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3.7.16

The Hidden Gesture - the works

Vilma Bader, The White Space of Mallarmé detail

Vilma Bader, The White Space of Mallarmé in process

Vilma Bader, The White Space of Mallarmé 2013, Pigment ink on archival paper,

50, each 22.7 x 17.7 cm.

Clara Chow Currency II & III

2-channel digital HD video, 2015

Eliya Nikki Cohen

Embrace, silver gelatin print, 2010

Andrew Christie Tears of Joy

5.6.16

The Hidden Gesture opens Friday 24 June, 6-8pm

Open Friday - Sunday 11am - 5pm until July 17

The Hidden Gesture is curated by Andrew Christie

Works by Vilma Bader, Clara Chow, Frankie Chow, Eliya Nikki Cohen, Mitchel Cumming, Laura Turner and Joe Florio, Christina Lucia, Giuffrida, Aaron Moore

The Hidden Gesture displays work that communicates the unintentionally expressed and the intentionally unexpressed. These artists recognise the inevitable collapse and failure that accompanies probing into the available means of conveying intent – with a strong focus towards, yet not exclusive to, the body – through art. Inevitably each action reveals and conceals elements of our identity and the messages we wish to disseminate about ourselves and others. As identities and perspectives are in constant flow, these works aim to analyse how what is present and absent through intention transitions to its culminated artistic products and what that declares about artistic agency.

Aaron Moore

Stuff self, digital photography, 2015

Clara Chow

Currency II & III

2-channel digital HD video, 2015

Christina Lucia Giuffrida

Part of installation Why You Do This?, mixed media, 2015

Eliya Nikki Cohen

Embrace, silver gelatin print, 2010

Frankie Chow

Homesick, single-channel digital video, 2016

Laura Turner and Joe Florio

Figure in a Dark Landscape, single channel digital video, 2015

Mitchel Cumming

Ad Break, promotional posters in custom A-frame, 2013

Vilma Bader
Everyday, acrylic on panels mounted on wooden frames, 2011

25.1.15

FERAL3 works

Elena Tory-Henderson, Jannah Quill, Sue Callanan

Elena Tory-Henderson, Christine Myerscough

Ambrose Reisch, Martin Langthorne

Ambrose Reisch

Veronica Habib, Justine Holt

Nicole Ellis, Katya Peteskaya

Helen L Sturgess, Nicole Ellis

Veronica Habib, Helen L Sturgess

Judith Torzillo, Martin Langthorne

Tim Corne, Martin Langthorne

Elena Tory-Henderson, Helen M Sturgess,
Katya Peteskaya, Jannah Quill

Helen L Sturgess, Rachel McCallum, Julian Woods,
Nicole Ellis, Katya Petetskaya

Richard Kean, Katya Petetskaya

Andrew Christie

Andrew Christie. Rachel McCallum, Nicole Ellis, Helen L Sturgess

Helen L Sturgess, Julian Woods, Nicole Ellis

MELISSA MAREE WRITES ABOUT THE DOUBLING IN FERAL 3

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What is Doubling?

The Surrealist notion of 'Doubling' is a technique used to fracture and destabilize an object/image. The uncanny shudder felt from duplication also draws on a crisis of identity of divisions of the self (Unconscious/conscious and/or binary of reality/illusion).

A sense of humour is found in Veronica Habib's 'I Love What You Have Done With Your Hair, Underwear Brief, G-String and Dress' which strongly inspired the bridged link between 'Doubling'. After conversation and consideration of Habib's choice of materials and ideas (clothing/hair and warping of the familiar codes/perceptions of body image/sexuality), I saw a strong link in my manipulation of Mcdonalds Uniforms. The cutting of the uniforms served to create holes to acknowledge the space outside of the uniform – that is left open to audience interpretation.

Doubling uses the pseudonym of Veronica Habib to show the value of collaborative authorship and the importance of acknowledging fellow artists in process-based projects. This acknowledgement involves speaking with artists in process-based projects in a means of verbal and non-verbal language. After much discussion with Habib I asked her if I could use her name as alias.

The idea of assuming an alias came from the 'Doubling' of Helen L Sturgess and Helen M Sturgess, two artists with the exact same first and last name who were placed in Feral 3's project week. The blurry lines between who was who, I felt created a unintended collaborative authorship. Extending on this idea the pseudonym opens up discussion for collaborative authorship, and visibility and invisibility of the artist in an artwork.

The idea of Doubling, also forms a dialogue with Andrew Christie's 'Echo' through the duplication and manipulation of everyday objects (basket ball hoops – Mcdonalds T-shirts). Christie's work echoes a sense of erotic doubling, where a hoop net is interwoven connecting the two together. If we think of Echo in literal terms the action of shooting a basket ball into the hoop would cause the ball to clot in this umbilical cord-like net. This poetically playful gesture suggests something deeper of the idea of the Everyday such as a feeling of repetition, monotony and mimicry that characterises everyday life.

The remains of the shirts also form a reference to Margaret Roberts 'Blps', where the leftovers form markers on the floor. Since 'Cutendpaste' a prior process-based show I participated in with Marg, I have been influenced by her spatial interests in merging abstract space with everyday familiar space. The abstraction of the everyday object (Maccas uniform) is an attempt to merge these two spaces, to draw on relationship between work practice and art practice. The instability of casualisation in the workplace is felt by many artists across broad spectrum of professions: hospitality, retail, and education. Doubling attempts to open questions on the impact of work relations on art practice, the holes acting as a point to see-through.

Melissa Maree

25 Jan 2015

24.1.15

FERAL 3 Opened last night

and closes at 5pm, Sunday 24 January, after which half these works will be removed and another 10 or so installed for FERAL4 which will open on Friday 30 January.

FERAL3 ROOMSHEET

Above photos: William Seeto

image Sue Callanan; non-voice sound: Jannah Quill

18.1.15

FERAL 3 opens Friday 23 January at 6-8pm

ROOMSHEET

Artists in FERAL 3 are Bianca Burns, Sue Callanan, Andrew Christie, Timothy Corne, Nicole Ellis, Veronica Habib, Justine Holt, Richard Kean, Blaide Lallemand, Martin Langthorne, Melissa Maree, Rachel McCallum, Christine Myerscough, Katya Petetskaya, Jannah Quill, Ambrose Reisch, Helen L Sturgess, Helen M Sturgess, Elena Tory-Henderson, Judith Torzillo, Allen Alain Viguier and Julian Woods.

FERAL is a progressive, overlapping exhibition program of over 60 artists that will be open Friday - Sunday 11-5pm between 9 January - 8 February 2015. Its five opening events are Fridays 9, 16, 23 + 30 January and 6 February at 6-8pm, each of which will show the work of a different combination of about twenty artists.

FERAL is designed for artists to experiment with installation or location of artwork in an architectural space that is already altered by the earlier installation of other artists' work, and which will be altered again when another group replaces that earlier installation.

The FERAL project is part of the broader Articulate interest in the relationships artworks form with their locations. It does this by focusing in particular on the contribution that the changing installations of artwork make to the constitution of a site.