Artist Statement

Anne Landa Award for Video and New Media Arts 2013. 

Humour is also an important aspect of Eternal situation, which was filmed on site at the Art Gallery of NSW. A stream of visitors to the gallery pass in front of Kosloff’s camera as they interact with paintings and sculptures in the 19th-century and Old Masters galleries. Set to Whitney Huston’s I have nothing (without you), the artworks become almost anthropomorphised as visitors snap photos or nearly walk into sculptures as they focus more on their mobile phones than on their immediate surrounds. The work forms an amusing, and also a little bit sad, insight into contemporary art viewing behaviours. [source: Kathleen Linn, https://www.artshub.com.au] https://laresakosloff.com/Eternal-situation-2013

Video: https://vimeo.com/60979638

• Laresa Kosloff (AU) is sessional lecturer, School of Art (Painting, Drawing), Monash University, Melbourne. She makes performative videos, Super 8 films, hand drawn animations, sculpture, installations and live performance works. Her practice examines various representational strategies, each one linked by an interest in the body and its agency within the everyday. https://suttongallery.com.au/artists/laresa-kosloff