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Pipilotti Rist and her Worry will vanish revelation exhibition





The Pipilotti Rist’s ‘Worry will vanish revelation’ is an immersive exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra from 11 March to 20 August 2017.

The is a lie-down or sit-down experience in a large space with soft cushions – also called the ‘moment of now’ experience. The exhibition is designed to allow visitors to absorb the surroundings through sight and sound. The sequencing of hyper-visuals take the viewer on a journey both inside the human body and across the skin, and amongst the micro-cosmos of nature. The soundscape is a rhythmic, whirring pulse created by Anders Guggisberg.



Swiss born artist Pipilotti Rist (1962-) is fascinated with the moving image. Since the late 1980s she has experimented with video and film, making her name with works such as I’m not the girl who misses much (1986) and Pour your body out (2008-09) exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Worry will vanish revelation is the artist’s most recent large-scale moving image work. Over the last 15 years, Rist has moved from single-channel to multi-channel works, creating large-scale immersive environments that merge image, sound, and scenario-specific props.

In the development of Worry will vanish revelation, Rist has adopted ‘autogenic training’ – physical exercises in combination with repeated visualisations – developed in the 1930s by psychiatrist Johannes Heinrich Schultz. The concept of ‘re-positioning’ her audience from standing to lying down is aimed at encouraging a relaxed position, and subsequently lulling them into a meditative state.

The audio video installation exhibition projected onto two walls with four projectors includes the carpet, doonas (cushions), and sound, lasting for 10:25 minutes.

















MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the author of:- The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).


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