Video from the multi-media installation of the same name that includes sculpture, drawing, video, and photography.
Urbahn's starting point for this exhibition was an investigation of the work of New Zealand 'environmental' artists from the late 1970s and early 1980s. Perhaps not surprisingly for this astute observer of contemporary urban and youth culture, other influences crept in.
"While I forced myself to look at twig-art and pottery, I still couldn't help being swayed by B movies, my record collection and TV..."
Shot from a bridge over the Tiber in Rome, flotsam moshes to an instrumental version of Motorhead’s Ace of Spades.
Urbahn in the role of criminal, being interviewed by television reporter Mark Crysell.
Taking a video camera Urbahn “stalked” his unwitting subject as she walked along Wellington's Oriental Parade.
