Proof

Australian Centre for the Moving Image

Melbourne, VIC, Australia

9 December 2004 - 13 February 2005

Curated by Mike Stubbs

'My Ikara' is the central sculpture in a sculptural/video installation titled 'My Woomera Project (What do you fear?)', that was commissioned by Rhys Graham for the 'Proof' exhibition at ACMI.

About the exhibition:
As much an investigation as exhibition, Proof questions how consensus is formed. When our personal information is available for purchase online and when digital manipulation means that seeing has never been further from believing, how do we construct and deconstruct truth? How do you know what you know?

From weapons of mass destruction to children overboard, the testimony of vision is no small matter in contemporary politics. Taking Stan Brakhage's haunting dissection of mortality 'The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes' as its point of departure, this exhibition questions how we negotiate reality through the moving image and confirms that evidence alone isn't proof.