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Emile Zile (Born 1979) is an Australian artist and filmmaker, working accross video, performance and installation. Zile's work focuses on the effects of the mediation of experience through communications technology and captures the traces of humanity inscribed on the remnants of a digital culture.

Life and Career Emile Zile works between Melbourne (Australia) and Amsterdam (The Netherlands). After completing a Bachelors of Fine Arts in 2001 and Honours in Media Arts in 2014 at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Emile Zile moved to Amsterdam in 2007 to commence a Master of Fine Arts at the Sandberg Institute. From 2012 to 2013 he undertook a two year studio residency at the Rjksakademie van beldeende kunsten, Amsterdam.

Zile has held exhibitions, screenings and performances extensively throughout Australia, Asia and Europe. His performances are often housed in cinemas or art spaces and combine knowing low-tech poetics with intimate performative engagement with the audience. His short film work extends the gesture and symbolism found in his performances to the film medium, often using stand-ins, dummies and decoys to express a deeply audiovisual sensibility. His 2013 film 'Western Digital' marked a departure to observational documentary. The film highlights the symbolic transfer of rice, photography and performance within a daily Buddhist ritual held in Luang Prabang, Laos. LI-MA Amsterdam began to distribute the short film 'Western Digital' in 2013.

Works In 1997, Zile was selected for participating in The Prize is Right, an experience that became the material for the artist seminal work Larry Emdur’s Suit, 2002. "Zile ‘performs’ himself in a bizarre series of hand gestures and contorted postures to which Emdur responds by mirroring. Zile effectively bends the materiality of television to his will, making Emdur follow his dance. It is hilarious and very, very strange."

Selected works Screened, Performance, 2014 Western Digital, Short Film, HD video, 2013 Post-Studio Practice, 2013 Jack, HD video, 2012 I have Issues, Digital Prints, 2012 Subtitle Kino, Performance, 2012 OMG_Sisyphus, performance, 2011 Five Production Company Logos in 3D, 2010 Holy Cow, Video, 2006 Larry Emdur’s Suit, 2002
 * best*RapidEssayNSFW!!, Performance, 2011

Exhibitions Soon after his return to Australia in 2013, Emile Zile was included in the large survey exhibition Melbourne Now at The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. . His work has been screened internationally at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Singapore and The Torrance Art Museum, California in 2013; at the International Film Festival Rotterdam; Videotage, HongKong in 2008; and at Rojo Nova, Sao Paulo, Brazil in 2010. The artist performed at The national Gallery of Victoria, The Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane and LaSalle College of the Arts, Singapore in 2014, at the Netherlands Institute for Media Art, Amsterdam and at Fargfabriken, Stockholm in 2012 an as part of arts festivals. Emile Zile took part in group exhibitions, for The Leisure Class, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2008; Rietveld/1 mins, Arsenale, 53rd Venice Biennale, 2009; and Three Artists Walk into a Bar, De Appel, Amsterdam, 2012. Solo exhibitions of his works were presented in 2012 at Footscray Arts Centre, Melbourne; in 2011 at Diane Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne; in 2009 at Fette’s Gallery, Los Angeles; in 2007 at Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam and at Spielraum, Berlin.

Critical Analysis In Larry Emdur’s Suit (2002) Emile Zile turned a stroke of good luck into one of the most remarkable video art pieces of the last ten years. With a chance to be an audience member on long-running TV show The Price Is Right, Zile was doubly fortunate to be chosen as a contestant. With just a few minutes in the spotlight, the hyperactive Zile clowned around with presenter Larry Emdur while he attempted to guess the price of a set of nursery furniture. Ultimately defeated at the next stage of the show, Zile was nevertheless able to turn the experience into a video documenting the experience using little more than a home recording of the episode and a voice over.

Zile’s work — crisscrossing the entire gamut of video art production, from single channel and multiple channel work to installations, performances and VJ-ing to music video and dance works — is united by this continuing fascination. -Andrew Frost in Sanlines, Media Art in Australia Since the 1960s

In Zile’s film we see ‘content’ and ‘experience’ in mutual production as a site of subjective personal experience; experience being the critical site of content production. - Matthew Shannon

Free lunch, final wisdom, total coverage – Hunter S. Thompson

Residencies and Awards MES56, Jogjakarta, Indonesia, Artist in Residence, 2014 Mondriaan fonds, Netherlands, Fellowship, 2013 Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Netherlands, Fellowship, 2012 Rjksakademie van beldeende kunsten, Amsterdam, Artist in Residence, 2012-2013 Chinese European Centre, Artist in Residence, 2008 Het Wilde Weten Studios and Gallery. Rotterdam, Holland, Artist in Residence, 2006 – 2007 Park19 Contemporary Art Studios. Guangzhou, China, Artist in Residence, 2006

External Links

Emile Zile Official Website

Larry Emdur’s Suit Video