The Melbourne Propaganda Window is a multimedia project that turns Franklin Street into an outdoor multimedia art space every night at sunset.

History
Established in 2008, the Melbourne Propaganda Window was created by local artists Adrian Doyle and Michael Meneghetti to house a permanent, public projection space in Melbourne’s CBD.

Whereabouts
Located in the north end of the city at 110 Franklin Street, the converted front windows of Michael Koro Galleries make up the three large projection screens for the Melbourne Propaganda Window.

Exhibitions

Melbourne Propaganda Window exhibitions and events run simultaneously to those of host Michael Koro Galleries, approximately every three to four weeks.
Local, interstate and international artists and curators are encouraged to participate in this opportunity for developing new public multimedia work.
The Melbourne Propaganda Window is currently inviting fellow artists and curators to submit their proposals for the 2009-2010 exhibition calendar.
A MPW information and proposal form can be downloaded at the bottom of this page.

Artists and Exhibitions

Melbourne Propaganda Window: Screening across Jan and Feb 10

Brie Trenerry

Ascent

Trenerry's three screen projection Ascent at Melbourne Propaganda Window will be an extension of a new installation she is exhibiting at Westspace for the Office of Utopic procedures exhibition: The Aesthetics of Joy, opening in conjunction with the exhibition at Michael Koro.  In the work at Westspace,n Trenerry will incorporate live doves into a custom built environment for the duration of opening night.

 After years of working with dark material and grey walls, Trenerry will walk into the light to explore a psychological state other than fear and anxiety. Trenerry's works have often utilised animals, insects and plants as metaphors to explore ideas surrounding mortality, the psychology of emotions and humankind's uneasy relationship with the natural world.  In this exhibition doves were chosen as a symbolic representation of joy. Traditionally the dove represents the soul leaving the body, undergoing a transformation process to transcend corporeal constraints and represent a divine being- one beyond earthly experience.

Projecting every night from January 28th across February 2010 at Melbourne Propaganda Window, 110 Franklin Street Melbourne.

Melbourne Propaganda Window: Screening across Sept and Oct

Sex with Children: egocentricity, the logic of schizophrenia

A video installation by

Seb Guzman-Ramirez

and

Benjamin L. Schmidt

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it-George Santayana
Transgressive creative force Benjamin Schimidt (26) and Seb Guzman-Ramirez (22) have notoriously captured the attention of many with their ongoing visual, musical and multimedia projects.

Exploring and confronting the mechanisms in atheism and religion, mental illness, mind control, corrupt politics, war and disease, Schimidt and Guzman-Ramirez present the symptoms of a failing world through the eyes of the individual and society simultaneously.

Opening reception Friday 4th September 6pm to 8pm
Screening every night from dusk till late

Melbourne Propaganda Window: Screening across July and August

Nicole Breedon ‘End Game’

‘End Game’ is a looped video projection, revealing a never-ending sequence of recognizable characters from computer/video games from the 1980’s and 90’s meeting their demise. The work reflects the distinctive graphics and colours of the computer games from that era. ‘End Game’ is a metaphor for the simplicity in humankind’s own constant mortality.

Nicole Breedon employs painting, woodwork, video and new media installation to explore the esoteric nature of our cosmos and the human psyche, such as the mind, the origins of the universe and creation, the future, time and space. Her work examines humankind's infinitesimal position within the orders of magnitude, in contrast to the richness and depth of the human experience.

Benjamin Xavier Last ‘Lifeblood’

Benjamin Xavier Last's work explores the symbiotic nature of opposites and their relationships within our mindscape. Using intriguing juxtapositions, Last’s practice is an ongoing search for visual resolutions between well worn polarities: light and dark, beauty and horror, good and evil, pleasure and pain, life and death.

'Lifeblood' is a short animation of a tree-like growth sprouting from a human hand. As the tree rapidly grows, it oddly beats in rhythm with the hand, and then slowly ceases to beat, blackening the hand as it dies.

Michael John Winter Meneghetti ‘I heart you’

‘Feeling lonely and isolated, I watched from afar the endless parade of freshly married couples and their wedding parties photographed at the same spot under the Manhattan Bridge. It was at that moment I began to understand the desire to fuse oneself to a landmark by photography and how it could validate our communal experiences and rites of passages imposed on the individual to be individual.’  

Michael John Winter Meneghetti utilises video, sculpture and performance in his practice. He chases masculine archetypes and myths.

June 2009: Jenny Hall 'Hair Today'

Confronting and narcissistic, Hall skilfully plays out her visceral act whilst maintaining a poker face.
'Hair Today' sounds light and playful, but its nature is quite far from it. 'Hair Today' explores loss of the emotional and physical through an obsession with the feminine appearance. The voyeur is invited to watch Hall's private and personal engagement with her own reflected image. In this incarnation of the artist self portrait, the moving images explore a passive, yet disturbing performance of Hall pulling her own hair out before the camera, oscillating between an act of self-grooming to that of self-harm.
The saying 'I feel like pulling my hair out' will resonate differently after seeing 'Hair Today'.

May 2009: Pip Ryan ‘machine compilation 15’

    
Pip Ryan: Recording between space, sound and sight.
Inhabiting 110 Franklin Street across May 2009 is media artist Pip Ryan’s video ‘machine compilation 15’, an ongoing investigation into the relationship between space and sight.
Ryan’s artistic practice involves a combination of installation and screen-based work. In ‘machine compilation 15’, the construction of temporary machines from hard rubbish and discarded toys modulate the recording camera through motion, direction and location. The result is a complex and pictorially loaded videoscape.
‘machine compilation 15’ is juxtaposition of fast and loud imagery that challenges the conventional camera as a recorder of sight.

April 2009: Joel Gailer ‘text and light’ Joel Gailer

Blender Christmas: 288 Portraits x 3 
Adrian Doyle, Alex Gibson and Michael Meneghetti