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The 2009 B.E.S.T Contemporary Art Prize For Painting MOP PROJECTS Artist Talks: 22/11/09
 Image: Emma Thomson, Ray, 2009, Lambda print, 92cm x 73 cm
I want something special I want something special, generally was the response Emma Thomson received from models applying to her advertisement ‘Models Wanted’. This ongoing series of finding models in local papers, probes into peoples private lives and asks what they desire from life. Couples, single men, young girls and aspiring models offer themselves to the camera in search of something special. The models bring their own agendas to the photographs, collaborating with the photographer, they perform for the camera. Emma Thomson completed her Honours degree at the National Art School in 2008. She has exhibited in a number of national group exhibitions and held two solo shows in Sydney. She has won several prizes including the Storrier Onslow NAS Paris Studio Residency, the Joel Corrigan Memorial Prize for Photography awarded by Pat Corrigan and this year her work was included in the National Photographic Portrait Prize, Canberra. This is her first show at MOP.
This exhibition is supported by the Janet Holmes a Court Artists' Grant Scheme. The Janet Holmes a Court Artists' Grant is a NAVA initiative, made possible through the generous sponsorship of Mrs Janet Holmes a Court and through the support of the Visual Arts Board, Australia Council for the Arts.
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Image: Jai McKenzie, The Machine Stops, 2009. (video still) EINSTEINS FORMULA DETERMINATION INDIVIDUAL SPECIFICS RELATIVITY READS QUOTE ENERGY EQUALS MASS TIMES THE SPEED OF LIGHT SQUARED UNQUOTE SPEED OF LIGHT IDENTICAL SPEED ALL RADIATION COSMIC GAMMA X ULTRA VIOLET INFRA RED RAYS ETCETERA ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY SIX THOUSAND MILES PER SECOND WHICH SQUARED IS TOP OR PERFECT SPEED GIVING SCIENCE A FINITE VALUE FOR BASIC FACTOR IN MOTION UNIVERSE STOP SPEED OF RADIANT ENERGY BEING DIRECTIONAL OUTWARD ALL DIRECTIONS EXPANDING WAVE SURFACE DIAMETRIC POLAR SPEED AWAY FROM SELF IS TWICE SPEED IN ONE DIRECTION AND SPEED OF VOLUME INCREASE IS SQUARE OF SPEED IN ONE DIRECTION APPROXIMATLEY THIRTY FIVE BILLION VOLUMETRIC MILES PER SECOND STOP FORMULA IS WRITTEN QUOTE LETTER E FOLLOWED BY EQUATION MARK FOLLOWED BY LETTER M FOLLOWED BY LETTER C FOLLOWED CLOSELY BY ELEVATED SMALL FIGURE TWO SYMBOL OF SQUARING UNQUOTE ONLY VARIABLE IN FORMULA IS SPECIFIC MASS SPEED IS A UNIT OF RATE WHICH IS INTEGRATED RATIO OF BOTH TIME AND SPACE AND NO GREATER RATE OF SPEED THAN THAT PROVIDED BY ITS CAUSE WHICH IS PURE ENERGY LATENT OR RADIANT IS ATTAINABLE STOP THE FORMULA THEREFORE PROVIDES A UNIT AND A RATE OF PERFECTION TO WHICH THE RELATIVE IMPERFECTION OR INEFFICIENCY OF ENERGY RELEASE IN RADIANT OR CONFINED DIRECTION OF ALL TEMPORAL SPACE PHENOMENA MAY BE COMPARED BY ACTUAL CALCULATION STOP SIGNIFICANCE STOP SPECIFIC QUALITY OF ANIMATES IS CONTROL WILLFUL OR OTHERWISE OF RATE AND DIRECTION ENERGY RELEASE AND APPLICATION NOT ONLY OF SELF MECHANISM BUT OF FROM SELF MACHINE DIVIDED MECHANISMS AND RELATIVITY OF ALL ANIMATES AND INANIMATES IS POTENTIAL OF ESTABLISHMENT THROUGH EINSTEIN FORMULA BUCKY Telegram sent from Buckminster Fuller to Isamu Noguchi, 1936.
 Image: Harriet Body, Mix Media, May 2009 (Video Still) WALL 2 Mix Media Mix Media is a video, a performance and a painting. Harriet blends these three artistic forms to present a visceral process of synonymous creation and destruction. Harriet Body is a young Sydney-based video and performance artist, currently in her final year of studies at the College of Fine Arts. She has been a Committee member of MOP Projects since September 2008. She exhibited her work for the first time in a group exhibition of performance at Serial Space in October last year. Since then she has shown at an exhibition for women identifying artists at Kudos, and will be exhibiting the beginnings of her current ‘Spy Piece’ project at the COFA Annual in November this year. ‘Spy Piece’ is the working title for a year long durational project in which Harriet uses spy camera’s to survey and document her surroundings, she will graduate from the COFA with a Bachelor in Fine Arts in November this year.
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