Top left: Nina Levitt. Top right: Kelly Richardson. Bottom: Nelly-Eve Rajotte.
I have recently curated Otherworldly, a short programme of videos for the public screen in Federation Square in Melbourne, Australia. The programme screens daily from now until 3 August 2007. Featuring the work of Nina Levitt (CA), Nelly-Ève Rajotte (CA), and Kelly Richardson (UK), Otherworldly takes viewers on a journey through spaces that are at once familiar and alien. Nelly-Ève Rajotte’s piece, Valo, explores a mysterious interior which is reminiscent of a sterile control room. In Comrade Valentina, Nina Levitt considers not only the bravery but also the charisma of the first woman in space. Kelly Richardson’s Exiles of the Shattered Star is a contemplative piece in which we witness the beauty that results from destruction. The screen itself is in a sweeping public square which rises above street level and offers views of the Yarra River and the city, and is surrounded by futuristic buildings clad in a fractal façade of zinc, glass and sandstone.