DEAD CENTRE
"I'm not on the outside looking in, I'm not on the inside looking out, I'm in the dead fucking centre, looking around"
Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul’s Outro, Section.80, 2011
Curated by Abdul-Rahman Abdullah & Anna Louise Richardson.
Featuring artists Tony Albert, Abdul Abdullah, Olga Cironis, Barbara Cleveland, Nathan Beard, Megan Cope, Liam Colgan, Thea Costantino, Léuli Eshraghi and Angela Tiatia.
This exhibition has brought together a selection of artists from around Australia whose practices draw on the physicality of the human body to explore the intersection of individuality and the broader constructs of power as a symptom of stratified cultural capital.
Exploiting the documentary nature of photography and the moving image, each of these artists has foregrounded the body as protagonist in a personal drama that defines shared experiences of marginalisation, inseparable from them as practitioners and human beings. Dead Centre articulates the problematic expectations of the individual in finding their place in a social landscape characterised by simplistic and divisive assumptions.
Decolonising the liminal spaces of gender, ethnicity, as well as sexual and cultural identity demands access to individual stories that reclaim the power to define themselves from within.
Through acts of obfuscation, resistance, vulnerability and embracing the absurd, each of these artists reveal a very real, physical stake in claiming visibility against a prescribed sense of Australian normalcy. While the body remains the root vehicle it is the layering decisions of flesh, masking, vestments, action and language that take the works in nuanced and specific directions.
Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul’s Outro, Section.80, 2011
Curated by Abdul-Rahman Abdullah & Anna Louise Richardson.
Featuring artists Tony Albert, Abdul Abdullah, Olga Cironis, Barbara Cleveland, Nathan Beard, Megan Cope, Liam Colgan, Thea Costantino, Léuli Eshraghi and Angela Tiatia.
This exhibition has brought together a selection of artists from around Australia whose practices draw on the physicality of the human body to explore the intersection of individuality and the broader constructs of power as a symptom of stratified cultural capital.
Exploiting the documentary nature of photography and the moving image, each of these artists has foregrounded the body as protagonist in a personal drama that defines shared experiences of marginalisation, inseparable from them as practitioners and human beings. Dead Centre articulates the problematic expectations of the individual in finding their place in a social landscape characterised by simplistic and divisive assumptions.
Decolonising the liminal spaces of gender, ethnicity, as well as sexual and cultural identity demands access to individual stories that reclaim the power to define themselves from within.
Through acts of obfuscation, resistance, vulnerability and embracing the absurd, each of these artists reveal a very real, physical stake in claiming visibility against a prescribed sense of Australian normalcy. While the body remains the root vehicle it is the layering decisions of flesh, masking, vestments, action and language that take the works in nuanced and specific directions.
Spectrum Project Space, Perth, WA.
24 September - 1 October 2016.
TOURING WITH ART ON THE MOVE
Alcoa Mandurah Art Gallery, Mandurah, WA.
30 November 2017 - 14 January 2018.
Goldfields Art Centre, Kalgoorlie, WA.
27 January - 11 March 2018.
Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, Geraldton, WA.
20 April - 17 June 2018.
ART ON THE MOVE, Beach Street Gallery, WA.
15 August - 28 September 2018.
Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, Bunbury, WA.
1 December 2018 - 3 March 2019.
Katanning Gallery, Katanning, WA.
6 March 2019 - 9 April 2019.
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE CATALOGUE
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE EXHIBITION DOCUMENTATION
24 September - 1 October 2016.
TOURING WITH ART ON THE MOVE
Alcoa Mandurah Art Gallery, Mandurah, WA.
30 November 2017 - 14 January 2018.
Goldfields Art Centre, Kalgoorlie, WA.
27 January - 11 March 2018.
Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, Geraldton, WA.
20 April - 17 June 2018.
ART ON THE MOVE, Beach Street Gallery, WA.
15 August - 28 September 2018.
Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, Bunbury, WA.
1 December 2018 - 3 March 2019.
Katanning Gallery, Katanning, WA.
6 March 2019 - 9 April 2019.
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE CATALOGUE
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE EXHIBITION DOCUMENTATION
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L- Tony Albert, Brother (Our present), 2013, pigment print on paper, edition of 3 + 2AP, 150 x 100cm. Courtesy the artist.
R- Barbara Cleveland, Runaway, 2008, single channel HD video, edition of 5, 6 minutes. Courtesy of the artists.
R- Barbara Cleveland, Runaway, 2008, single channel HD video, edition of 5, 6 minutes. Courtesy of the artists.
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L- Abdul Abdullah, We are sweat and tears, 2014, type C print on aluminium, edition of 5 + 2AP, 150 x 110cm. Courtesy the artist.
R- Abdul Abdullah, We are blood and bone, 2014, type C print on aluminium, edition of 5 + 2AP, 150 x 110cm. Courtesy the artist.
R- Abdul Abdullah, We are blood and bone, 2014, type C print on aluminium, edition of 5 + 2AP, 150 x 110cm. Courtesy the artist.
Olga Cironis, Home Run, 2013, archival print, edition of 2, 122 x 95.5cm. Courtesy the artist.
Nathan Beard, Retirement, 2013, digital print on Canson Baryta, edition of 5 + 2AP, 80 x 60cm. Courtesy the artist.
Nathan Beard, Suburban Eden, 2013, digital print on Canson Baryta, edition of 5 + 2AP, 80 x 60cm. Courtesy the artist.
Megan Cope, The Blaktism, 2014, single channel HD video, edition of 6, 8 minutes. Courtesy the artist.
Liam Colgan, Straight on from here, 2015, single channel HD video, edition of 3 + 1AP, 23 seconds looped. Courtesy the artist.
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L- Thea Costantino, 2012, Ancestors III, glicee print, edition of 3, 103 x 75cm. Courtesy the artist.
R- Thea Costantino, 2012, Ancestors IV, glicee print, edition of 3, edition of 3, 103 x 75cm. Courtesy the artist.
R- Thea Costantino, 2012, Ancestors IV, glicee print, edition of 3, edition of 3, 103 x 75cm. Courtesy the artist.
Léuli Eshgraghi, Tino Manaia, 2016, two channel HD video, edition of 5, 2 minutes 17 seconds. Courtesy the artist.
Angela Tiatia, Walking the Wall, 2014, single channel HD video, edition of 8, 13 mins 4 secs. Courtesy the artist.
This exhibition has been assisted by ART ON THE MOVE through the Exhibition Touring Program.
ART ON THE MOVE is supported by the State Government through the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries (DLGSC).
ART ON THE MOVE would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land and we pay their respects to the Elders both past, present and future for their unique contribution to the cultural life of communities across Australia.
ART ON THE MOVE is supported by the State Government through the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries (DLGSC).
ART ON THE MOVE would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land and we pay their respects to the Elders both past, present and future for their unique contribution to the cultural life of communities across Australia.
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