Kori Miles, Bon Mott and Agnes Whalan

The Seventh Seal

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The Seventh Seal

Kori Miles, Bon Mott and Agnes Whalan

7

July 2021

7

July

2021

31

July 2021

Gallery 1

Kori Miles, Bon Mott and Agnes Whalan present an elaborate installation that considers how queer rhythms flow into processes of collaboration, exchange and transformation.These artists transfer energy through conversation, art making, ritual, performance and gameplay to conjure and manifest concepts based on their intuition, research, ancestry, personal experiences and visions for the future. Their works interweave trickster stories, quantum physics, spirituality, social activism, queer ecologies, humour, horror and the rockstar. They work with a punk sensibility that challenges and rejects dominant modes of Western colonial and heteronormative frameworks and operation.With their site specific work The Seventh Seal (a reference to Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 film set during the Black Death) Sean Miles and Bon Mott intertwine repurposed studio materials with personal objects to create mobile sculptures of symbols related to expansive identities and Agnes Whalan transforms a game of chess into a song and dance.

Exhibition documented by Aaron Rees.

Kori Miles, Bon Mott and Agnes Whalan present an elaborate installation that considers how queer rhythms flow into processes of collaboration, exchange and transformation.These artists transfer energy through conversation, art making, ritual, performance and gameplay to conjure and manifest concepts based on their intuition, research, ancestry, personal experiences and visions for the future. Their works interweave trickster stories, quantum physics, spirituality, social activism, queer ecologies, humour, horror and the rockstar. They work with a punk sensibility that challenges and rejects dominant modes of Western colonial and heteronormative frameworks and operation.With their site specific work The Seventh Seal (a reference to Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 film set during the Black Death) Sean Miles and Bon Mott intertwine repurposed studio materials with personal objects to create mobile sculptures of symbols related to expansive identities and Agnes Whalan transforms a game of chess into a song and dance.

Bon Mott

Bon Mott is a neurodiverse, nonbinary artist, curator and educator who exhibits internationally. Thier practice is informed by learning Indigenous Knowledge. Living on stolen land, Mott is committed to collaborating with First Nations creatives. They make sculpture site-specific installations activated by performance art using process, film, photography, sound, silk, steel, bronze, magnets, chains and beads.

Agnes Whalan

Agnes Whalan is a queer artist, writer and musician who is currently studying a BFA in Drawing and Printmedia at the Victorian College of the Arts.Their practice explores systemic phenomena in the context of the anthropocene. Through a compulsive investigation of contemporary structures, their work follows a logic of both semblance and paradox to catalogue self-ascribed taxonomies.

Kori Miles

Kori is an interdisciplinary and process-based takataapui artist, currently working and living on sacred Wurundjeri land in Naarm/Melbourne. They are of Maaori (Ngaati Raukawa, Ngaati Ahuru, Tainui/Waikato), Italian, Scottish & Anglo-Celtic descent, but born and raised in so-called Australia. They predominantly utilise performance, installation, sculpture, photography, video and poetry as mediums to explore/articulate ideas, knowledge and stories.

Kori’s practice is guided by the stories of Maaui—the trickster demigod of Maaori mythology—and how Maaui’s clever wit combined with the powers of shape-shifting and interdimensional travel are used to undermine structural authority and cause a paradigm shift in power distribution - a social and systemic change that benefits those with less privilege and access. Kori’s practice manifests visions that confront the ongoing damage of colonial and heteronormative social structures, whilst concurrently fostering a space for contemplation on transgression, eroticism, liberation, humour, healing, regeneration and resilience.