“Creep Hole”
Shaun Kirby
30 Mar → 21 Apr 2007

Creep Hole is to be read against the repressive registers of the present, the ideological underpinnings of which are so reliant on ‘phantasmal’ forms of deceit and avoidance. The 3 primary pieces ( Back Door Hole, Front Door Hole and A Little Bit Norman ) are developments in a project to re-envision the Bates house from Psycho according to the US Government’s FEMA manual for hardening buildings against conventional, biological, nuclear and chemical attack.

Shaun Kirby is a Melbourne-based artist whose work most recently featured in the major survey show Interesting Times at the MCA in Sydney and in Random Access at the McClelland Sculpture Gallery. He completed a second Masters Degree at Amsterdam’s Sandberg Institute on a Samstag International Art Scholarship, where his research centred on the relationships between the built environment and memory (both social and singular) and the production and experience of social space.