Past Projects

Selected audio performance

Composition for dance & performance

Sound for Installation

Radio Works

Past Projects - Curation
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2007 / 2006 / 2005 / 2004 / 2003 / 2002

2010


Superdeluxe@Artspace

part of the Biennale of Sydney 2010

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Gail Priest interweaves dirty machinic rhythms, glassy cascades and sweet tortured vocals.

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Mandala Trap is Jeff Burch (Songs) & Paul Gough (Pimmon) in a duel of epic electronic layerings and shimmering guitar.

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Machine Death is Ben Byrne & Ivan Lisyak creating new wave sludgecore that’s so nasty it’s sublime.

July 3, 2010
Artspace - The Gunnery Building

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http://www.superdeluxe-artspace.com.au

photos Sam James (Priest image video still)

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2007

Circadian Rhythms

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Featuring: Tarab, Jim Denley & Gail Priest
Guest curator: Gail Priest

September 14, 2007
Artspace

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Immersion: Electrical Empathy

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ARTISTS/PRODUCERS Samuel James & Gail Priest
COLLABORATORS Cicada (Nick Ritar, Kirsten Bradley), Scott Morrison, Peter Newman, Jason Sweeney & Ai Yamamoto

June 11 - 16, 2007
Performance Space @ CarriageWorks

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2006

What Survives: sonic residues in breathing buildings

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Installation Artists: Alex Davies, Nigel Helyer, Jodi Rose
Sound Station Artists: Garry Bradbury, Joyce Hinterding, Aaron Hull, Somaya Langley, Sumugan Sivanesan, Amanda Stewart
Curated by Gail Priest

An exhibition exploring the real and imagined remnants of human presence in architecture. The structures we build bear silent witness to human behaviour—what have the walls, beams and girders absorbed and what sonic secrets can be coaxed back out of them? Does this ephemeral material influence the energy of the spaces we inhabit? Taking inspiration from Rilke What Survives explores the indestructibility of energy and its subsequent transformations and manifestations.

Performance Space Galleries
Sydney, March 24-April 15, 2006

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unNatural Selection

oribotics

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An exhibition of sculpture and installation driven or inspired by technology. The chosen works are experiments in re-creating and re-interpreting natural elements and environments through the most unnatural means. The works are animated, almost alive, responding to touch or presence, some sustaining themselves though their own feedback loops, offering different mediated environments for future fantasy habitation.

Artists: Melanie Foster, Matt Gardiner, Daniel Green, Robin Petterd, Jasper Streit
Curated by Gail Priest

Manning Regional Gallery
Taree, March 17-April 16, 2006

Image: Oribotics, Yatzek

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2005

Snagglespussy presents
e)scapes


escapes

A series of event in Sydney featuring performances by sound & audiovisual artists plus screenings of experimental video works.

Produced and curated by Gail Priest

# 1 - Winter edition
Into the tumult sent an alien sound*
Thurs June 23, 2005

# 2 - Spring edition
The heart was almost mine with which I felt
Thurs Sept 1, 2005

# 3 - Summer edition
So that the blood will laugh in our veins
Tues December 13 2005

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2004

d>Art.04 Sound

Sound exhibition for headphones featuring works by Vicky Brown, Ben Byrne, Tim Catlin, Takumi Endo (Japan), Kazumichi Grime & Anthony Guerra, Camilla Hannan, Gintas Kraptavicius (Lithuania), Jesper Norda (Sweden), Phillip Pietruschka, Matt Warren

June 17-27, 2004
dLux media|arts
, Sydney Opera House Exhibition Hall

Curated by Gail Priest

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AlternaTerraZones - Transmediale 04

Screening program curated by Gail Priest and Vicky Clare, drawn from the Electrofringe selection for Transmediale Fly Utopia festival. Gail also attended the festival to present the program.

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2003-4

Electrofringe

Gail Priest was a co-director of Electrofringe for the 2003/2004.

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Electrofringe is a festival of digital, electronic and new media arts. It is dedicated to unearthing emergent forms, highlighting nascent trends and encouraging young and emerging artists to further explore technology and its creative possibilities.

Electrofringe happens annually in the regional city of Newcastle and is part of the This Is Not Art Festival.

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2002-3

Hold on… and Sounds like

Sound exhibitions curated for the hold music of Performance Space
Curated by Gail Priest & Michaela Coventry

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Featuring: d.haines, Hydatid, Snagglepussy, Tim Koch, toydeath, mik la vage, djbc

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Featuring: Ai Yamamoto, Lawrence English, Boo Chapple, Rose Turtle-Ertler, Jasmin Guffond

Performance Space, 2002/2003

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