SHAUN GLADWELL
Dead Flag Blues
Dead Flag Blues
Concept: Shaun Gladwell
Dancers: Kathryn Puie, Dean Cross, Matt Cornell
Production Design: Mark Haslam
Dead Flag Blues is developed through researching the calibration of bodies within military culture–drawing an analogy between soldiers and dancers. Specifically, the piece is set in Southern Afghanistan during Australia’s military occupation. Dead Flag Blues attempts to articulate the complexity of representing conflict via video, photography and live movement.
SHAUN GLADWELL is a contemporary artist working within a wide range of mediums. Key concerns of all Gladwell’s activity is the way human beings critically and creatively respond to their immediate environments. Gladwell’s artwork critically engages emerging languages of movement such as skateboarding, BMX riding, break dancing and parkour. An ongoing concern of Shaun’s practice is to consider these activities and others (soldiering) as forms of dance. Shaun Gladwell critically analyses and celebrates the body in a wide range of media such as performance, video installation, film (for cinema), painting, sculpture, printmaking and photography. Most of his artworks are generated from a direct involvement and ongoing personal relationship to urban movement and he often performs in his own work.
Dancehouse, Melbourne - July 2014 - all rights reserved
Documentation by Cobie Orger.