TV Moore Magick Without Tears

TV Moore, Magick Without Tears 2007, digital video, 7.13 mins, ratio: 4:3 © TV Moore 2007

Magick Without Tears is a project that speaks of the very structure of video editing and manipulation. Continuing my interest in the outsider and the fusion of the real with the unreal, I chose the symbol of a Clown as a stand-in for a quiet discontent that represents the undercurrent of societal anarchism.

In times passed, clowns represented a freedom that was rarely granted in society, they could subvert authority and mock the rule of the day by blaspheming the very system in which they operated.

By setting up a single scene and recording it through the gaze of several cameras I am attempting to exploit reality and truth and expose these tropes as bizarre documented fact, just as the media represents images of truth, that are obviously distorted.

The strange rhythm of the melancholic and almost broken drumming, in tandem with the cuts become trance like, which is a dark salute to the very seductive and manipulative inner structures of commercial moving image culture.

...Just keep watching...

The drummer plays his instrument with nonchalance, a comedy / tragedy - taking place in an unfamiliar make-shift universe. Two realities are being reinforced here while an unorthodox performance unfolds.

TV Moore, artist statement, 2007

TV Moore is based in both Sydney and Los Angeles. He has participated in numerous national and international exhibitions at museums and galleries. He will be participating in the 2008 Sydney Biennale. TV Moore is represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney,

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TV Moore

is an artist based in Sydney and Los Angeles. TV Moore works with film, video and theatrics. His practice engages in a variety of material using varied tropes from the cinema and experimental film worlds.

Bizarre fact, distorted fictions and histories, psychological space, performance, narrative and non-narrative technique all occupy Moore's gaze.

He is interested in the space between the documentary and the directed, the real and the unreal.

TV has participated in numerous national and international exhibitions at museums and gallery's such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymoth, New Zealand, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, Iaspis, Stockholm, Sweden, Contemporary Art Space, Osaka, Japan, CAC in Lithuania, Zacheta National Gallery of Art/Warsaw, The first Torino Triennale at the Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Italy, curated by Caroline Christov-Bakargiev and Francesco Bonami., Tokyo wonder site,Japan amongst others. His work was also chosen for the ART/Film section of the 2006 Basel Art fair in Basel Switzerland.

TV Moore is a recipient of the Sally and Don Lucas Artist Fellowship, USA, and Samstag International Art Scholarship. TV Moore has a BVA from the Sydney College of The Arts and an MFA from the Californian Institute of the Arts, USA.