New Diagonal 2007, Deep & Shallow 2004, Feeling for You 2002 (3 video works exhibited as part of Art #1, 2010)

BACKGROUND Curated by Hannah Matthews for the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, ART #1 was an initiative to take the latest works from Melbourne's leading contemporary art space to regional Victorian galleries. In this collection of 3 performative videos Kosloff utilises techniques of comic performance and irony to critically investigate society's relationship to aestheticised criteria (such as geometry, formalism). Her work embraces various representational strategies, each one linked by an interest in the body and its agency within the everyday. Exhibited at Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery in 2010, this show included work from Australian video artists Shaun Gladwell, Anastasia Klose, David Rozetsky, and Daniel von Sturmer. Catalogue essays are by Olivia Barrett, Jared Davis and Helen Hughes. CONTRIBUTION Kosloff's videos occur at the collision-point of human bodies and formal objects. Barrett describes the work as "revisionist narratives, where there is space for humour, imprecision and female flesh...Kosloff offers a kinetic dialogue about what bodies and objects share, exchange and transmit to the other." The work presents sport and modern abstraction combined with performative gestures to explore human idiosyncrasies and ideas of difference. The strategies of humour and irony allow Kosloff to explore relational frameworks and challenge cultural ideals around the athletic body. This work builds upon an idiolect that has developed from research into the use of performative gestures in art to contribute to the broader discourse of performative video art that utilises humorous approaches and techniques of ironic juxtaposition to examine cultural ideals about the body. SIGNIFICANCE ER Exhibited in Wangaratta under the auspices of ACCA (committed to showcasing contemporary artists from around the world) in partnership with the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust to take major art works to regional Victorian galleries.