TRENT PARKE: PLEASE STEP QUIETLY EVERYONE CAN HEAR YOU
Sydney Opera House Western Boardwalk
22 October 2009 to 31 January 2010
The free exhibition, Please step quietly everyone can hear you, will open on
October 22 in time for Sydney Opera House's biggest-ever Open Day and will run
until January 31, 2010. Commissioned by Sydney Opera House, Parke spent four
weeks across 12 months as an artist in residence shooting behind the scenes.
Sydney Opera House Technical Director David Claringbold conceived the project
as a way to capture the magic of life backstage and showcase the sense of
community between the different workers at Bennelong Point. An architectural
masterpiece and Australian icon-Sydney Opera House is also a workplace. Behind
the grand operas and thousand of tourists, electricians set up lights,
stage-hands move props, performers eat their lunch in the Green Room and
people wait to let the final curtain fall. Parke has captured with frankness
and affection a side of the House few people have seen.
Alongside the free outdoor exhibition at Sydney Opera House, Stills Gallery
will display a selection of more than 60 images from October 29 to November
28.
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