Emile Zile

Liquid Cooled: new works by Emile Zile April 26 – June 14, every day 6 – 11 PM LI-MA Media Art Platform, Amsterdam http://www.li-ma.nl/site/news/liquid-cooled-new-works-emile-zile

Desktops solo show and performance Fort Delta Melbourne 5 – 21 November 2015 For his exhibition Desktops at Fort Delta, Zile further explores our attraction to communications technology and their ability to translate and encode our lived experience through a series of assemblages, constructed from office furnishings and other objects related to white-collar labour, self-help …

‘Put Up a Signal’ residency and group show Performance 21 November 2014 at Ruang MES, Indonesia 56 Participating artists: Alfi a.k.a Setro Gondo Mayit, Greatest Hits, Agan Harahap, Yusuf Ismail, Oliver van der Lugt, Eugenia Lim, Rowan McNaught, Sean Peoples, Eldwin Pradipta, Wok the Rock and Emile Zile. Curated by Agung Nugroho Widhi, Akiq AW …

Experimental Universe Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 6 February 2014, 6:00-9:00pm Experimental Universe is a program of events featuring films, music and performances created by Australian artists responding to Yoko Ono’s rarely-visited instructional works, Six Film Scripts (1964) and Imaginary Film Series (1968). Running over two nights (6 February and 13 February) the program also …

I am a monk. I am a tourist. Within the street I see the stage for every human conflict and negotiation. Specifically for this video I was interested in contrasting the buddhist principles of mindfullness, meditation, removing yourself from time to the act of photography, grasping for permanence, embalming a moment. The last shot of …

Post Studio Practice, 2013 2K HD video, 1.35 minutes. Camera and cut: Emile Zile Screenings: Screen Space Melbourne, 14 March – 26 April 2014. http://screenspace.com.au/screenspace.html

Emile Zile’s film focuses on a figure lost, or purposely drifting through, the light industrial non-site of suburban Footscray. Footscray acts here as a non-site that could be almost anywhere: Queens in New York or Salford in Manchester. The figure we follow emerging from a crepuscular time is recognisably ubiquitous the world over – a …

DVD Burner (NIMk) was a solo performance commissioned by the Netherlands Media Art Institute to mark it’s last event before funding cuts forced it to amalgamate with Smart Project Space Amsterdam. A site-specific work inviting audience members to reflect a laser beam of light around the room using DVD discs gathered from the extensive and historical video …

Cinema-based solo audiovisual performance that extracts the subtitle track from three King Kong films (1933, 1976, 2005) and recombines them within one frame. A live sound mix is performed to create a compressed version of the one narrative over multiple epochs. A feature-length re-encoding of the scripts based on chance and narrative conventions. Performances: Färgfabriken, …

Wednesday November 30 2011, Open Archive Melbourne Thanks to Jared Davis, Helen Grogan, Lara Thoms, Ry David Bradley Photography by Jo Duck With his history of performances that engage with popular culture and consumer technology Emile Zile recently premiered OMG_Sisyphus. The Greek mythology of Sisyphus, a tale of burden and absurdity, is used as a …

*best*RapidEssayNSFW!! is a live video essay by Amsterdam-based Australian artist Emile Zile. It uses online and prepared video sources from YouTube, 24hour news streams, scientific trials, viral marketing blips, social software and monologues by .com-era cult leaders to weave an audiovisual portrait of contemporary culture and its acceleration of signs. As a live performance, *best*RapidEssayNSFW!! …

Diane Tanzer Gallery + Projects Melbourne April 2-23 2011 Urzsula Dawkins review in Realtime 103 ‘Signalling, not clowning’ Philip Brophy catalogue essay ‘Ego Logos & Euclidean Cum Shots‘ Original audio by Adam Milburn Emile Zile’s Five Production Company Logos In 3D presents an imaginary ‘real man’ behind these grandiose charades born of selfimportant declaration. Just …

Compaction and compression of the guitar solo, Mouth microphone channeling the eternal guitar solo, noise and liberation, freedom and egotism. Presenting a metaphorical exorcism of the guitar solo. A channelling of the guitar solos delivered to audiences at Amsterdam’s iconic live music venue Paradiso. 18 September 2009, http://www.paradiso.nl Live sound mix by Danny O’Really Photographs …

‘Emile’s Post-It ™ Kino is the abject reality of what cinema has become – or more precisely, how it has reduced itself to such a state through trumpeting the power of ‘the script’. His performances are part-pitch, part-direction, part-analysis, part-expose, part-revival, part-review. His faux-Power Point ™ presentation – playing film music to a DVD screen …

‘Zile is chosen as a contestant on The Price is Right. He comes-on-down, gliding and shuffling. He shrugs, waves his hands, twitches and finishes up on stage, generating a series of movements that range in possible interpretation from ‘right on’ to ‘wow’ and then well beyond meaning. Host Larry Emdur can’t talk, he can only …