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against perfection (2021)

against perfection (2021)

Solo Exhibition

Ingredients:

silk cement banners

audio contemplation

scent of wet cement

Curated by STABLE Artspace for Metro Arts' Window Gallery (Brisbane).

Voice & Contemplation: Mary McIntyre

Sound Design: Sonny O’Brien

Scent: Cat Jones

working with concrete as an element to shake free the possibilities of systems, environments, identities and bodies that are hardening, cracking and viscous... what can emerge from the fissures and dust?

Images courtesy of STABLE

Attention Inner Tension (2020)

Online Performance Video

Commissioned by Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane.

Sharing the process of reclaiming and rehabilitating my attention from an intense, long-term interface with systems that have perpetuated a cycle of extraction, distraction, hyperactivity and disconnection from the body. I consider my individual attention as the building block for paying consistent, expanded, collective attention to the larger, systemic issues at hand, both within myself and external to myself. Post-burnout, in Covid context, I’m beginning again.

'cultivating reciprocity (a message for the arts ecology)' (2020)

'cultivating reciprocity (a message for the arts ecology)' (in collaboration with Mary McIntyre) (2020)

Online Group Exhibition

Audio & written traces

Presented by The Walls Artspace, Gold Coast and supported by Outer Space, Brisbane.

Exhibition Link.

Part contemplation, part advocacy, these artist koans are the product of a group therapy session with a collection of Brisbane-based emerging artists and local buddhist somatic psychotherapist and Insight meditation teacher, Mary McIntyre. Together we dove into our doubtings and reckonings with our local arts ecology; its capacity to cultivate artistic health, our capacity to cultivate a healthy ecology, and its relationship to our own practices and wellbeing. They were facilitated and recorded online in our respective homes, together while apart, during the beginning of the Covid-19 social distancing period.

Traces

silver pen on window lit with candlelight

(shared with permission):

Rebecca Ross-

Looking at;

synthesised;

anchor of attention;

trust in the process.

Meaning;

intention;

lived experience;

the immediacy of an idea.

Knowing; slowly;

expanding;

in-between; in the middle.

Nothing is ever finished;

frame; body; ideology.

Tony Baker-

losing yourself to the agency of things may feel melancholic to lose yourself of your own accord can distance the agency of these things we must negotiate as artists to ourselves again losing yourself to the agency of things may feel melancholic to lose yourself of your own accord can distance the agency of these things we must negotiate as artists to ourselves again losing yourself to the agency of things may feel melancholic to lose yourself of your own accord can distance the agency of these things we must negotiate as artists to ourselves again ...

Libby Harward-