the art of modern instituting (IMA)

while i was in Brisbane in early July - Lara, TK, Caitlin (from the TPS5 workshop) and I went along to the IMA to see what they had instore...

Shirin Neshat's Tooba - which i saw earlier in the year, at the Art Gallery of NSW. This piece, shot in Mexico, tells the tale of an older woman who gradually disappears into the trunk of a tree, while the villagers rush over the hills towards the place where this event is happening. The work is displayed on two screens at opposing ends of the darkened space.

and

et al.'s the second of the ordinary practices - an industrial work which ties together text from religious groups and cults etc, with forward/backward shifting dalek-like corrugated iron dunny-structures contained by 6-foot wire fencing.

vastly different works, and yet both incredibly powerful...