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Epic (2) Melissa Laing
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Epic (2) Melissa Laing
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Fresh is a series which profiles the work of thirteen of New Zealand's most exciting current practitioners. All recent graduates from arts institutions, both local and international, these artists draw on a vast terrain of medium and criticality's, giving an overview of the diversity and depth of contemporary practice today.

 

Epic (2)
Melissa Laing

February 20 - March 17, 2001

"They create nothing and cause people to wait for something"
Melissa Laing, 2000

Auckland artist Melissa Laing was one of the primary organizers behind Rezone, a series of artist's projects located in parks and recreation areas. Occupying public urban spaces throughout the city, Rezone interrogated both traditional notions of the gallery as 'white cube', and of 'art in the park', with it's array of site specific installation, performance, and multi-media works. She is currently based in the Netherlands where she is studying at postgraduate level.

Epic (2) is part of an ongoing video series by Laing which explores the state of anticipation, often placing the viewer in a situation where a fictional narrative teases them into waiting, unfilled, for a climax or resolution. Utilizing repetition of sound and images, the events in her videos appear common place and mundane - the artist ascending before us in a tube station elevator, a train passing, sequences which loop endlessly and monotonously without end, fixed in place.


Reviews & Essays

Fresh - A series profiling Contemporary New Zealand Practitioners
Essay by Lee Devenish
in The Physics Room Annual 2001
ISBN 0-9582359-1-0

Classy to dull
The Press, 2001 Mar. 14, p. 34
Ussher, Robyn.
Installations by Melissa Laing, Ina Johann, Nathan Pohio.