My performance video, Circumcision, was selected for the exhibition of finalists in the 2008 National Tertiary Art Prize! The exhibition opens at 6pm on Thursday, November 6 at the UTS Loft Bar, No. 15 Broadway and the winners will be announced at 6:45pm. The show runs from 6 November – 13 November, I’d love for … More NTAP 2008
lampoon /lampoon/ • verb publicly satirize or ridicule. • noun a satirical attack. — ORIGIN French lampon, said to be from lampons ‘let us drink’. Mike Parr and Peter Kennedy’s 1972 film Idea Demonstrations sits with commanding gravitas at the headwaters of Australian performance and conceptual art history. The film documents a series of twenty-four … More Seminal Fluids
Sach and I have a work in a show! Seminal Fluids The opening is on Wednesday, August 20 (from 6-8pm) at FirstDraft. The address is 116-118 Chalmers St, Surry Hills. There will also be an artists talk on Saturday, September 6 at 4:30pm. The show runs from 20 August – 6 September, we’d love for … More One Below Parr
I have a work in a group show! Untitled The opening is on Thursday, August 7 (from 6 – 9pm) at At The Vanishing Point. The address is 565 King St, Newtown. The show runs from 7 – 24 August, I’d love for you to come along and check it out.
My Body, My Business was a group show at At The Vanishing Point in Newtown, dealing with issues relating to the body. My contribution to the show was a video of my performance, Circumcision. It was accompanied by a small artist’s statement: The performance piece, Circumcision, explores notions of catharsis and the possibility of its … More My Body, My Business
I have a work in a group show! My Body, My Business The opening is on Thursday, May 8 (from 6 – 9pm) at At The Vanishing Point. The address is 565 King St, Newtown. The show runs from 8 – 25 May, I’d love for you to come along and check it out.
Notes from the Fall was a show of acrylic drawings at the Silver Spoon Gallery in Balmain, dealing with notions of falling and failure. The diagrams from the exhibition contrast various myths and ideas about falling in an investigation of the fundamentally broken nature of humanity. Hans/Icare compares the tragic death of the artist Bas … More Notes from the Fall
I have a show! Notes from the Fall It’s on Tuesday, March 11 (from 6-11pm) at a student run gallery, the Silver Spoon. The address is 456 Darling St, Balmain, underneath the Cat and Fiddle Hotel. I’d love for you to come along and check it out.
I am planning an exhibition with my good friend Sach. Our works have some visual and conceptual similarities but also many differences. We are both performance and video oriented and our practices share concerns at times about art and life. His latest work is an attempt to physicalise a visceral reaction to the work of … More Relational Being
Tom Isaacs 