SELECTED WORKS

LIAM O’BRIEN

Exhibition Dates: 23 October - 11 November 2015

Liam O’Brien places his body on the line in each of his angst ridden video works.  Whether dropping full beer bottles around his feet or drinking whisky to the point of nausea his confronting performances test the audience’s limits.

The sense of humour in O’Brien’s absurdist works only tends to heighten the impact of his pointless acts of defiant recklessness. With solid literary and art historical cred the irrational hands of absurdism and avant-garde performance of the 1960s and 70s touch these works. O’Brien’s spectacles of potential self harm and ritualistic tests of endurance reflect a broader sense of existential malaise.

CCAS Director David Broker said that “Liam is one of the most exciting video/performance artists working in Australia today. His work is sometimes like watching a train wreck, horrible, but its impossible to turn away. Liam has been selected as a finalist in the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award 2015 Campbelltown Art Centre, The Jeremy Hynes Award IMA, 2015 and winner of the Clayton Utz Art Award for emerging artists in September this year.

Image: Liam O’Brien Futility 2009