ADAM GECZY
'DIASPORA GATHERED'
CHALK HORSE IN COLLABORATION WITH FIRSTDRAFT
7 OCTOBER - 5 NOVEMBER, 2011
Adam Geczy is both an artist and critic-historian. His art practice has been dominated by multimedia installation and video, but he also exhibits regularly in areas of drawing and photomedia. Salient issues have been how to represent political dissent in a non-literal way, and traditional issues of love, death, loss and the fundamental nature of human tactile experience. Recent works have also used beauty as a positive response to disaffection with social alienation. He also has an active ongoing collaborative practice with the performance artist Mike Parr, Australia’s National Treasure, the composer Peter Sculthorpe and the Berlin-based electronic sound composer and installation artist, Thomas Gerwin.
'Diaspora Gathered' is a project with the Australian Armenian community, and was opened by the Hon. Ms. Gladys Berejiklian, Transport Minister for NSW. Berejiklian spoke very movingly and eloquently about the Armenian Holocaust and the subsequent diaspora. Certain members were moved to tears recalling the horrors of the event and were happy that an artist like Adam Geczy was addressing the terrible Armenian past, and bringing it to greater recognition. See images below, in reference to the opening night and Berejiklian's inaugurating speech.
'Diaspora Gathered' is a project with the Australian Armenian community, and was opened by the Hon. Ms. Gladys Berejiklian, Transport Minister for NSW. Berejiklian spoke very movingly and eloquently about the Armenian Holocaust and the subsequent diaspora. Certain members were moved to tears recalling the horrors of the event and were happy that an artist like Adam Geczy was addressing the terrible Armenian past, and bringing it to greater recognition. See images below, in reference to the opening night and Berejiklian's inaugurating speech.
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