A curated series of video artworks were transported nightly to different laneways on specially created rickshaws.
Artist: Emma Pike, Rusty Langdon
Curator: Emma Pike, Amanda Sharrad, Justine Topfer
Curator: Emma Pike, Amanda Sharrad, Justine Topfer
This artwork was temporary and is no longer at this location.
Artwork description
The Amazing Rolling Picture Show was a series of 13 unique video artworks, exhibited on selected evenings by projection screens mounted on 2 specially created rickshaws.
The custom-built, pedal-powered vehicles could be configured to display single or double-screen artworks. Each performance night the rickshaws were cycled to different locations where the screens and projectors were assembled to create intimate installation spaces in Sydney’s historic laneways.
After showing contrasting and unpredictable works, lighting up the laneways with engaging and inspiring reflections, the installations were dismantled and cycled away to be stored until the next performance.
Video works
The video works, which ranged from political to playful, whimsical and sentimental, were created by a wide range of artists including:
- established Sydney-based performance and video artists Heath Franco, Liam Benson and Harriet Body
- performance art collective Brown Council and activist art collective boatpeople.org
- Melbourne-based video artists Scott Morrison and Benjamin Ducroz, and animation artist Isobel Knowles
- former Sydney artists based internationally, Imogen Heath and Sam Icklow.
Artists
The Amazing Rolling Picture Show was created by Rusty Langdon and Emma Pike.
The rickshaws were designed and assembled by Rusty Langdon of Stallion Bikes, a custom bicycle creator based in Redfern.
Emma Pike is an independent curator and was the founding co-director of Videokills, an international platform for video artists that originated in Berlin in 2008.
