Ena Grozdanic, Veronica Charmont and Carmen-Sibha Keiso
Artist Cinema: The Calcified Ear, Sabotage in Seven Acts and Social Listening: VIRUS VIRUS USA
18
May 2024
18
May
2024
Seventh Lawn
Artist Cinema: The Calcified Ear, Sabotage in Seven Acts and Social Listening: VIRUS VIRUS USA
Ena Grozdanic, Veronica Charmont and Carmen-Sibha Keiso
18
May 2024
18
May
2024
Seventh Lawn
Seventh Artist Cinema.
Join us in April and May for our first two sessions of Seventh’s Artist Cinema. Using our outdoor cinema infrastructure, we are presenting curated pairings of artist cinema, video work, short films, or works in progress.
Veronica Charmont will present a new work titled 'The Calcified Ear'. 'The Calcified Ear' investigates the chemical architecture of our inner ear and the disorder Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo. This common disorder evokes brief episodes of severe spinning and revolves around the displacement of microscopic crystals known as Otoconia. The film examines the chemical connections these crystals have to the formation of limestone rocks, and their continual relationship across organisms, land and sea. Shot on 16 mm, a crystalline medium, The Calcified Ear synthesises chemistry and geology whilst contemplating how our bodies are inseparable to the compounds of the universe.
Ena Grozdanic will present a work titled 'Sabotage in Seven Acts'. ‘Sabotage in Seven Acts,’ is an exploration of a rumour of direct action to defend a river system. It takes this rumour, unverifiable, constantly mutating, and wonders what worlds it could birth—whether truth or fiction or somewhere in-between, the rumour forces us to ask: should we not all engage in minor acts of resistance? Does the disappearance of rivers not call for filibuster, for a sustained insurgency?
‘Sabotage in Seven Acts’ focuses on people on the frontlines, away from centres of policy and commerce. It imagines the very first collaborative act of sabotage: how did it feel to join an autonomous and stealthy riot? What tactics were used to bog down construction? What was the smell of the air that night? The film contemplates the role of art during climate catastrophe, concluding that for disobedience to occur, the conditions for courage must be present - and if they’re not, they must be created. It commits itself to generating such conditions, to making the tools and actions of resistance seductive.
Carmen-Sibha Keiso will be screening their 2020 audio/video work 'Social Listening: VIRUS VIRUS USA' that was filmed and recorded in New York City, the audio/video montage maps a process of documentative production in a time of both constant and muted accumulation.
Seventh Artist Cinema series was curated by Isabella Hone-Saunders.
Seventh Artist Cinema.
Join us in April and May for our first two sessions of Seventh’s Artist Cinema. Using our outdoor cinema infrastructure, we are presenting curated pairings of artist cinema, video work, short films, or works in progress.
Veronica Charmont will present a new work titled 'The Calcified Ear'. 'The Calcified Ear' investigates the chemical architecture of our inner ear and the disorder Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo. This common disorder evokes brief episodes of severe spinning and revolves around the displacement of microscopic crystals known as Otoconia. The film examines the chemical connections these crystals have to the formation of limestone rocks, and their continual relationship across organisms, land and sea. Shot on 16 mm, a crystalline medium, The Calcified Ear synthesises chemistry and geology whilst contemplating how our bodies are inseparable to the compounds of the universe.
Ena Grozdanic will present a work titled 'Sabotage in Seven Acts'. ‘Sabotage in Seven Acts,’ is an exploration of a rumour of direct action to defend a river system. It takes this rumour, unverifiable, constantly mutating, and wonders what worlds it could birth—whether truth or fiction or somewhere in-between, the rumour forces us to ask: should we not all engage in minor acts of resistance? Does the disappearance of rivers not call for filibuster, for a sustained insurgency?
‘Sabotage in Seven Acts’ focuses on people on the frontlines, away from centres of policy and commerce. It imagines the very first collaborative act of sabotage: how did it feel to join an autonomous and stealthy riot? What tactics were used to bog down construction? What was the smell of the air that night? The film contemplates the role of art during climate catastrophe, concluding that for disobedience to occur, the conditions for courage must be present - and if they’re not, they must be created. It commits itself to generating such conditions, to making the tools and actions of resistance seductive.
Carmen-Sibha Keiso will be screening their 2020 audio/video work 'Social Listening: VIRUS VIRUS USA' that was filmed and recorded in New York City, the audio/video montage maps a process of documentative production in a time of both constant and muted accumulation.
Ena Grozdanic
Ena Grozdanić is a writer and emerging artist living on unceded Kaurna land. She is Editor at Runway Journal, and is a former Co-director of FELTspace. She was also a member of independent artist-run publication KRASS Journal. Her practice spans text, video, sound, collage, and installation. Ena has had bylines in national and international publications. She has exhibited at Post Office Projects (Tarntanya/Adelaide), Watch This Space (Mparntwe/Alice Springs), Pari (Dharug Land/Sydney), Cool Change Contemporary (Boorloo/Perth), Performance Space’s Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art 2022 (Gadigal Land/Sydney), and FELTspace (Tarntanya/Adelaide), amongst others. Her sound work ‘Timesick’ was recently part of Radio Elsewheres at the KRAK Centre for Contemporary Culture (Bosnia and Herzegovina), and she has participated in residencies at Testing Grounds (Naarm/Melbourne), Can Serrat (Spain) and elsewhere. She has an upcoming exhibition at TCB (Naarm/Melbourne) in January 2025. Ena is currently fascinated by the ethics of remembrance, particularly in relation to lost worlds, interrupted histories, and disappearing landscapes. She has ongoing research projects that ask critical questions about language, place, and land-as-commodity.
Veronica Charmont
Veronica Charmont is an artist and filmmaker based in Naarm, Melbourne. Her practice documents the intricate nature of memory and time through the creation of images, and explores the obscure coincidences and connections that emerge from being alive. Veronica has exhibited at Blindside, KINGS Ari, Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery and Sawtooth Ari. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2022, and was the recipient of the 2019 Majlis Travelling Scholarship.
Carmen-Sibha Keiso
Carmen-Sibha Keiso is an artist, writer and curator working in performance, video, and text and is the director of expanded literary practice space Read the Room. Through a socially-collaborative and research based process, Keiso approaches their practice as a subjugated, intersectional mise-en-scéne in order to delineate how we utilise place to further understand the self.