Brisbane Exhibitions: "The Same River Twice Part 1" at the Institute of Modern Art until Feb 28 2009

"The Same River Twice Part 1" is an exhibition at the Institute of Modern Art, at the Judith Wright Centre on Brunswick St in the Valley. It's about historical re-enactment in art.

The main features are:

• Gerard Byrne's film of a restaging of a Playboy roundtable discussion on new sexual lifestyles.

• Jeremy Deller's re-enactment of the Battle of Orgreave, when striking miners were attacked by police in the 1984-5 Miners' Strike in UK.

• Thomas Demand's photos of his paper sculptures designed to look like reality:

• Pierre Huyghe's The Third Memory, where John Wotjtowicz re-eneacts his bank robbery which was the basis for the Al Pacino film Dog Day Afternoon:

the third memory, (huyghe),
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• Slave Pianos, who take music written by artists and turn it into sheet music to be played by a robot.

The Same River Twice Part 1 is on until February 28th 2009.

EDIT: It's closed for Christmas holidays right now, it will be open again on Monday January 12th 2008.

The Institute of Modern Art is in the Judith Wright Centre at 420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley, on the corne of Berwick St (click here for a Google Map)

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