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Rebecca McIntosh |
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The Money Shot - Mirka Moira, ink-jet print on canvas, 21 x 29cm (approx.), Market value: $300 |
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www.rebeccamcintosh.com |
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Artist's Statement |
Thomas Moore once said: "conversation is the orgasm of the soul". Upon first hearing this, I had to wonder what such a conversation would look like? This is the core exploration for my project "The Money Shot."
The Money Shot is a series of photographic portraits that share the privilege of witnessing human vulnerability in an instant. A series of stills which capture subjects in moments of simulated ecstasy - the point of orgasm - as solicited in interviews where the subjects were invited to discuss what Love means to them.
To create The Money Shot, I examined hundreds of interviews I hosted, filmed and broadcast in performance over the past ten years. I then selected and processed these stills and paired each with relevant quotes from those interviews.
Here is an intensely personal and evocative snapshots of Mirka Moira sharing her most vulnerable public face and heartfelt truth. |
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Biography |
Rebecca McIntosh is an artist of much diversity and experience after graduating from QCA as a Fine Artist in 1989, McIntosh has worked in the visual arts, performance art, circus arts, film, photography and public installations.
Her work is spontaneous, humorous and irreverent and revolves around interactions within public spaces often involving the use of feminine
archetypes as a vehicle for engagement and as an on-going inquiry into selfidentity.
The Public Art/video Installation "Love TV" is McIntosh's most extensive body of work, which she has been developing since 2000. Love TV has been a pioneer in urban screens media, McIntosh having interviewed over a thousand people on the subject of Love in this unique exploration of "the most private conversation in the most public space".
Love TV is a concept that has crossed the boundaries of disciplines having been programmed into Edinburgh Festival (Assembly Rooms 2002) Dublin Fringe Festivals. (2002) Melbourne comedy Festival (Federation Square 2003/2005), Adelaide Fringe (2002/2006), Melbourne Fringe (2004/2007), St Kilda Film Festival Melbourne, Melbourne Writers Festival (2008).
More recently Love TV was the premiere event for Sydney's Art and about Festival Taylor Square 2008, as well as being presented at Urban screens International Conference 2008, opening night Sydney Festival (2009), Brisbane Festival 2009 and Btween Conference Liverpool 2009.
Other work where McIntosh has continued her themes were "Madonnas Milk" (2005) Rose Chong's window Melbourne, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpTgI48-5EM and the photographic montage installation "Fox In a Box " - 'The Dolls House Gallery Preston. 2009. |
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