Pseudo

An important Brisbane based performance and media event in 1995, featuring some Brisbane's then emerging, and more established artists - many of whom had or went on to develop important careers. The event was curated by Keith Armstrong and co-curated by the late Jeremy Hynes.  At the time it was billed playfully as "PSEUDO - Something just clicked - a tedium free, audience-aware multimedia interactive performance event" and a "dimly concealed information super hype-way expose, that sets out to challenge the 'interactive generation myth', live at the Princess Theatre for two unforgettable, captivating and thought-provoking Brisbane Festival Fringe nights". {Keith Armstrong: Pseudo Curator, program notes,1995}

The entire event featured  live performances from - Keith Armstrong (Uncertain Circle) (sound Andrew Brown), Jeremy Hynes (The Man who Fell to Earth), Georgie Pinn (X-Cess), Geoffrey Schmidt + the Rayboys (Hum if You Don’t Know the Words), John Tonkin (Inhabit the Meat of Your Body) Kominos Zervos (Cyberpoetry), Nalder-Milani-Benner Coop (Sssh), Jeremy Hynes + Craig Walsh (feat. Dave Parry), (The Head), plus video art & other artforms from Gordon Bennett (Performance with object for the expiation of guilt - Violence and grief remix), Nick Zurbrugg (Duke of Earl), Paul Brown (Today’s TV Guide), Wendy Mills (Rose-Bite), Marie Biggins (Mind the Gap) &  Brian and Joel Murray (Super Mega II).

The video (see above), originally shot on miniDV format video tape, was restored in 1995, and shows either full takes or in some cases shorter snippets from the following program events: Keith Armstrong (Uncertain Circle), Jeremy Hynes (The Man who Fell to Earth), Georgie Pinn (X-Cess), Geoffrey Schmidt + the Rayboys (Hum if You Don’t Know the Words), John Tonkin (Inhabit the Meat of Your Body) Kominos Zervos (Cyberpoetry), Nalder-Milani-Benner Coop (Ssssssh), Craig Walsh (feat. Dave Parry), (The Head), plus video art & other artforms from Gordon Bennett (Performance with object for the expiation of guilt - Violence and grief remix), Wendy Mills (Rose-Bite), Rodolphe Blois & Marie Biggins (Mind the Gap).