collaboration Moffatt and Hillberg

Tracey Moffatt
Born 1960 in Brisbane, Australia. 
Lives and works in Sydney and Brisbane, Australia and New York City, USA



Gary Hillberg
Born 1982 in Perth, Australia. 
Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia

 

For the 2008 Sydney Biennale Tracey Moffat collaborated with fellow Australian artist Gary Hillberg to produce ‘Revolution’ (2008), the end result was a visual study into the stereotypes attached to revolution, and its aftermath, in cinema. The film is a ‘mash-up’ of popular dramatic scenes juxtaposed with excerpts from b-grade movies and held together through powerful visual dynamism and a melodramatic soundtrack.

 

This isn’t the first time these two have paired up to create dynamic new footage, in 2003 they made their own 21 minute love story (LOVE 2003) taken from pre-existing classics films to the more dazzling scenes of the 1960’s and 70’s and amalgamated them into an energetic montage of the ‘sugary’ moments of cinema.

 

(Tracey Moffatt and Gary Hillberg have made numerous other movies in the past decade including; Lip - 1999, 10 min. Color and Artist - 1999, 10 min. Color.

 

A film collaboration between Tracey Moffatt and Gary Hillberg 2003, 21 min., Color/BW

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/deepend/features/gallery/gallery2005/img/artworks/moffatt1_big.jpg

(sorry I couldn’t find a picture of REVOLUTION)

 

I think what is so useful or complementary about working in collaboration with another person is that the project is immediately taken from the insula arena of the mind and displayed, reconfigured and discussed in the open air of  minds – one is forced to look both objectively and subjectively at their own workings and ideas. 

Outside ideas generate new perspectives.