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Gerald Machona: Ndiri Afronaut (I am an Afronaut) - sydney (2016)
Minouk Lim: Strange Fruit - sydney (2016)
Alexis Teplin: Arch (The Politics of Fragmentation) - Sydney (2016)
Chiharu Shiota: Conscious Sleep - Sydney (2016)
Lee Bul: Willing to be Vulnerable - Sydney (2016)
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Minouk Lim: Strange Fruit - sydney (2016)
Alexis Teplin: Arch (The Politics of Fragmentation) - Sydney (2016)
Chiharu Shiota: Conscious Sleep - Sydney (2016)
Lee Bul: Willing to be Vulnerable - Sydney (2016)
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Gerald Machona: Ndiri Afronaut (I am an Afronaut)
Carriageworks, Sydney Biennale, 2016. Curated by Dr Stephanie Rosenthal. “Gerald Machona’s multifaceted artistic practice spans a diverse range of mediums, including sculpture, video, photography, performance and installation. By creating characters that reference ‘Nyau’, forms of ritual dance incorporating masks originating in the Chewa villages of central Malawi, Machona explores performance as a means of arbitration and communication, providing insight into cultural identity and challenging intolerance. His innovative use of decommissioned currency as a key material enables the artist to examine theRead moreMinouk Lim: Strange Fruit
Carriageworks, Sydney Biennale, 2016. Curated by Dr Stephanie Rosenthal. “The work of South Korean artist Minouk Lim explores the human and societal costs of modernisation. Working across a range of mediums, including performance, video, sculpture, installation and community-engaged public art, Lim’s work takes as its inspiration, and often its material, the globalised world. Themes of alienation, collective memory, loss of place, detritus, rapid growth, obsolescence and political power all resonate through her powerful and poetic works. Lim has described her video-basedRead moreAlexis Teplin: Arch (The Politics of Fragmentation)
Cockatoo Island, Sydney Biennale, 2016. Curated by Dr Stephanie Rosenthal. “London-based American artist Alexis Teplin’s practice explores the experience of movement and sound in painting. Known for her brightly coloured abstract paintings, these canvases often extend to form the backdrop, shape and even costume for Teplin’s sculptures and performance works. Teplin also draws on a wide range of other art historical, literary and old Hollywood film references in the creation of her performative installations, which ultimately explore the interactions between sensuality,Read moreChiharu Shiota: Conscious Sleep
Cockatoo Island, Sydney Biennale, 2016. Curated by Dr Stephanie Rosenthal. “Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota has lived and worked in Berlin for 20 years, and is known for intricate works that explore the complex relationship between the body and the mind. Mapping elusive sensations of emotion and memory, many of Shiota’s site-specific, large-scale installations incorporate everyday objects, such as clothing, musical instruments, furniture, letters, even an incinerated piano, weaving them into tangled webs comprising hundreds of metres of black thread. AtmosphericRead more