DRIFTING TO UTOPIA
“Drifting to Utopia” was the first edit of two versions created for the Biennale of Contemporary Art 2019, Universal Data at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary art, Alita/ Byblos, Lebanon. In commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights. Stephen Copland (Artworks and concept) and Pierre Laba Sarkis (editor and sound)
Interview with artist Stephen Copland
2009 Interview with artist Stephen Copland discussing his exhibition Raft-The Drifting Border at Macquarie University Art Gallery. Film by Fabian Astore in the artist's studio at Macmasters Beach.
LOST IN SPACE
Stephen Copland & Pierre Laba Sarkis (Australia) 1st Video Contest
STEPHEN COPLAND ARTIST
Stephen Copland Artist talks about the inspiration behind his Migration Series artwork. Part of the collection has been donated by Stephen to the newly opened Diaspora House and Museum in Batroun Lebanon.
DRIFTING TO ACCESS
The animation video, “Drifting to access” created for the Biennale of Contemporary Art 2019, Universal Data at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary art, Alita/ Byblos, Lebanon.
Julia’s Diary
In 1990 Australian artist Stephen Copland discovered letters, a postcard album and embroidery made in Cuba in 1907 by his maternal grandmother Julia Elias Menayer, and a diary written in 1911 on her arrival in Melbourne from Cuba and subsequent passage to Dunedin,New Zealand to link with family. Both families left Lebanon in the 1890’s.
Stephen Copland - Corrugated Sea-Border Protection 2009
Stephen Copland - Concept and iron sculpture. Film, editing and sound by Blake Copland Filmed at Killcare Beach, New South Wales AUSTRALIA
Stephen Copland - Transit-Migration as Art
Transit - a state of flux, motion, uncertainty—of being between places, times, life events—a passage from one to the other. As humans we are in constant transit. Our lives are a great journey, from beginning to end, ever changing, ever transforming—unwillingly. We are migrants by nature, changing appearance, thought, experiences, and attachments—wondering from one age to the next. ( Professor Jochen Sokoly. 2009)
Stephen Copland - Drowning not Waving-Migration as Art
Animation by Stephen Copland Editorial assistance Blake Copland
The Artist in the Studio-Migration as Art
Concept and artworks by Stephen Copland. Film and editing by Blake Copland. Music by Toby Roberts
The Corrugated Sea-Stephen Copland
One central visual expression of this key image is the video work, Corrugated Sea, 2009, that observes an installation of elements of the Raft on Killcare Beach, on the Central Coast of NSW. The Australian beach environment has become one of the icons of our democratic freedom and tolerance.