Peter Newman
Paperhouse
PAPERHOUSE is an hour-long composed document of the sound and video practice of Australian artist Peter Newman, featuring material drawn from exhibitions, performances, screen works and installations between 2003 and 2007.:
-PART I-
FOLD - P.I.V. 8
THE 5.19
ROSEBUD
-PART II-
THE WAKING INSTANT
REPRIEVE
MESH - P.I.V. 7
FOLD - P.I.V. 8
His music is epic, sweeping digital post-rock, like My Bloody Valentine stretched,
twisted, filtered and layered into a dreamscape, the crackle of distortion
matching the constant flickering of his images, which suggest faces and
figures ... Perhaps this is what a near death experience might be like.
- Shannon O'Neill (RealTime +OnScreen)
THE 5.19
Newman's sound and moving image work ... takes Brakhage's experimental scratchings
onto film stock into an overblown trip of digital strobing on the border
of health risk warnings and bodily breakdown. A throwback to the psychedelic
light shows of the 60s, the work is seemingly torn between allegiance to
micro-processed Hendrix and the burning black nylon of Metzger's Auto-Destruction
Art.
- Ann Finnegan (Big Noise - catalogue)
ROSEBUD
"Set the controls for the heart of the sun." So
goes a line from an early Pink Floyd song. Set the controls within a range
of parameters and voyage inwards with the post-human eye of machinist vision.
Newman opens the blistering and white-hot intense micro worlds of his "Rosebud" from
expanding into the flames of the final frames of Welles' Citizen Kane.
You can't simply call it sampling; rather micromaniupulation which opens
worlds within worlds down through the layers of sound and image streams.
- Ann Finnegan (LOOP magazine)
THE WAKING INSTANT
"The Waking Instant" by
Peter Newman depicts an ominous night as tempestuous weather passes through
the Lower Blue Mountains. The spatio-temporality of the video imagery is
fragmented, layered and manipulated to conjure a vast dislocated landscape.
The unrelenting densely layered soundscapes of field recordings and synthesised
sounds heightens the consuming agitation. Together, the video and sound
create an impression of the landscape, of its frenetic energy, its fleeting
chaos and inherent overwhelming power.
- Sophia Kouyoumfjian (Explorations of Landscape - catalogue)
REPRIEVE
MESH - P.I.V. 7
Newman thanks the following contributors:
Kyle Ashpole, TIm Batson, Adrian Bertram, Monika Brooks, Simon Cavanough,
Tom Chandler, Matt Chaumont, Blake Freele, Sam Hughes, Matthew Johnston,
Wade Marynowsky, Emily Morandini, Tony Osbourne, John Newman, Kusum
Normoyle, Abram Powell, AIdan Roberts, Tony Schwensen, Sumugan Sivanesan,
Amanda Stewart, Clayton Thomas, Ruth Wells.
Review by Mitchell Whitelaw on his 'teeming void' blog
Review by Jean Poole on Skynoise
Review by Abram Powell for Loop magazine #4