Artwork

Soundscape for a listening journey crafted from recorded dialogues between non-binary artists, exploring what gender and transition mean to them, sharing their journey and process — emotional, philosophical, medical and creative. Visit the team for conversations about gender, drop in through the weekend and have your voice embedded in the work. Join a guided speculation following the conversations around exiting the social and cultural construct of gender.

Film by Jesse Boylan and Mitch Novalis.

When we became awake, we saw that we had been asleep. From a distance we call to each other, communicating with loud, drawn-out cries. Blue and yellow racing diagonally through the sky. One hand stretched out, while the other forms a magical sign. We are travelling with the strange language. We are travelling with sweet laughter. We have to stay brave, energetic, and stubborn. Grow dank warm skins of green velvet. Bare dirty infectious teeth to pierce the skin-border between labour and Capital, chained to our incendiary dragons and prepared for death. Howling discordant odes to the Anthropocene, our story will never really exist, never be completely written. The fire is tired of waiting.

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Excerpt from Spiritual Machines.

An In Her Interior project.

Orifice Oriented Ontologies (OOO) is an experimental performance program featuring Archie Barry, V Barratt, Allison Gibbs and Sage Pbbbt, curated by Liquid Architecture in response to ACCA’s exhibition Frances Barrett: Meatus.

The mouth’s multiple functions materially and socially link us to others. An earhole is an open meatus into the body, through which sonic subjectivities are digested and recomposed. Sound and vibration leak in and out from all orifices, connecting and entangling in the folds of bodies, disturbing those boundaries.

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Disclaimer — Orifice Oriented Ontologies

ACCA — Monstrous Chorus (Artist Talk)

INTERIORS is a specially commissioned edition of Fine Print magazine focused on short-form film and sonic works that unpack prescient concerns. Through visual and aural language, INTERIORS is a collective response comprised of a vast array of individual approaches to art-making whilst in isolation.

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Contributors

Roy Ananda (SA), Virginia Barratt (SA), Alycia Bennett & Florian Cinco (AUS/PHL), Alison Currie (SA), Brian Fuata (NSW), Dominic Guerrera (SA), Ray Harris (SA), Cynthia Schwertsik (SA), Kate Power (SA), Inneke Taalman (SA).

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Fine Print Magazine — Issue 22: INTERIORS

A collaborative platform in art, science, and technology examining how these fields shape our world and offer alternative ways of living. The initiative pursued sustainable artistic and curatorial practices through inclusion.

Works

• Her eyes were as black as coal — sculptural installation and two-channel video (205 Hudson Gallery)
• Mxtrx Class — experimental writing workshop (Knockdown Centre)
• This Platform Life — performance with Petra (Hunter College & 205 Hudson Gallery)

Venues

• 205 Hudson Gallery
• Hunter College Masters Program
• Knockdown Centre

This Platform Life — Performance

Sculptural Works

• Alembic by Ashley Haywood
• Spiral hat and trilobite hat by Annie Wright

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Refresh Art Tech — In Her Interior

again, back remain through — The prefix ‘re-’ originates from the Latin, again, back. Back, again? Re-iterate, reticence, re-perform. Parentheses (put in beside) are used to hold apart language as an aside. Often an aside that the writer wants the reader to see but not to hear. To look but not to hold?

again, back remain through is a performance that embraces the site of ACE Open, its memory of experimental performance art, and my time in the space. It takes cues from how I am situated in labour, discourse and as a politicised body. The work negotiates the performative, reiterative function of language to consider the structural conditions of an embrace and undertakes acts of translation from one form into another — written, vocalised, inscribed — and thus from one time, body and space into another.

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Grace Marlow — again, back remain through

Xenoblood is a multi-platform artwork comprising an online multi-user environment (LambdaMOO), performing avatars, experimental hypertext fiction, and a XenZine workshop (pronounced zeenzeen). The subject is the construction of intentional familiars beyond blood and the nuclear family, in a rather anarchic exploration of Xeno kin(d)ship, queerness and the ties that bind, beyond blood and biological determinism.

While the Xenoblood project is very speculative in its scope, the group are methodologically and politically committed to praxis, that is, the ‘practical application of a theory’ through iterative processes of action/reflection.

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ACE — Xenoblood Zine Workshop

Works

• “The Darkening: Flesh Lined With Language Lined With Flesh” with Francesca da Rimini and Quinn Eades
• “Detonation” with Eve Klein and AñA Wojak — a performative exploration of sonic and bodily resonance

Publication

The Darkening: Flesh Lined with Language Lined with Flesh: Score for three speakers in one act — Somatechnics, 9 no. 1 (2019)

A large white box stands in a narrow graffiti covered back alley. The alley is a dead end. The box is sealed on all sides except for a small aperture at the front, a peep hole. The audience can view the action in the box through this opening only.

Set into the box are two viewing chutes. Each is a different viewing device playing looped films. One shows two skeletons working manically in a laboratory, the other (viewed through a large lens) shows a seated skeleton with petals falling upwards all over it. A pair of ear buds hanging from the box near by plays an audio recording of multiple layers of dialogue; two skeletons discussing the nature of death from a personal, existential perspective. From another small tube protruding from the box at knee height, grains of rice tumble into a bowl.

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Barratt and Boyd

The atomic wind catches your wings and you are propelled backwards into the future, an entity time travelling through the late C20th, a space case, an alien angel maybe, looking down the deep throat of a million catastrophes.

Woh era ew ot emoceb stsoh fo siht wen dlrow? Woh od ew dliub a retteb citoimes etisarap -- eno taht sesuora eht serised ew tnaw ot erised. Etarbilac na tnegrusni xelpemem.

screenflash of a millionmillion conscious machines

Photo by Frances Barrett.

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First Draft — Haunting

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Disruption Network Lab — CYBORG

Spheres Journal for Digital Cultures — Hexing the Alien