Still from The swimming race (Mexico City) (2018) Sandy Gibbs
Can failure be generative? How is the athletic strength of women depicted and interpreted? What happens when we restage events from the past?
Sandy Gibbs speaks to Thomasin Sleigh about a new body of work made over six years in response to the 1968 Olympics, a project made between Aotearoa, Mexico, and Germany which used failure as a generative process.
Gibbs discusses older women taking the space, critiquing the idea of competition in sport and art, and using restaging as a video art methodology.
The artist attempts to restage the final of the women's 400 metres individual medley from the 1968 Mexico Olympics.
The artist restages a dance that the actress Raquel Welch performed in 1968, in front of Mexico's modernist monuments.
The artist strides into the Olympic stadium in Mexico and is overcome by emotion.
The artist attempts to map out the spy disguise instructions of Stasi training manuals.
A homage to Norma Enriqueta Basilio, the first woman to light the Olympic flame, and a celebration of the ageing female body.
Part of a series of works where the artist seeks to restage a swimming race from the 1968 Mexico Olympics.
The artist restages from memory a phone call made to their childhood hero, the swimmer Tui Shipston.
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Comic Release: John Vea
“The smile goes away the longer they experience the work” - John Vea discusses how his practice uses humour to draw audiences into deeper conversations around Pasifika identity.
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Sam Tozer on VFX and 'Impossible Lenses' in Brett Graham's Whangamārino
How can artists work with visual effects makers? Kathryn Graham speaks to Sam Tozer about his work on Brett Graham's six channel video work Whangamārino.