LISTENHEAR

Overview

Australian artist Peter Kennedy became known as a pioneer in the '70s for creating multi-media art and never-before-seen exhibition strategies. Now, over 50 years since his first creation, Milani Gallery premieres Kennedy's 1/4 inch video tapes as an eleven-channel video and sound installation.

Kennedy was born in Brisbane in 1945, and began exhibiting in the mid 1960s. By the end of that decade he'd begun to forge new artistic territory in Australia through his conceptually aligned art practice and light-based efforts. He was set on creating immersive environments, in which minimalistic arrangements of coloured neon tubs made up most of his work. He went on to utilise performance, photography, sound and drawing — and by the late 1970s, his pieces were politically engaged and activism-oriented in nature. In the years since, he has exhibited wildly in both Australia and overseas, and is also the recipient of a numerous coveted grants and awards.

LISTENHEAR features Body Concert 2: Extended, a five-channel video work of one of Kennedy’s body and sound performances, as well as The Photographs’ Story, part one of a new, six-part video work.