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Laresa KOSLOFF
New Futures™ 2021 (film still)
4K video (made from commercial stock footage)
4:38 duration
Voice actor: Francis Greenslade
Sound design: Final Sound
Music: Secession Studios
Shakespeare from Richard 11 (Act 5, Scene 5)
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body
23rd Feb — 28th Apr 2024
Simpson Gallery
New Futures™ brings together two darkly humorous video artworks assembled and edited entirely from corporate video stock footage sourced on the internet, each exploring themes of duplicity, neoliberalism and the climate crisis.
In Radical Acts, a group of climate scientists clandestinely distribute a pathogen that renders corporate workers less productive and more accepting of motivations beyond profit. And in New Futures™, a biohacking initiative wages war between the industrious and hyper-charismatic ‘synthetic’ personalities and disgruntled hackers, nostalgic for an apathetic past.
About the artist
Born 1974, Melbourne, Australia
Lives and works Melbourne, Australia
Laresa Kosloff makes performative videos, Super 8 films, hand drawn animations, sculpture, installations and live performance works. Her practice examines various representational strategies, each one linked by an interest in the body and its agency within the everyday.
An incisive humour is woven throughout all of Kosloff’s work, whether it be in questioning the act of “looking” within the public realm, or drawing out the tensions between received cultural values, individual agency and free will.
Laresa Kosloff is represented by Sutton Gallery in Melbourne
Room Sheet featuring essay by Tyson Yunkaporta
Laresa Kosloff: New Futures™ is an official exhibition of PHOTO 2024 International Festival of Photography (photo.org.au), a major biennial of new photography and ideas taking place from 01–24 March in Melbourne and regional Victoria. Responding to the theme ‘The Future Is Shaped by Those Who Can See It’, PHOTO 2024’s expansive program invites audiences to discover the possible and parallel futures that lie ahead, and how current actions and activisms are shaping future realities. PHOTO 2024 is produced by PHOTO Australia in collaboration with cultural institutions, museums and galleries, and education, industry and government partners.
