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We all think we know how a piece of music sounds, but could you accurately whistle your favourite Hollywood soundtrack?
This is the challenge that artist Karen Casey has given each of the performers in her new video work Pucker Up, a playful exploration of how people young and old recall iconic movie themes.
As the multi-screen video work reveals, an original score can alter with each iteration, regardless of how iconic or memorable it might be, yet somehow in the muddle that we make of it, we are still able to agree... that's definitely it!
For the work Casey brings together a selection of friends and acquaintances, including identities from the visual and performing arts and music industry such as Johnnie Walker, Steve Kilbey and Djon Mundine.
In editing these tuneful and not-so-tuneful whistling renditions, Casey creates a work wherein the whole becomes more than the sum of its parts. It is a musical feast that highlights the not always accurate nature of memory. Casey has long been interested in human perception and cognition. She is well known for her ambitious explorations into the arts and cognitive neuroscience. Pucker Up examines the processes through which we receive, record and reiterate - albeit in a humorously entertaining manner.
Karen Casey is an Indigenous Australian interdisciplinary/new media artist who explores intersections between the arts, science and society. Casey has exhibited in numerous curatorial and overseas touring exhibitions since the late1980’s and is widely represented in National galleries and public collections in Australia and internationally including the British Museum, London; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; National Gallery Australia; National Gallery Victoria; Art Gallery New South Wales; Queensland Art Gallery; Art Gallery South Australia; Art Gallery Western Australia; Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery; Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. She has received several significant public commissions and awards and has worked with architects, urban planners and developers on various corporate and public projects, as both collaborative consultant and commissioned artist. Her exploration of various digital technologies and collaborations with both arts and non-arts professionals from diverse fields and backgrounds has given rise to original interactive and hybrid art forms. Karen Casey is represented exclusively by Anna Pappas Gallery.
Anna Pappas Gallery
2 - 4 Carlton Street Prahran
Victoria 3181 Australia
