Digital video (3 mins 50 secs, looped)
Shot from inside a spinning, speeding car, this work captures one of the local youth’s attempts to escape their ennui.
Materials:
DVD, rotating postcard rack, postcards (video stills)
Installation requirements:
240V power supply, DVD player, projector
Setup time: 1 day
Postcard … as installed in Radiography (in Sculpture 2005 festival), Sir Hermann Black Gallery, Sydney
Review: Dominique Angeloro, Sydney Morning Herald, Jan 28 2005
“Allan Giddy’s Postcard from Broken Hill consists of a large video projection of a dusty country landscape. Giddy has shot this dizzying footage from a speeding car, creating a blurred vision of the landscape.
It is accompanied by the revved-up sound of the hooning car as it maps out “doughnuts” in the dirt.
Giddy’s installation is even fitted out with a stand of souvenir postcards featuring stills from the video.”