The Ongoing Remains Part 2 - Wit(h)ness a Haunting 2019
51 minute 19 second single channel video with original score by J.David Franzke
Commissioned by the Art Gallery Of New South Wales Sydney, for the exhibition The National 2019: New Australian Art, The Ongoing Remains: 3 Parts comprised sculptural, moving image and photographic elements presented at multiple sites thoughout the Gallery's Neo-Classical and Modernist buildings.
Part 1: The Emissaries, Keepers of our Stories comprised 26 unique state, intentionally misaligned casts based on the fifteenth century portrait of Niccolò da Uzzano, attributed to the Italian Renaissance master Donatello, installed in the Gallery’s Entrance Vestibule and Grand Court.
Part 2: Wit(h)ness, A Haunting, (featured here) a 59.19 min single channel HD video projection representing, in slow motion, the grinding down of an earlier edition of the casts amid clouds of white dust. It was installed at large scale within the context of the nineteenth century sculpture collection in the Gallery’s Old Courts.
Part 3: Continuum, The Persistence of Being, comprised three photographic portraits of selected cast residues following the production of Part 2: Wit(h)ness, A Haunting. A selection of these portraits were installed on the level below on the the back wall of the last of the exhibition galleries.
Presented in this site-specific configuration, The Ongoing Remains 3 Parts was the first and last work experienced by visitors to the exhibition.
See The Ongoing Remains Part 1 - The Emissaries: Keepers of our Stories here
See The Ongoing Remains Part 3 - Continuum: The Persistence of Being here
Download a copy of the exhibition catalogue text on Hazewinkel's project by Professor Ross Gibson here
Installation photography Andrew Hazewinkel
