Several performance based video works

RESEARCH BACKGROUND Curated by Margaret Moore, 'Take Five' featured 3 video and performance artists, Elise/Jürgen, Acquittal Report and Redfern, for the Visual Arts programs of the 2010 Perth International Arts Festival. This selection of work by Redfern illustrates his evolving research into performance, performativity and video. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION Redfern addresses evolving theories of subjectivity; the video serves as an accomplice in the performative process, not only to document, but also to place the viewer within screen space. His work operates in the gap between self-portraiture, fiction and document to draw audience attention to the artifice of screen language. 'Often using humour and a variety of self-reflexive devices to complicate the relationship between artist, representation and viewer, in this sense the technology of video is both subject and medium for his work, which gives critical expression to the complexity of everyday screen-mediated experience. Literalised through these encounters with screen technology, his practice addresses the fragility, mutability and multiplicity of contemporary identity.' (Margaret Moore, Perth International Festival Program). The screen has come to occupy much of our time and thus our minds. Arguably it acts as agent in the confusion and destabilisation of scripts for the performed entities we have come to understand ourselves to be. Redfern's later works illustrate his evolving research through a greater emphasis on the relationship between site and subject which has developed as he investigates broader geo-cultural influences on the construction of identity. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE Redfern's videos were screened on a recently installed City of Perth Northbridge Piazza Screen, therefore marking the presentation of Redfern's videos in this new outdoor screening space as an elastic public art extension of the artist's video research.