Sunday, July 03, 2005
For alien experiences, try Campbelltown
By Samantha Selinger-Morris
July 2, 2005
As Tom Cruise discovers in War of the Worlds, aliens can pop up in the most unlikely of places. Downtown New York, for instance. Or Campbelltown.
The UFO Society of Western Sydney says the suburb is one of three hotspots for sighting mysterious craft, after Collaroy and the Blue Mountains.
Regina Walter was researching an artwork when she sat in on one of the society's monthly meetings at the Campbelltown Public Library.
She began researching drug use in the area, but in looking for information on the internet about hallucinations found "this amazing UFO stuff instead".
The result is Silent Boundary, pictured, an installation of projected light patterns that mimics those often cited by UFO spotters.
The work is included in C'Town Bling, at the new $10 million Campbelltown Arts Centre which opens this weekend.
The curator of C'Town Bling, Anne Loxley, said she hoped the exhibition, which runs until August 18, would disabuse many Sydneysiders of their prejudices about Campbelltown.
"People from the metropolitan centre better fang it down the M5," she said, laughing. "When you think of traipsing around the gallery tracks it would be great if people understand
that this is an important venue."
The Silent Boundary exhibit can be seen only from midnight to 3am in a gallery space with a huge window that fronts the Moore Oxley bypass, to give passers-by a Close Encounters
of the Third Kind experience.
Other works at the opening include Adam Cullen's satire in the form of a painting, Kmart Hillbillies, Ricky Swallow's iMan Prototypes (sculptures that morph from iMac computers
into skulls) and The Motel Sisters, a parody of the Hilton sisters.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/for-alien-experiences-try-campbelltown/2005/07/01/1119724815842.html?oneclick=true
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By Samantha Selinger-Morris
July 2, 2005
Close encounters of the raving kind.
Photo: Brendan Esposito
As Tom Cruise discovers in War of the Worlds, aliens can pop up in the most unlikely of places. Downtown New York, for instance. Or Campbelltown.
The UFO Society of Western Sydney says the suburb is one of three hotspots for sighting mysterious craft, after Collaroy and the Blue Mountains.
Regina Walter was researching an artwork when she sat in on one of the society's monthly meetings at the Campbelltown Public Library.
She began researching drug use in the area, but in looking for information on the internet about hallucinations found "this amazing UFO stuff instead".
The result is Silent Boundary, pictured, an installation of projected light patterns that mimics those often cited by UFO spotters.
The work is included in C'Town Bling, at the new $10 million Campbelltown Arts Centre which opens this weekend.
The curator of C'Town Bling, Anne Loxley, said she hoped the exhibition, which runs until August 18, would disabuse many Sydneysiders of their prejudices about Campbelltown.
"People from the metropolitan centre better fang it down the M5," she said, laughing. "When you think of traipsing around the gallery tracks it would be great if people understand
that this is an important venue."
The Silent Boundary exhibit can be seen only from midnight to 3am in a gallery space with a huge window that fronts the Moore Oxley bypass, to give passers-by a Close Encounters
of the Third Kind experience.
Other works at the opening include Adam Cullen's satire in the form of a painting, Kmart Hillbillies, Ricky Swallow's iMan Prototypes (sculptures that morph from iMac computers
into skulls) and The Motel Sisters, a parody of the Hilton sisters.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/for-alien-experiences-try-campbelltown/2005/07/01/1119724815842.html?oneclick=true
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