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Alex Kershaw

Country(activity based):
Australia
Genre:
Media Art

Profile

Alex Kershaw is a photographic and video artist based in Sydney Australia. He has exhibited extensively, both in Australia and internationally. Recent exhibitions include, One of Several Centres at Performance Space (Carriageworks), Sydney (2010) and 3 Films Made Between 2005 & 2009 - Alex Kershaw, Beaconsfield, London (2009).

About works / performance

Alex Kershaw uses video and photography to mediate intercultural exchange with people and communities from a specific place. In this process, everyday people become participants and collaborators in the production of the work. Quotidian rituals used to connect, to cope, and to acculturate, provide the subject matter for developing the choreography of people's individual performances.



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Comment

Kershaw uses the video camera is a way of thinking—negotiating the lived experience of participants with his artistic re-imagining of place. Rather than recording 'reality' as it is given or manufacturing fictions—Kershaw provokes an alternative reality that is then documented. As a result his stylistic approach plays between, performative, cinematic and documentary genres. In this process, people are re-embodied within their own surroundings, shifting their perspectives, revitalising their relationship to place and provoked to reconsider their own assumptions.
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