Alannah Brown: Drink your Medicine | Karin Hofko: On & On: The Rotating Video Collection

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Alannah Brown was born and raised in Clyde, Central Otago. Drink your Medicine combines nostalgia for an idyllic rural upbringing with the hard realities of farming and growing up. “Drink your medicine” is the forceful command given to a child by a parent who knows what is best. The farmer, however, is driven not so much by compassion but the need to produce healthy livestock in order to earn a living. After all at the end of the day the animals will usually be sold or slaughtered and it is best not to form emotional attachments. Brown’s paintings combine to create a disconcerting body of work. The viewer is pulled in different directions, experiencing guilt/pleasure, delight/disgust, attraction/repulsion, familiarity/ unfamiliarity, fantasy/fiction.

Karin Hofko (aka KIR ROYAL) is an experimental German media artist currently living in New Zealand. Hofko’s rotating video installation began as Hofko explains with rhythm “as I play the drums I realised that there were a lot of possibilities to change the order of a repeating structure in a video sequence.” Hofko edited and remixed existing and original video footage to experiment with filmic conventions of time, structure and pace.