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| From the exhibition POSTER BOY, which featured video, object and photographic images. John Lyall in this body of work takes us on a trip around the South Island. Photographic images taken by him or documenting him in performance both here and overseas have been re-presented by Lyall as posters. Each poster was installed in a specific location. Only one poster per site, the text of which connects the image to the locale. Posters generally advertise an event and are often kept as a memento. Here there was no event to attend, the event was the act of placement and the dating of it. A video recorded the action and then the poster was removed. Lyall described the locations as “iconic quirky places” and many were referenced in his earlier body of work and publication “Putting our Town on the Map” but now he says, “just for a minute there is a confusion of time and place…” Claudia Bell noted in her exhibition essay, “This project is commentary on our often scant knowledge of our own nation’s geography. It is also a game of geographic significance and insignificance in the popular imagination.” For more information go to the Exhibition Page. E-mail for further information |
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