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Intelligence is the second of two consecutive exhibitions
by Richard Grayson for Matt’s Gallery. The dual projection video work
Messiah was shown before Christmas, and Intelligence, a three screen video
installation with sound, is currently being screened.
Intelligence uses the Birth Charts of some of the individuals who have
helped shape the current situations in the Middle East. These include George
W Bush, Tony Blair, Yasser Arafat, Osama Bin Laden, Ariel Sharon, Condoleezza
Rice etcetera. The charts have been drawn from the web and each chart is accompanied
by a commentary which is itself computer generated. There are computer programmes
available which will give you a detailed and seemingly personalized commentary
when you input the date, place, time and location of birth. From this data,
the positions of the stars and planets and their relations are generated. In
astrology, each relation and placing has a specific meaning or significance.
The computer systematically combines these to produce a document that promises
insight into some of the deep motivations and character traits of an individual
and shows all the signs of empathy. “Remember, computer readings are more
accurate than you think” is the legend on the Merlin pop-up. If you believe
in Astrology, this may be true, and if you do not subscribe to this belief system,
it will seem unlikely. There is an analogy here to be made for the use of technological
forms of data gathering in the Iraq war. In the eighth century Baghdad was one
of the great libraries of Astrological lore and was a point from which it was
re-introduced into the west in the early medieval period.
This exhibition was generously supported by The Henry Moore Foundation, Arts and Humanities Research Board, Arts Council England and Australia Council for the Arts
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Biography
Selected Solo
Exhibitions 2006 Suspicious Fires, Yuill/Crowley Gallery, Sydney 2005 Intelligence, Matt’s
Gallery, London 2004 Messiah, Matt’s
Gallery, London and Yuill/Crowley Gallery, Sydney; The Messiah, Kunstlerhaus
Gethanien, Berlin 2002 A Diary, A History,
A Walk up the Hill, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide; Ways the
World Ends, Yuill/Crowley Gallery, Sydney 2000 Negative
Space (things I
don’t understand), Yuill/Crowley Gallery, Sydney 1999 1000
accidents/Ahistoryofreading,
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; Ahistoryofreading Artspace, Sydney 1998 A
Famous Struggle/VariousThings Explained, Contemporary Art Centre, Adelaide
Selected Group Exhibitions 2009 International
Artist in Residence: New Works
09.01. curated by Trevor Smith at Artpace, San Antonio, Texas 2008 Obscurum
Obscurantis
Tallin Arthoone, Estonia 2007 A Number of
Worlds Resembling Our Own Smart Project
Space, Amsterdam; Navigations Per Forma Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
2006 Happy Believers 7th Werkleitz Biennial,
Halle Germany 2005 Art
Unlimited Basel; Project 3 CACSA Adelaide; Electric Renaissance Culture-Centre
Halle; Gott
sehen - Das Überirdische als Thema derZeitgenössischen Kunst Kunstmuseum
des Kantons Thurgau, Kartause Ittingen, Switzerland 2004 Cartographies Performance
Space, Sydney; Planet B Magazin 4 Vorarlberger Kunstverein and Bregenzer Kunstverein,
Bregenz Selected Exhibitions as Curator 2007 Scary
Movie Contemporary Art Centre,
Adelaide 2006 This Will Not Happen Without You (Basement to Locus 1979 - 2007)
(Arts Council touring exhibition) John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, Hatton Gallery,
Newcastle and Belfast University; A Secret Service (Hayward Gallery
touring exhibition) Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill and
The Whitworth Gallery,
Manchester 2002 Sydney Biennale (The World May Be) Fantastic Sydney, Australia
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Bibliography
Selected Articles and Publications 2007 You
Talking to Me? On curating Group Shows that Give you a Chance to Join the Group Ralph
Rugoff, What Makes a Great Exhibition, Ed Paula Marincola, Philadelphia Center
for Arts and Heritage; A Secret Service, Sally O'Reilly, Art Monthly,
May issue; A Secret Service Peter Suchin, Frieze, issue 107; Odd
unnerving and utterly compelling, Kirsten Smith, The Guardian, January 27 2006 A
Secret Service Robert Clark, The Guardian, September 16 2005 Modern
Art: A Critical Introduction Pam Meecham & Julie Sheldon, Routledge; Richard
Grayson Gabriel Coxhead, Meta Papers; Richard Grayson Martin Herbert,
Time Out issue 63; Messiah, Richard Grayson Peter Suchin, Art Monthly,
February 2005 issue 28 2004 I am Good at
Games Ed Boris Kremer essays by Ihor Holubiziky and Astrid Mania, Planet
B Catalogue, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien; 2003 Ways
of Saying; Reflections on the recent paintings of Maria Cruz and Richard Grayson Art
and Australia, Vol 41, no 1 2002 In your
dreams, HQ Magazine, May; Why the Biennale is a bit of a miracle, Bruce
James, Sydney Morning Herald, 17 May; Fietta Jarque El capital siempre determina
a las biendes, El Pais, 16 Feb; Sydney apre la Biennale: la finzione
a di scena, Flash Art (Italy), April/May; 2002 Biennale of Sydney, Simon
Rees, Flash Art No 225 July/Sep; Cuts and thrust, Michael Hutak, The
Bulletin 16, April; A Fabulous Mess, Michael Hutak, The Bulletin, 4
June; As Good as a Wink, Benjamin Genocchio, The Weekend Australian
25 May; Tate Magazine, Issue 29, Summer; Biennale of Sydney, Jeff Gibson,
Artforum, Autumn; Fantasic Sydney Biennale, Michael Benton, Art in America,
November; Biennale of Sydney, Sotiis Kyriacou, Contemporary, June; Fabulous-Biennale, Hannah
Fink, Art Monthly (Australia), No. 151 Selected Writing
(articles and catalogue essays)
2008 A Number of Disappearances, catalogue essay, Mark Wallinger; Traceurs
To Trace, catalogue essay, Layla Curtis, Chelsea Space, Aargauer Kunsthaus
Switzerland; Door Window Draw, catalogue essay for exhibition of works
by Anna Barriball at Gallery Bo Bierggaard, Copenhagen, Denmark; Lindsay
Seers, SMART Papers, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Scary
Movie, catalogue essay, Contemporary Art Centre SA, Australia; Without
You This Will Not Happen: (Basement to Locus 1979 to 2007), University of
Sunderland Press 2006 Hexen 2039, Suzanne
Treister, essay, Black Dog Publishing; A Secret Service, Hayward Gallery 2005 Mike
Nelson: Between a formula and a code, contributors Peter Eleey, Richard
Grayson, Ralph Rugoff and Rob Tufnell, Turner Contemporary, Koenig Books 2004 Doubtiful:
dans les plis du réel University of Rennes, catalogue essay; Qualified
Survivors: A curriculum for artists, ed Paul Boneventura and Steven Farthing,
Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University 2003
Ideal States James Angus Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, catalogue essay 2002 Grasshopperworlds:
The World May Be Fantastic catalogue essay, Sydney Biennale; Mike Nelson:
The Deliverance and the Patience catalogue essay for Peer Trust, 49th Venice
Biennale
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