“Tyger! Tyger! Project 5”
Philip Brophy, Cassandra Tytler, Emile Zile and Johann Rashid
16 Nov → 8 Dec 2012
For the fifth iteration of Tyger! Tyger!, Philip Brophy collaborated with filmmakers Cassandra Tytler, Emile Zile and Johann Rashid to write a surround sound score for three new short film projects. The three films in the series are Johann Rashid’s The Man Who Folded Himself, Cassandra Tytler’s Messed Up Pop Song and Emile Zile’s Jack.
While it is customary for score composers to work to the rough edit of a film, for the Tyger! Tyger! films Philip worked in an unusual way. He first read the script and engaged in detailed conversation with the writer/directors. He then created a film score for each work prior to the film being either shot or edited.
Tyger! Tyger! comprises six new artwork commissions curated by Phip Murray.
Philip Brophy's work constitutes reworking pre-existing media, composing film, music and soundscapes, mixing, mastering, installing and presenting audiovisual work in surround sound environments. Brophy’s eclectic practice ranges from early musical experimentation, underground performances of deconstructed disco, to reconstructed soundscapes for rock video clips and new original scores for Japanese anime.
Cassandra Tytler is an artist working with video, performance and installation. Her work explores contemporary cultural iconography and the idealised (un)realities that exist within it. She is particularly fascinated by the symbolism of popular clichés, and her work pastiches isolated and fragmented cultural conventions and shapes them into revealing stories or situations. Tytler is interested in the mechanics of performance and representation. She performs the roles in her videos as herself and herself-as-cultural-stereotype, highlighting the artificial and burlesque nature of the characters she represents. She pushes her performances so that they become a ‘theatre of performance’ – an allusion to the absurdity of the cultural roles we ‘play’ and are played for us in the theatre of life. Tytler’s work is playful and humorous and, at times, absurd but it is also an ongoing examination of masquerade and mimicry, and a personal interaction where she plays at becoming something ‘other’ than herself. She is particularly interested in gender construction (both male and female) in popular culture and represents gender as elastic and unrealistic.
Emile Zile's multifaceted practice examines the effects of the mediation of experience through communications technology. Building on a background of live and single-channel video, his work utilises site-specific performance, portraiture and filmmaking to capture the traces of humanity inscribed on the physical remnants of a digital culture.
Johann Rashid is an artist working in video, performance and sculpture. His practice explores magic, illusion and truth, and the tension between immersion, documentation and elusive moments.
