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Vivarium (2007) Exhibition view at Artspace Visual Arts Centre, Sydney Australia

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Vivarium (2007) Exhibition view at Smart, Amsterdam

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Vivarium (2007) Exhibition view at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam

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Vivarium (2007) Video still

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Vivarium | Exhibition view at Artspace Visual Arts Centre, Sydney Australia

Vivarium (2007)
Video Installation 12'56"
HD Video transferred to DVD, surround sound
Variable size, cabinet 110 x 55 x 62 cm

The video installation Vivarium is the result of a three-month artist in residence at Artspace Visual Arts Centre in Sydney Australia. It consists of a video projector on a tripod projecting images on a projection screen that seems to float in the middle of a glass cabinet made of MDF and two glass panes.
The installation questions the relationship between the life in the city, the city itself and the surrounding landscape. It shows a young female botanist working in the tropical greenhouses in the heart of the city. The parallel between the closed-in condition of the greenhouse and the city being completely surrounded by impenetrable wilderness is an important element in this work.

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Listen to the interview with Sean O'Brien on the installation: http://arttalk.podomatic.com/entry/2007-07-09T19_05_35-07_00
And Dougal Philips's writing http://www.roderickhietbrink.nl/text/column1-vivarium/

This work has been made possible with the kind support of the Botanic Gardens Trust: http://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au