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

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

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

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Vivarium | Video still

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Vivarium | Video still

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

Title: Vivarium
Year: 2007
Medium: Video Installation
Exhibited: a.o. at Artspace Visual Arts Centre, Sydney Australia
Duration: 12:56 minutes
Size: Space 8,5 x 10 x 4 m. Object 55 x 110 x 62 cm. Projection 38 x 68 cm.
Materials: Video (PAL 16:9), Audio (Surround 5.1), wood, glass, steel.

The video installation Vivarium is the result of a three-month artist in residence at Artspace Visual Arts Centre in Sydney Australia. Inspired by the expanding city within the vast landscape that surrounds it, the work addresses the ambivalent relationship between the two by depicting a day in the life of a young female botanist.

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