He has exhibited locally and interstate including This Is Not Art Festival, Channels Video Art Biennial, White Night Melbourne, Melbourne Now, Melbourne Central (Mars gallery), Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, West Space, The Substation, Melbourne Town Hall (Craft Victoria) and Margaret Lawrence Gallery.
In addition, he has also been a commissioned artist for Signal Screen Commission, 4 x 4 Mini Projection Festival, and Uncommon Places (Melbourne Fringe Festival's 2014 keynote project) at the Melbourne City & Docklands Libraries. His curatorial projects include Digital Outlawed (2013), and the Love/City Curatorial Trilogy (Three artist-run festivals over three years; 2014, 2015, and 2016) and The New Vanguard exhibition (Seventh Gallery, at the Gertrude Street Projection Festival, co-curated with Yandell Walton) and Carousel (Abbotsford Convent). Since 2016, he has been the Program Director and Curator at Testing Grounds.
Convenient Slow Dance
'Convenient Slow Dance' recreates a scene from the 1997 film 'In & Out'. In the film, Joan Cusack runs away from her wedding after her groom comes out as gay. She runs out in front of a car, screaming 'I need a heterosexual code red!', only to discover the driver is a former student who is in love with her. Serendipitously, ‘Crazy’, by Patsy Cline, begins to play on the radio and they slow dance for 10 seconds (before the scene ends), surrounded by the romantic light emanating from the car headlights.
In film theory, this trope is called a 'convenient slow dance'. In this Test, Glorie wanted to find out if people recognise the scene, or if they thought it was real life, emphasising the influence that cinema has on our expectations of life.
This work is a continuation of the artist's ongoing interest in how cinema influences the way we see the world. In 2014, his video artwork ‘Waltz’ (PICA) explored how cinema is a self-reflexive medium we use to view ourselves. In 2016, his performance artwork ‘1996-2004’ (The Substation) explored how we associate construction workers carrying plates of glass with action movies. In 2017, his video artwork ‘Karaoke Nights’ (Melbourne Central Video Art Loop) explored how shadows are used as a narrative device to expose a characters hidden desires. 'Convenient Slow Dance' was the first time that the artist created artwork specifically designed for public space.