17 August – 3 September
Opens 17 August 6pm-8pm
Adrift in the Void
Jon Oldmeadow
Adrift in the Void stems from video footage recorded by a miniature camera hidden inside sunglasses, developed during a residency at Casa Tres Patios, Medellín, Colombia. The footage was filmed in public spaces without people’s knowledge or consent, then transformed into fiction through narrative voice-over. The narration adapts quotes from Haruki Murakami, Philip K. Dick and Paul Auster in combination with writing by the artist. Unsuspecting people become actors and “reality” becomes “fiction” through imagining small episodes in people’s day-to-day life.
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17 August – 3 September
Opens 17 August 6pm-8pm
Hung
Andrew Burford
Hung explores the contemporary depictions of masculinity, specifically associated with the male nude, and invites the voyeuristic gaze of the viewer to poke a little fun at the idea that phallus size determines worth. By distorting what is expected, Andrew Burford opens up a dialogue on the hegemonic depictions of masculinity and the phallus as anallegory for power.
Through the use of photography and installation Andrew creates a visual reference to a world obsessed with size and allows the viewer to determine his self-worth.
Working mainly in photography, Andrew investigates the performance of gender and its relevance in contemporary society. Ranging from nude friends to drag queens, he investigates what gender is and why it is such a big deal.
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7 September – 24 September
Opens 7 September 6pm-8pm
Trading Futures
Jade Burstall
This work explores the idea of us all as individuals, living within a fixed external value system, laid out in terms of gold – whilst the futures market allows for trading things that literally do not even exist yet.
17 August – 3 September
Opens Wednesday 17 August 6pm-8pm
Uniquely Yours – 155a Gertrude Street, Fitzroy 2065
The OK Collective (Oliver Cloke and Kathy Heyward)
‘Uniquely Yours’ screams aloud the sign of the times as neighbouring art-spaces are sold off and threatened with gentrification, and it’s mimicry – initially coincidental – becomes both artwork and art statement.
Through spatial re-appropriation the viewer is left de-centred; the inhabitant develops their relationship to the space through action and alteration and the viewer becomes not unlike a domestic visitor or, alternately, dependent upon their own resonance within the space, a voyeur. A social game is developed as a form of artwork and allowance is made for direct observation of how people function within private space – the irony of course, being obvious.
17 August 3 September
Opens 17 August 6pm-8pm
Here is Where We Meet
Zoe Croggon and Martin King
“We know more than we can use. Look at all this stuff I’ve got in my head:
rockets and Venetian churches, David Bowie and Diderot,
nuoc man and Big Macs, sunglasses and orgasms.”
— Susan Sontag
I, etcetera, 1979
Here Is Where We Meet is a showcase of visual and auditory collage
by Zoe Croggon and Martin King.
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