2007
Presented in association with IMA, Brisbane. 

This catalogue presents the new multi-media installation VOX by acclaimed Australian art/film/music hero Phillip Brophy at Gertrude Contemporary in 2007. This project is a co–production with the IMA in Brisbane and was run in conjunction with a significant survey exhibition of his work at the IMA, and a major publication covering all aspects of his prolific career.

VOX can be seen as sexualised visualization of the ‘Romantic Comedy’ Film and TV genre in which there is nothing particularly ‘romantic’ or ‘comedic’, and upon which gender difference precariously pivots. The work is centred on how (heterosexual) lovers communicate to each other, and as Brophy describes “VOX’s visceral sexual symbolism flays and splays the lovers’ gendered insecurities into a splattering of one gender-type onto the other… VOX shapes itself as a guttural script born from the merger of a ‘dick flick’ and a ‘chick flick.’”

This major new work utilized experimental synching and animation technology, and builded on many of Brophy’s projects such as the Anne Landa nominated installation THE BODY MALLEABLE (2006), as well as EVAPORATED MUSIC 2 (2005), and FLUORESCENT (2005).