Join Benalla Art Gallery and the artist Laresa Kosloff for the official celebration of her new exhibition New Futures™. The event will include an artist talk by Laresa Kosloff.

Laresa Kosloff makes performative videos, Super 8 films, hand drawn animations, sculpture, installations and live performance works. Her practice examines various representational strategies, each one linked by an interest in the body and its agency within the everyday.

New Futures™ brings together two darkly humorous video artworks assembled and edited entirely from corporate video stock footage sourced on the internet, each exploring themes of duplicity, neoliberalism and the climate crisis.

Laresa Kosloff: New Futures™ is an official exhibition of PHOTO 2024 International Festival of Photography (photo.org.au), a major biennial of new photography and ideas taking place from 01–24 March in Melbourne and regional Victoria. Responding to the theme ‘The Future Is Shaped by Those Who Can See It’, PHOTO 2024’s expansive program invites audiences to discover the possible and parallel futures that lie ahead, and how current actions and activisms are shaping future realities. PHOTO 2024 is produced by PHOTO Australia in collaboration with cultural institutions, museums and galleries, and education, industry and government partners.

IMAGE:
LARESA KOSLOFF
RADICAL ACTS 2020 (FILM STILL)
4K VIDEO (MADE FROM COMMERCIAL STOCK FOOTAGE)
7:29 DURATION.
VOICE ACTRESS: JENNY SEEDSMAN
SINGING: VIOLET COCO FROM EXTINCTION REBELLION
SOUND DESIGN: FINAL SOUND
MUSIC: SECESSION STUDIOS
LIGHT SOURCE COMMISSION, BUXTON CONTEMPORARY, THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE, 2020