FOUR MARDI GRAS FESTIVAL EXHIBITION OPENINGS
THURSDAY 5 FEBRUARY at 6PM
Exhibitions run until 28 Feburary 1998

at ARTSPACE
43-51 COWPER WHARF ROAD
WOOLLOOMOOLOO NSW 2011
[Australia]

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crosSeXXXamination
Virginia Barratt & Beth Stryker

http://www.artspace.org.au/XXX or http://203.35.148.178/XXX

Artspace artist-in-residence Beth Stryker from New York and artist
Virginia Barratt present a collaborative, cross-circuited webspace and
site-specific installation which interrogates the pathologisation of
deviant desires.

Specimen
Michele Barker & Anna Munster

What has become of the specimen in a digital epoch, where discrete
objects are no longer examined under the lens nor displayed publicly in
the classificatory regime of the museum? This dissolution of the
conditions under which material bodies can be perceived and known gives
way to the computer and monitor as both generator and display case for
mutating codes and fragmented, simulated organisms.

She's No Serial Killer
Jasmine Hirst

"In May 1992 I saw a photograph of Aileen Wuornos in the newspaper. She
had just received four more death sentences for the murder of seven men.
Aileen claimed that the men, who had picked her up while she was working
as a prostitute on the highways of Florida, had raped or attempted to
rape her. The media labelled her 'the first female serial killer.' I
wrote to her. We have been corresponding ever since."

QZP 2
Kaye Shumack

A photo-based installation which has been developed as part of the
QueerZone Project exploring issues of community and the queerness of
Sydney life. These works confound the distinction between the real and
the imaginary through ambiguous image narratives which conflate the
mundane everyday, the ominous underworld and the fantastic hyper-real.

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