Mar. 29th, 2012
A bit silly
Mar. 29th, 2012 01:14 am
This part of an exhibition at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, which is described on their website as
Isle of Many Waters
In 1939 Frank Hurley’s short film, Isle of Many Waters, promoted Tasmania’s historic sites and rugged natural landscape, encouraging tourists to ‘holiday amidst the lovely waterways, crags and vales of sunny Tasmania’. Inspired by Hurley’s travelogue, the exhibition Isle of Many Waters presents old home movies, news reels and documentaries alongside contemporary video art to explore Tasmania’s waterways - the rivers, lakes and oceans - as sites of mesmerising beauty, personal journeys, contested power and social playgrounds.
or my version: There this big screen in the middle of the room with lots of TV screens along the sides, all showing different things.
As I was going in, the lady at the desk saw my camera and said I could take photos in the Isle of Many Waters exhibit but not in the other art galleries. So I did.
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