Close your eyes with holy dread
Publisher: Artspace
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Auckland, New Zealand
Language: eng
Number of pages: 62
ISBN-13: 9780994122568
Subjects: Modern Art; Exhibitions
Other titles: Shadow of the Dome of Pleasure
Description: The works in this exhibition bind poetic and filmic languages to construct dramatic narratives that consider writing, speech and gesture within moving image and its theatrical antecedents. In different tones and directions these video and film works address contemporary desire - most significantly the desires for identity, knowledge and communication and the complications that arise from these. The Shadow of the Dome of Pleasure brings together contemporary video work in an exhibition space designed and built to extrapolate and intensify the architectures and imaginaries of the cinema and the theatre. The exhibition space functions somewhere between a stage and a green room; a labyrinth and a sensorium. The works in this exhibition are sexually loaded, hysterical and existentially anguished, producing, en masse and in harmony with their setting, an immersive and exhausting world.
Notes: Artists: Juliet Carpenter, Jesse Darling, Alexander Laurie and Biljana Popovic, Agnieszka Polska, Ryan Trecartin, Andy Warhol, Akram Zaatari.

Texts by: Kim Gordon, Robin Hyde, Samuel Te Kani, Andrew Durbin, Evangeline Riddiford Graham, Jesse Darling, Holly Childs.

Limited edition of 500.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition The Shadow of the Dome of Pleasure at Artspace, September 4 - October 10, 2015; curated by Henry Davidson.