Dr Laresa Kosloff lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. Her PhD titled Slapstick tactics: Staging a Performance of Mimesis in Contemporary Video Art was a comparative study of early cinematic slapstick and performative video art. She has been actively involved in artist run spaces in Melbourne since 1996, and was a founding committee member of Grey Area Art Space Inc. (1996 - 1999); coordinator at Penthouse & Pavement gallery (2001 - 2002); and a committee member of CLUBS Project inc. (2004 - 2008).
Ph.D 2011; MFA 2007; BA Hons. (Painting) 1995.
Kosloff’s practice incorporates a range of approaches to making including Super 8 film, choreographed video works, hand drawn animation, installation, drawing and performance. Recent artworks explore the figure in relation to form; slapstick meets high-end abstraction. Kosloff is interested in how movement, gesture and abstraction translate into significance. Central interests include the body in relation to systems aspiring to purity, including abstraction, geometry, architecture, sport and the trained body. Kosloff uses humour and the absurd to manipulate and expose mythologies of autonomy, for example, central to her choreographed video works is an interest in the subtle and ongoing influence of aspects of modernism, imbedded in our relationship to formal, cultural and historical narratives.
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Solo Exhibitions
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- PhD examination, School of Art gallery, RMIT University, 2010
- Sensible World, Artspace, Sydney, 2009
- Relative Straightness, Neon Parc gallery, Melbourne, 2008
- Solidarity for a metaphysic, Mirka at Tolarno Hotel, ACCA, Melbourne, 2008
- New Diagonal, Ocular Lab, Melbourne, 2007
- Deep & Shallow, Studio 13, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, 2004
- Feeling for You, TCB Gallery Inc. Melbourne, 2002
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Curated Group Exhibitions
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- ACCA Pop Up Program, 54th Venice Biennale, 2011
- Social Sculpture, Anna Schwartz gallery, Sydney, 2011
- The Green Text (collaboration with Andy Thomson) as part of Art#2, commissioned by ACCA, Melbourne
- Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon: The 4th Auckland Triennial, 2010
- In Which the Wind is also a Protagonist, La générale, Sèvres, France, 2010
- Multiplicities, University of Queensland Art Museum, Queensland, 2010
- COLOUR light TIME, curated by Dr David Thomas, Two Rooms gallery, Auckland, 2010
- Still Vast Reserves, Magazinno D’Arte Moderna, Rome, 2009
- What I think about when I think about dancing, Campbelltown Arts Centre, NSW, 2009
- Ecstatic City Multiplex Program, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2008
- New ’06, ACCA, Melbourne, 2006
- Truth Universally Acknowledged, ACCA, Melbourne, 2005
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Awards
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- New Work grant, Australia Council for the Arts, 2008
- Australian Post Graduate Award, 2004
- Run_Way emerging artists travel grant, Australia Council for the Arts, 2004
- Australia Council Studio, New York, 2002
- Studio residency, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, 2002
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Publications
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- Jon Bywater, 4th Auckland Triennial, review, Artforum magazine (Summer 2010), p. 374-75, 2010
- Allan Smith, A Kinaesthesia of Hope in an Age of Incalculables of Making Small Differences in a Global Political Economy, Art New Zealand, #134, 2010
- Andy Thomson, catalogue essay, Last ride in a hot air balloon: The 4th Auckland Triennial, 2010
- Emily Cormack, Alexie Glass-Kantor, Chris Sharp, catalogue essay’s, Still Vast Reserves Two, 2010
- Anthony Gardiner, Of time and the body, article, Column 5, pub. Artspace Visual Arts Centre Ltd. 2010
- Olivia Barrett, catalogue essay, Art #1, Wangarrata Exhibitions Gallery Victoria, p. 18-19, 2010
- Reuben Keehan, Double Agents: Complication in recent performance, article, Art & Australia, Vol. 47, 2009, p. 149-53
- Jacqueline Millner, A return to vulnerability, Realtime magazine, review, Issue #91, 2009, p. 50
- Looking Out, exhibition catalogue, Macquarie University, Sydney, 2008, p. 36 – 41
- Liza Vasiliou, Spirit & Muscle, catalogue essay, NEW ’06, ACCA, Melbourne, 2006 p.10-15
- Juliana Engberg, Make it Modern, catalogue essay, ACCA, Melbourne, 2005
- Rebecca Coates, Louise Adler, Truth Universally Acknowledged, catalogue essays, ACCA, 2005
- Philip Watkins, Fellow Anthropoid, catalogue essay, CAST gallery, Hobart, 2005
- Lily Hibberd, Making a knob of oneself, UN magazine, issue #2, 2005, p.9 – 11
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