Grant Priest, CAN, 2023, film still
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Grant Priest, CAN, 2023, film still
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CAN is a new film by Tāmaki Makaurau based artist Grant Priest, screening in Enjoy's artist cinema.
A single channel film, CAN explores the individualistic and competitive nature of mass-motoring. The film questions the way the car and the camera support a cult of rugged individualism and unprincipled opportunism.
Composed of a series of long-takes framed by the rearview window of a vehicle traveling between spaces of surveillance and lawlessness. CAN assumes the view of the unwitting yet complicit passenger, taken for a ride along highways and country roads without origin or destination.
Grant Priest (b.1991, Whanganui, Aotearoa) is a current Doctoral candidate at Elam School of Fine Arts in Tāmaki Makaurau.
His practice has developed in response to issues of categorization, boundaries and surveillance using the infrastructure of mass-motoring, prisons, schools and media as material manifestations of these ideas. His work responds to issues of rugged individualism and personal-responsibility maintained by this infrastructure.
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- Wednesday - Friday, 11am - 6pm
- Saturdays, 11am - 4pm
Address
- 211 Left Bank
- Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
CAN is a new film by Tāmaki Makaurau based artist Grant Priest, screening in Enjoy's artist cinema.
A single channel film, CAN explores the individualistic and competitive nature of mass-motoring. The film questions the way the car and the camera support a cult of rugged individualism and unprincipled opportunism.
Composed of a series of long-takes framed by the rearview window of a vehicle traveling between spaces of surveillance and lawlessness. CAN assumes the view of the unwitting yet complicit passenger, taken for a ride along highways and country roads without origin or destination.
Grant Priest (b.1991, Whanganui, Aotearoa) is a current Doctoral candidate at Elam School of Fine Arts in Tāmaki Makaurau.
His practice has developed in response to issues of categorization, boundaries and surveillance using the infrastructure of mass-motoring, prisons, schools and media as material manifestations of these ideas. His work responds to issues of rugged individualism and personal-responsibility maintained by this infrastructure.
