Exhibitions  /  Peter Kennedy
‘Inhibodress Tapes’

In the screening room we are exhibiting Peter Kennedy's Inhibodress Tapes (1970), which is widely understood to be the first video artwork to be made in Australia. This suite of performances for camera were made when the Japanese video company Akai gave Kennedy a camera to experiment with in 1970. In addition to being the first video work made on this continent, these works could also be understood to be the earliest examples of body art recorded in Australia. This presentation marks the beggining of a series of exhibitions bringing under-recognised conceptual artworks into the contemporary discourse.