structures & spectres

structures & spectres is a place where I put images. 

Images that I have taken sometime ago, 

not long ago, 

or even yesterday.
No words, 

just images left to speak for themselves.   

Have a look: 

structures & spectres

Imagining the Cinema Project

The bio box at the Strand Cinema, Creswick

While I am based in Australia I am working on a research project tracking down the sites of historic cinemas in regional Victoria. It’s a rewarding project, which have so far lead me to unearthed more than 300 spaces that have been used to show film at one time or another since the early 1900s. Somewhat like Islington’s Lost Cinemas, a project of mine that focuses on the history of movie-theatres in the London Borough of Islington, many of the old cinemas, public halls or Mechanics Institutes that have brought people together to watch moving images have long gone. Yet both in Islington and the regional towns in Victoria that we are visiting traces of the buildings still exist; be this in the bricks that still stand, in the remembrance of local people or through their imagined projection onto the contemporary spaces of the everyday, such as my aim when photographically documenting the sites as they stand today.

Imaging the Cinema Project is part of a larger and ongoing curatorial and commissioning programme (The Cinemas Project) by Bridget Crone that is developed in partnership with NETS, Victoria and supported by Monash University Faculty of Art and Design.

There is a blog that charts the research project as we journey both into cinema history and across the regional towns in Victoria, Australia. The Imaging the Cinema Project blog can be found here.


ABOUT “THE CINEMAS PROJECT”
The Cinemas Project is an exciting new framework for the commissioning and development of projects by contemporary artists working with the moving image and live performance in relation to the sites of historic cinemas across regional Victoria. The Cinemas Project addresses cinemas as spectral sites, places that are in existence or existing only in memory, and so are full of spirited visions and ghostly images. The Cinemas Project will focus on commissioning new contemporary art work that involves aspects of live performance or the moving image in order to address the type of work initially presented in these spaces.

The Cinemas Project takes these various possibilities as a starting point to invite artists who take these differing approaches to participation and spectatorship, matching one artist to one of the six participating locations across Victoria.