Video Art Therapy
Program, P.1958
- Identifier
- P.1958
- Category
- Visual Arts
- Date
- May 18, 2007
- Description
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Video Art Therapy - Award winning Victoria videomaker Brian MacDonald will premiere Video Art
Therapy #1: journey to a distant planet at Open Space on Friday evening, May 18 at 8pm.
Video Art Therapy #1: journey to a distant planet is the first in a series of videos that aspires to make video art a useful commodity by providing therapeutic benefits for the viewer. A reassuring voice will help those who wish to escape depression or anxiety by guiding them on a fantastic virtual journey to an unexplored planet. Images of pretty lights, magic tricks, and ingenious sculptures are set to soothing music to facilitate relaxation and enable a temporary escape from a stressful world. Featuring sculptures by Aston Coles, Scott Evans, Emi Honda and Jordan McKenzie. Video art by Tor Jørgen van Eijk with music by Bryce Janssens and voice by Kate Lackey.
Brian MacDonald has developed his own unique style since the early 2000s, a style that reflects his fondness for narrative and interest in the relationships between intimacy, sexuality and solitude.
To date, he has made 16 videos, most of them short works in which he observes human behaviour and emotions. With great sensuality he films bodies and faces, ironically exposing the fragility of situations that can turn tragic. His two most recent videos, both medium-length, are formally more ambitious, reflecting a mastery of editing, a profound knowledge of cinema, and an avid interest in the atmosphere of science-fiction films.1