Calile Culture: Institute of Modern Art Presents Daniel Crooks
This luxe hotel is opening its exclusive rooftop to the public for an inspiring evening of acclaimed video art and thought-provoking conversation.
Overview
The Calile Hotel isn't all sun-drenched sessions by the pool. Since its earliest days, the award-winning stay has championed forward-thinking arts and culture experiences, giving a plethora of fascinating artists, creatives and thinkers the space to create or share their wisdom through engaging conversations.
This trend continues with the latest in the hotel's ongoing Calile Culture series, featuring renowned moving-image artist Daniel Crooks. Taking over the rooftop on Wednesday, July 8 from 6–7.30pm, the acclaimed creator will showcase three seminal video works, as well as his most recent commission for Australian architecture practice, m3architecture.
Presented in collaboration with the Institute of Modern Art (IMA), this one-night-only affair is the first Calile Culture event to be hosted on the open-air rooftop — a space normally reserved for staying guests. However, outside ticketholders are welcome to experience Crooks' distinctive visual language, spanning video, photography and sculpture, now held in many of the world's most esteemed public and private collections.
Interested in how movement, space and duration shape our perception of reality, Crooks' video work — set against the Brisbane skyline, no less — will be supported by an absorbing conversation between Crooks, IMA Director Robert Leonard and m3architecture Director Michael Banney, with the trio exploring the intersection of art, architecture and theory in relation to time and place.
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