drones video installation featuring dancer Alison Plevey performing live is featured in Performance Space’s Liveworks Festival Carriageworks Sydney 22 - 25 October 2015.

Hunting Ground: Dancing with Drones
Article by Ann Finegan in Runway Australian Experimental Art Magazine, issue #28 September 2015

Dancing with Drones video installation featuring dancer Alison Plevey showed in ISEA2015, Vancouver, Canada 14-20th August.

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Cementa_15 was held in kandos, NSW April 9-12th April 2015.
Elemental Square is a 2 channel video work installed in Kandos Projects shopfront window. A land art sculpture representing the four elements was constructed from natural material at Swampy, a local site. Using a drone launched from Stockyard Point the camera sweeps down the escarpment to capture the immolation of the sculpture.

Elemental Square

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We had some artwork in Same River Twice, a group exhibition at the Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide and the Murray Bridge Regional Gallery
5 December 2015 until 7th February 2015
Our large print a living body was subsequently acquired by Murray Bridge Regional Gallery to be part of their collection.

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Dancing with Drones our outdoor video and live performance work was part of Siteworks Bundanon September 2014

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We have received an OZCO, Creative Australia - New Art (Creative Development) grant to develop an immersive art installation that re-imagines the relationship between nature and culture

Installation Prototype 2014 from Josephine Starrs on Vimeo.

Working with Synergy Positioning Systems and Slovenian artist Marko Peljhan’s c-astral UAV/drone system to photograph and map landscape images.

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In December 2013 we spent two weeks as artists in resident at Bundanon Art Centre, NSW. Collaborating with dancer Alison Plevey we made this video Drone Dance.

DroneDance : starrs & cmielewski 2014

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We created a new artwork for the Maldives Pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale opening on October 15th at the Gervasuti Foundation, Curated by Camilla Boemio.
maldives pavilion website

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Our installation, chapel of rubber has been selected as a finalist for the Blake Prize 2013. The exhibition opened at the new COFA gallery on October 17th.
view a section of the video below

chapel of rubber: starrs & cmielewski

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In September 2013 we spent two weeks as artists in residency at the Australian Museum’s Lizard Island Research Station on the Great Barrier Reef

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Sydney Underground Film Festival screened our short video epicormic in September, 2013

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Our solo exhibition at Cross Art Projects in Sydney ran from May 23rd - June 30th 2013, with an opening an artist talk at the gallery on June 1st at 3pm. Four large prints and 2 videos from Incompatible Elements body of work were on show.

The exhibition was also part of ISEA2013, Sydney
ISEA2013

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We exhibited a new installation, chapel of rubber in the arts festival, Cementa, in Kandos, NSW February 1-4, 2013

lightbox image of the Kandos burnout track

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Our User Unfriendly Interface CD Rom from 1996 has been resurrected and shown in DVD Dead Drop, Museum of the Moving Image, New York 2012
Here is a link to a video run through of the work

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In 2012, Nature In The Dark, a project organised by La Trobe Uni and Victoria Parks & Wildlife commissioned us to create a short video, Epicormic that was screened with other artists works at Federation Square Big Screen, Melbourne 23rd November to 22nd December 2012. The project launch was at North Melbourne Town Hall 6pm 21st November.

still from Epicormic

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In September 2012 we did an artist residency at Bundanon culminating in showing our work at Siteworks 2012

The Verdant Shed (stop motion animation projection piece at Bundanon)

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Incompatible Elements at the Canberra Contemporary Art Space from Friday 25th May until Saturday 23rd June 2012

still from incompatible elements

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Incompatible Elements showed in Taipei, Taiwan at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in the Wonderland exhibition of new Australian art, curated by Antoanetta Ivanova, 2012.

watch interview with starrs & cmielewski in Taipei here

RealTime Arts
Review by Janine Randerson of Incompatible Elements at the Auckland Arts Festival, NZ, March 2011.

EyeContact
Review by John Hurrell of Incompatible Elements at the Auckland Arts Festival, NZ, March 2011.

Artradar Interview
Interview with Josephine for Art Radar Asia about our work.

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Our video and sound installation, Waterways showed in a group exhibition at the SFAC gallery in San Francisco from the 28th April, 2011.
The exhibition is called Urbanition and is a sister city project between Sydney and San Francisco. Josephine gave an artist talk with Chris Fox at the gallery in San Francisco on Friday 29th April.
Urbanition also showed at Carriageworks, Sydney in August/September, 2011.

urbanition website

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Our media art installation, Incompatible Elements showed at at MIC | Toi Rerehiko as part of the Auckland Arts Festival in March 2011 and most recently in Seoul, Korea as part of the Sydney and Sookmyung exhibition, November 2011.

In Incompatible Elements, environments and ecologies that are hanging in the balance; from the Ganges Delta to the Coorong in SA, are rendered as aerial landscapes that sweep slowly by. Embedded in these scapes are texts that emerge from the manipulation of pixels representing earth and water – and so Starrs & Cmielewski engage in kind of digital geochemistry, terraforming new waterways and barren patches of sand that tell stories in winding, cursive script.
Bec Dean, catalogue essay.

Acknowledgements: Alex Davies (sound); Australia Council for the Arts (Visual Arts Board)

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We exhibited artwork in Encoded, an exhibition of Australian artists curated by Novamedia for Art Taipei 2010 in Taiwan. Josephine also gave a presentation about our work at the Art Taipei Forum.

Encoded exhibition, Art Taipei 2010

large print: and the river was dust

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Our short video a.k.a. was included in Experimenta Media Art Biennial Utopia Now at Carriageworks, Sydney in September-October 2010 and at MONA in Tasmania from August 5th 2011

stills from a.k.a.

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