Metro Arts and Balmoral Room, Brisbane Australia 2009.
Rehabilitation - AASS, Opening, Thurs 4th March 2010 ...Find out more››
In this instalment of Flashbacks, Chris Howlett continues to examine the way in which meaning is derived from a multiplicity of places, spaces and texts. By making apparent how these complex discursive practices complicate what is meaningful and meaningless, he wants to make us aware of how these often-arbitrary judgments shape the particular ideological spaces we find ourselves in. With this...Continue reading››
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When thinking about how to address the complex political, social and aesthetic implications of Chris Howlett’s exhibitions, I had something of a flashback of my own and was drawn to revisit Andrew Feenberg’s Critical Theory of Technology (1991). As I recalled, this was one of the first books I had read that specifically engaged capitalist,....Continue reading››
Balmoral Room Photofeature | All photography courtesy of Brock Yates
Frequencies is an interactive installation that uses broadcasted FM radio frequencies, modified iPod FM transmitters, mobile phones, and a wide spectrum of non-linguistic human sounds (e.g. laughter, screams, grunts, moans, etc..) lifted from hundreds of films and television programs that explores the formless structure of language and the way these structures influence narrative... Continue reading››
Sound Art
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Christopher Howlett Enterprise was a process driven work of conceptual art that turned the artist’s art practice into a design business through the New Enterprise Incentive Scheme (Neis) which is a Centrelink... Continue reading››
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Propositions has been in development since 2008. It consists of multiple paintings using various techniques from drawing, photography and collage which use oil and acrylic paint, water-proof markers and glue... Continue reading››
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A Semiotic “Analysis”: sound & text exercies - one of the triggers for the work INOUT was a “Four Corners” documentary on an exclusive Christian fundamentalist sect called the Brethren... Continue Reading››
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In 2005 Weapons on the Wall was concentrated into a floor piece with a selected arrangement of works neatly shaped into a rectangle onto the floor. This is an excerpt from the Curatorial Essay published in Arc - Art, Design & Craft Biennial in 2005 titled LINGUA FRANCA by Susan Ostling. Why the title Lingua Franca?... Continue Reading››
“Seduction is important 1 ” by Chris Handran. The title of Chris Howlett’s ongoing series of exhibitions comes from the description of World War II propaganda posters as ‘Weapons on the Wall’3. This phrase indicates the extent... Continue Reading››
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“Lets Get Political” by Rex Butler, Courier mail. Political art always suffers from a dilemma: as political, it has an argument to make; as art, it must be complex, ambiguous and open to several different interpretations... Continue Reading››
As we know, trends in fashion are constantly developing and changing. Thanks to postmodern theorists like Fredric Jameson1, we also understand that fashion, like "culture" generally, is a collage of different eras and styles... Continue Reading››
The Hire Me Out project which took place in Los Angeles was a time based project that ran from 1999 till the end of 2000. It was a conceptual-performance based project that used a situational approach to examine the artist "labor" as a form of... Continue Reading››
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