The Pantagruel Syndrome by Francesco Bonami

Moore has participated in numerous group exhibitions and biennales, including the 16th and 19th Biennale of Sydney the Busan Biennale T1: The Pantagruel Syndrome, Turin Triennale, co-curated by Francesco Bonami and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea among others. He is a winner of the Anne Landa Award for Video and New Media Arts at the Art Gallery of NSW and a recipient of the Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship. Career highlights include a survey show TV Moore’s Rum Jungle at Campbelltown Arts Centre and the solo museum show With Love & Squalor at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.

Moore’s work has been nationally and internationally recognised. He meshes history and mythology, exploring the individual in the context of group ritual and thinking. Using psychological space, in narrative and non-narrative structures, Moore's work seeks out stories within stories. Since this time, his practice has been characterised by fervent experimentation, as well as formal and conceptual innovations that critically considered technology and methodologies across high and low culture. Moore emerged as part of a generation of artists who pioneered a new wave of video art in Australia in the early 2000s. He received his MFA from CalArts in 2006.

TV Moore ( Timothy Vernon Moore) works across a range of media, including video, painting, sculpture, installation, photography, animation and theatrical forms. Some archives are important to re visit and reimagine. Unconsciously, I knew this work wasn’t finished – I knew the words could protest another moment. It felt odd to me to consider how many people have those words as the last words in their mouths. I remember thinking about war, plan crashes and the Book of Revelation.

He was preaching to a country that mistook itself for the promised land, telling them they would get there soon. Here was a citizen preacher – a stand-in for salvation – singing against the world. The country was less divided than it is now, but I can’t shake the déjà vu.Īt the time, I thought about a country whose faith in itself had grown tragic. America was flailing, mired in the foreign wars it had started. It is the time to look at everything that led to now and ask: What did I miss? This work, Apocatopia vol 1, was made in Los Angeles during US President George W.

The Pantagruel Syndrome by Francesco Bonami