ACMI and the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) join forces for the first time to present an unprecedented landmark national survey of the work at the edge of current artistic practice at Federation Square.
Unmatched in its scale and spanning the breadth of visual culture, 2004 includes the latest film, video, television, painting, networked media, sculpture, installation, photography, craft, design and fashion. This major exhibition showcases new work by more than 130 leading and emerging Australian artists.

Single channel video installation
“TAG”

ACMI Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Public Imaging Screens)

Curator:
Rhys Graham

Duration:
6 mins

A spectral study of a game of blind man’s bluff amongst a group of adult swingers, TAG is an impressionistic portrait of a prelude to an orgy. Shot entirely with a 1970’s tube video camera under murky lighting conditions, TAG’s smeared electric, almost monochromatic imagery deteriorates over the course of the piece - inviting the viewer into a visceral role of participant as members of the swingers group address the camera directly.

A portrait of sexualised ritual and play created to feel almost like a found artefact, TAG references overt Renaissance-era figurative tableau to speak to the self-reflexive nature of performed group sexuality in today’s sexual landscape.