DOMINIK MERSCH GALLERY is pleased to invite you to ‘The Body is a Big Place’, a new media installation commissioned by Performance Space, Sydney, opening on Thurs 3 Nov, 6-8pm.
www.performancespace.com.au/2011/body-is-a-big-place/

‘The Body is a Big Place’ is the result of a 2-year collaboration between artists Peta Clancy and Helen Pynor, with sound by Gail Priest and curation by Bec Dean. The exhibition explores organ transplantation with a particular focus on questions of personal identity and the blurred border between life and death in transplantation processes.

The installation includes a 5-channel video projection shot in the underwater environment of a swimming pool, performed by individuals who have had experiences of organ transplantation. In conjunction will be a heart perfusion system, where fresh pig hearts obtained from an abattoir will be reanimated in 2 special performances.

Congratulations to ANTHONY TERRENCE O'CARROLL. He has been awarded residence for July - August 2011 for the Moya Dyring Studio in the Cite Internationale des arts, Paris.

MARIANA VASSILEVA has been invited to participate at the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art later this year. She will show these two new works ('Selfmade' and 'In between'): http://dominikmerschgallery.com/Artist.aspx?id=68

HELEN PYNOR'S 'Liquid Ground 5' (http://dominikmerschgallery.com/Artist.aspx?id=41&img=957) has been short-listed for the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photographic Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, judged this year by Shaun Lakin. The opening and announcement of the Award winner is on April, 9, 2011, the exhibition is on from April, 10 to May, 22, 2011.

Congratulations to TIM JOHNSON. He's been awarded the $50,000 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, a biennal open painting prize awarded by BENDIGO ART GALLERY. The work 'Community Base', will be now acquired by the gallery. Please have a look at the work: http://dominikmerschgallery.com/artist.aspx?id=54&img=796

HELEN PYNOR's work 'Headache' is part of the 'Brainstorm' exhibition in London, UK. Please do read the article in the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jan/14/brainstorm-exhibition-brain-gv-art