Sem Titulo/Untitled
short video work for TV3 São Paulo, 1997
the walls of São Paulo rendered as painted surface
Credits
camera: Rodrigo Minelli
producer: Eduardo de Jesus
for Associação Cultural Videobrasil
Sem Titulo/Untitled
short video work for TV3 São Paulo, 1997
the walls of São Paulo rendered as painted surface
Credits
camera: Rodrigo Minelli
producer: Eduardo de Jesus
for Associação Cultural Videobrasil
Armada
single channel video and sound installation
video projection on sail of boat, stereo sound 1994 - 1998
Gillies displaces the linearity and telelogical impulse of colonial and industrial history. The past and the present are squeezed together; sounds of old and new trains are mixed, short-wave radio signals generate another space and another landscape. He fuses these sounds and images together as part of an ‘infernal machine', a hegemony that is rapidly spinning into crisis and obsolescence.
Linda Carolli, 'Tall ships / Tall tales, Armada: a video work by John Gillies', 1998
The layering and abstraction of images and sounds encourages the viewer to create new associations and meanings from established auditory and visual icons, leading to an attempt to investigate and redefine established colonial discourses. Griffith University Art Museum 2025
first installed: Griffith University Art Museum, Australia & Museu Arte da Moderna da Bahia, Brazil
curated by: Marguerite Bonnin (Brisbane, Australia), Rosana Almeida Oliveira (Bahia, Brazil)