Postcard from Broken Hill & You

2004, 2005

Review: Dominique Angeloro, Sydney Morning Herald, Jan 28 2005

Allan Giddy's Postcard from Broken Hill consists of a large video projection of a dusty country landscape. Giddy has shot this dizzying footage from a speeding car, creating a blurred vision of the landscape.

It is accompanied by the revved-up sound of the hooning car as it maps out "doughnuts" in the dirt.

Giddy's installation is even fitted out with a stand of souvenir postcards featuring stills from the video.

The artist's second installation, You, comes charged with an unlikely sonic clash: a 1950s ballad and the crackling of truckie radio talk. A fragment of the swooning song has been slowed down and looped, providing the soundtrack for a video projection of an outback road steaming in the sun. A murder of crows gather on the tar, lunching on road kill.

Facing off with this mesmerising image is a satellite dish suspended from the ceiling. It replays random soundbites intercepted by a radio scanner.