Artists

Artist Tracey Moffatt and Gary Hillberg

Tracey Moffatt
Born 1960 in Brisbane, Australia
Lives and works in Sydney and Brisbane, Australia and New York City, USA

Gary Hillberg
Born 1982 in Perth, Australia
Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia

Working since the late 1980s as an experimental filmmaker and a producer of music videos, Tracey Moffatt has created photography, film and video that are concerned with power relations, hysteria, the media and forms of escape from stereotyped subjectivities. Moffatt has directed a series of filmic montages edited in collaboration with Gary Hillberg. For the Biennale, Moffatt and Hillberg present REVOLUTION (2008), a study of the stereotypes associated with revolution in movies. It explores constructions of those stereotypes, both by revelling in revolutions on the wide-screen and by portraying the presumed disastrous after-effects that cinema conveys. Excerpts from well-known films are juxtaposed with clips from B movies in a dynamic and highly crafted composition accompanied by a rhythmic and melodramatic soundtrack.