Ian Haig works at the intersection of visual arts and media arts. His work explores the strangeness of everyday reality. His practice focuses on the themes of the human body, devolution, mutation, transformation and psychopathology, often through the lens of low cultural forms. Previous works have explored the toxicity of celebrity culture, the science fiction of sexuality, the degenerative and malign aspects of pervasive new technologies, to cultural forms of fanaticism and cults.
Over the years the trajectory of Haig's iconoclastic vision has encompassed everything from site-specific installation projects, super 8 movies, interactive sculpture, comics, noise music, to animations, videos, drawings, web projects, to large-scale gallery installations. His work has been exhibited in galleries and video/media festivals around the world. In 2003 he received a fellowship from the new media arts board of the Australia Council.
BA, 1987; MA 1998.
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Recent Solo Shows
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2011 - Chronicles of the new human organism, Centre for Contemporary photography, Melbourne
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2010 - Chronicles of the new human organism, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
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2007 - Zoso, Project Space gallery, RMIT, Melbourne, (with Philip Samartzis and DarrenTofts)
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2006 - The Dirt Factory, VCA gallery, Melbourne
Sick, Conical Gallery, Melbourne
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2005 - Flesh coloured plastic, Esa Jaske gallery, Sydney
Flesh coloured plastic, Spacement gallery, Melbourne
The Dirt Factory, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
Bimbo Laboratory, Cast gallery, Hobart
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2004 - Futurotica, Erotica LA, Los Angeles
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2003 - Human Aquatic Breeding Centre, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
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Recent Group Shows
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2011 - SEA2011, Istanbul, Turkey (forthcoming)
Tyger, Tyger, Westpace gallery, Melbourne (forthcoming)
Awfully Wonderful, Performance Space, Sydney
VideoRow, Torrance art museum, Los Angeles
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2010 - New media, Sex, and Culture in the 21st century, Museum of new Art, Detroit
Constellations: A Large number of Small drawings, RMIT gallery, Melbourne Canadian Pharmacy, Neon Parc, Melbourne
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2009 - The Shilo project, Ian Potter Museum of art, Melbourne
BODY, Project Space gallery, RMIT University, Melbourne
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2008 - Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo art gallery
The Bon Scott project, Fremantle arts centre, Perth
Lions never sleep, champions never cry, Satin Satan gallery, Chicago
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2007 - U-Turn, Glendale College Art gallery, Los Angeles
Living Elvis, RMIT gallery, Melbourne
Loose ends, Loose Projects, Sydney
Artist Makes Video, Art Rage Survey 1994-1998, Griffith University, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane
Animated, National Portrait gallery, Canberra (online exhibition)
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2006 - Eyes, Lies and Illusions, Australian Centre for the moving image, MelbourneSyn City, Dlux media arts, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney and National tour
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2005 - Substance, Blacklab Gallery, BrisbaneMutantric Love Hotel, Whitehouse Gallery, Brisbane
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2004 - Transmitter, European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany
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Curator
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2009 - Sleeper, a public art video project, in collaboration with City of greater Dandenong, Arts Victoria, and Public Art, school of art, RMIT
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2001 - Wet and Dry, (with Dominic Redfern) International Video Art Screening program, in association with The Centre For Contemporary Photography, Treasury Theatre, at Cinemedia Melbourne
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1998 - Mousetrap, video and animation programme as part of the 47th International Melbourne Film Festival
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Recent Grants
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2011 - Australia Council, Inter-Arts office grant
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2009 - Australia Council for the arts, music board – media arts
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2006 - City of Melbourne Arts grant (with Philip Samartzis and Darren Tofts)
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2004 - Arts Victoria, Arts development grantAustralia Council, New media arts board, presentation and promotion grant
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2002 - Australia Council, New media arts board, Fellowship
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Artist in residencies
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2008 - Australia Council, Visual arts board, studio residency, Los Angeles
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2006 - Asialink Studio residency, Ssamzie space, Seoul, Korea
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1999 - Australia Council, Visual Arts/Craft board, studio residency, Tokyo, Japan
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Recent Publications
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2011 - Book chapter, Goo goo muck, inter-disciplinary press, UK
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2009 - Sputnik Baby, Fibrecultuture Journal, No.14, What Now ?: Materiality, Recombination and Remix
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2006 - You’re just dirt, (catalogue essay) The Dirt Factory Melbourne
Art as a pathology (text for exhibition) Sick, Melbourne
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2005 - Bowel media, paper, Vital Signs Conference, Australian Centre for the moving image, Melbourne
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2003 - All things hybrid, recombinant and mutant, OnScreen, Realtime, No. 58, Dec – Jan
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Other
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2011 - Paper, That strange feeling, ISEA2011, Istanbul, Turkey
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2010 - Speaker, Video Void, Centre for Contemporary photography, Melbourne
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2009 - Paper, Cool video dude, Nomad, new media art scoping conference, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
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2007 - Paper, The human transformation project - cult cinema and art, Cine Excess conference London, UK
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2006 - Paper, Showing the unshowable: a re-reading of the films of David Cronenberg; Subversive Re/Viewing: Readings, Communities, Practices, Conference, University of Gloucestershire, UK
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2005 - Paper, My Hugh Hefner sex machine fantasy came true, Culture Fix conference, University of Technology, Sydney
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