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BADEN PAILTHORPE CADENCE

BADEN PAILTHORPE CADENCE 25 July - 18 August 2013

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© Martin Browne Contemporary © All images copyright Baden Pailthorpe This catalogue is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. COMPILER: Hilary Perrett COLOUR SEPARATIONS: Spitting Image, Sydney PRINTING: Southern Colour, Sydney Cover Image: Cadence III, 2013, HD Digital Video, colour, sound, 4 min, ed. 5 + 2AP

LIST OF WORKS Cadence I, 2013, HD digital video, colour, sound, 6 min, ed. 5 + 2 AP Cadence II, 2013, HD digital video, colour, sound, 6 min, ed. 5 + 2 AP Cadence III, 2013, HD digital video, colour, sound, 4 min, ed. 5 + 2AP Cadence IV, 2013, HD digital video, colour, sound, 4 min, ed. 5 + 2 AP

BADEN PAILTHORPE | CADENCE Cadence is a series of four new media artworks that negotiate the relationship between warfare and the performative traditions and rituals of military institutions. In each work, Australian, US and Taliban soldiers are placed in a series of formal landscapes appropriated from pro-military cinema and military simulators. Rather than enacting standard military gestures or postures, these simulated soldiers perform choreographed dances â&#x20AC;&#x201C; slow and poetic in two of the works, tribal and syncopated in the others. The movements of the collective military body can be perceived as a carefully calibrated choreography. The seductive visual rhythm of cadence, camouflage and mimicry in Baden Pailthorpeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playful works gestures towards the dark heart of military history, where soldiers and psychedelics have often combined with alien environs to produce mystic escapes. Baden Pailthorpe is currently the recipient of an Early Career Residency at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.

Cadence I, 2013, HD digital video, colour, sound, 6 min, ed. 5 + 2 AP

Cadence II, 2013, HD Digital Video, colour, sound, 6 min, ed. 5 + 2 AP

Cadence III, 2013, HD digital video, colour, sound, 4 min, ed. 5 + 2AP

Cadence IV, 2013, HD digital video, colour, sound, 4 min, ed. 5 + 2 AP

BADEN PAILTHORPE

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1984 born Canberra, Australia Lives and works in Sydney, Australia

2013 Transito MX 05, Biomediations, Mexico City, Mexico. Curated by Sarah Cook & Rodrigo Alonso. (Forthcoming) 2013 The Games of Art, Pinnacles Gallery, Townsville, Australia. Curated by Lubi Thomas. (Forthcoming) 2013 Very few good men & Formation VI, The Australian War Memorial, Canberra, Australia. (Forthcoming) 2013 The Games of Art, Queensland University of Technology Creative Precinct, Brisbane, Australia Curated by Lubi Thomas. (Forthcoming) 2013 Moving_Image 10, La Gaite Lytique, Paris 2013 Carpentry of Speculative Things, Alaska Projects, Sydney, Australia. Curated by Prue Gibson. 2013 Sciences et Fictions, La Gaîté Lyrique / Galerie de Roussan, Paris, France. Curated by Manuela de Barros 2013 Autumn Group Exhibition, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, Australia. 2013 Military Vision, Screen Space, Melbourne, Australia. (Curator) 2012 Summer Group Exhibition, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, Australia. 2012 Topographies Virtuelles, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France. 2012 CODE 2012, Melbourne, Australia. Curated by Dean Keep. 2012 Spring Group Exhibition, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, Australia. 2012 Café des Espérances, Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen, The Netherlands. Curated by Saskia Monshouwer. 2012 FILE 2012, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Curated by Fernanda Albuquerque de Almeida. 2012 Yes, We’re Open, The Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 2012 HRAFF, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne, Australia. Curated by Frances Wilkinson & Samantha McCulloh.

EDUCATION Current Doctor of Philosophy (Aesthetics and New Media) UNSW, Sydney, Australia 2011 Master of Fine Art (New Media) l’Université Paris VIII,Vincennes-Saint-Denis, Paris, France 2009 Master of Art (Photomedia) The College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney, Australia 2007 Bachelor of Arts (French Studies, Arabic & Islamic Studies) The University of Sydney, Australia SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2014 Cadence, Westspace, Melbourne, Australia (Forthcoming) 2013 Cadence, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, Australia (Forthcoming) 2012 Formations, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, Australia 2012 Formations, Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, Australia 2012 Lingua Franca, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2010 Twist, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2010 Other v2.0, Inflight A.R.I, Hobart, Australia 2010 Other v2.0, Kings A.R.I., Melbourne, Australia 2008 Translocality, Oh Really Gallery, Sydney, Australia

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (CONTINUED)

GRANTS AWARDS AND PRIZES (CONTINUED)

2012 Action Frame, Elita Milano, Teatro Franco Parenti, Milan, Italy. Curated by Philip Tonda Heide. 2012 Game Change, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, USA. Curated by Harry Delorme. 2011 Prosume This, BEKO, Berlin, Germany. Curated by Kim Asendorf, Jonus Lund, Anthony Antonellis & Anika Schwazlose. 2011 Pixel Pops!, Galerie Nouvel Organon, Paris, France. Curated by Philip Tonda Heide. 2011 Poles Apart, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne, Australia. Curated by Natalya Maller. 2011 Firstdraft 25, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney, Australia. 2011 Monobandes II, Les Territoires, Montréal, Canada. 2011 Lingua Franca, Re-new Digital Arts Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark. 2011 Twist, Games Culture Circle, HBC, Berlin, Germany. 2009 Doug Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize, Online exhibition, Sydney, Australia. 2009 Mugshots, Oh Really Gallery, Sydney, Australia. 2009 COFA Annual, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney, Australia. 2009 Winter Set, Marker Gallery, Melbourne, Australia. 2008 Iris, Perth Centre for Photography (PCP), Perth, Australia.

2012 Curator Mentorship Initiative (with Screen Space), National Association for the Visual Arts, Australia 2012 Research Excellence Award, Ph.D Scholarship, UNSW, Australia 2011 Faculty Top-Up Ph.D Scholarship, Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW, Australia 2011 Australian Post-Graduate Award (APA), 3 year Ph.D Scholarship, UNSW, Australia 2011 New Work Grant (Early Career), The Australia Council for the Arts, Sydney, Australia. 2011 1st Place, Masters by Research (Arts Plastiques), l’Université Paris VIII, France. 2009 The Dean’s List for Academic Excellence, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Australia 2009 Doug Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize (Semi-Finalist), Sydney, Australia 2008 Iris Portrait Prize, Perth Centre for Photography (Finalist), Perth, Australia

GRANTS AWARDS AND PRIZES 2013 Finalist, City of Hobart Art Prize, Australia 2013 External Research Grant, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia 2013 Artist Run Initiatives, Australia Council for the Arts, with Screen Space, Melbourne, Australia 2013 Early-Career Residency, Australia Council for the Arts, at The Australian War Memorial, Canberra 2012 New Work Grant (Early Career), The Australia Council for the Arts, Sydney, Australia

RESIDENCIES 2013 Curatorial residency, Screen Space, Melbourne (Forthcoming, 2013-14) 2013 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France. (Forthcoming, October - December, 2013) 2013 The Australian War Memorial, Canberra, Australia. 2011 Firstdraft Emerging Artist Studio Program, Sydney, Australia. COLLECTIONS Artbank The Australian War Memorial Museum, Canberra. The Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk), Amsterdam. The National Library of Australia, Canberra. Various private collections in Australia.