By Dylan Rainforth
You Should Let Go Of A Dying Relationship (2006) is a silent video where artist Darren Sylvester restaged David Bowie's Heroes and Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights music clips, mimicking his pop idols in a form of drag. The video is part of current NGV exhibition Transmission: Legacies of the Television Age, which explores TV's influence on visual culture since the Vietnam War. A musician as well as an acclaimed artist, Sylvester will be speaking to photography curator Susan van Wyk in a ticketed event next Wednesday, July 8, where they will discuss "television as an artistic medium and information source". Most recently Sylvester has exhibited mainly in Sydney. Although he may have, temporarily at least, moved on from music-themed works the relationship between image and artifice – where TV still reigns supreme – remains an enduring theme. ngv.vic.gov.au