Nightfall
Maker
Sriwhana Spong
Production date
2005
Description
This work won first prize at the Trust Waikato Contemporary Art Award in 2005. The artist uses an excerpt from the script of Wes Craven's ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ to amplify the odd dreamlike state in her work:
GLEN (CONTD) You ever read about the Balinese way of dreaming?
NANCY No.
GLEN They got a whole system they call 'dream skills'. So, if you have a nightmare, for instance like falling, right?
NANCY Yeah.
GLEN Instead of screaming and getting nuts, you say, okay, I'm gonna make up my mind that I fall into a magic world where I can get something special, like a poem or song. (grins hopefully) They get all their art literature from dreams. Just wake up and write it down. Dreamskills.
Sriwhana Spong (1979- ) was born in Auckland and is of mixed Balinese descent. She graduated from Elam School of Fine Art in 2001. Since graduating Spong’s work has been exhibited throughout Australasia and more recently in the USA and Europe. In 2007 she completed a residency at Artspace Sydney, and in 2008 she participated in the ISCP Studio Residency Program in New York.
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Object detail
125 x 142 x 8mm (case DVD copy)
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