Converse. Installation View, Boxcopy, 2018.
Converse
Archie Barry, Barbara Cleveland, Hannah Raisin, Nina Ross, Mandy Quadrio
Curated by Rachael Haynes and Simone Hine
Boxcopy, 14-28 July 2018
This exhibition emerged out of conversations about Australian feminist performative artworks and embraces conversation as a curatorial method. Each curator suggested an artwork, that the other responded to with another artwork. A printed conversation accompanies the exhibition and documents this exchange.
The conversation ranges from questions of how to define feminism today and how it operates as a political or personal framework, to exploring intersectional identities and representation, examining the body in relation to humor, and performance in relation to history and re-enactment. Converse is an exhibition as dialogue and considers the ever shifting and unravelling nature of contemporary feminist art practice. The artists featured in the exhibition are Nina Ross, Mandy Quadrio, Hannah Raisin, Archie Barry and Barbara Cleveland.
The full conversation text can be read here.
Hannah Raisin, Fold, 2015. HD Video. 2mins55sec. Installation View. Converse. Boxcopy, 2018.
Nina Ross, Baby Gestures, 2016. HD Video, 4mins57sec. loop; Mandy Quadrio, Challenging the Aesthetics of Mythic Identity, 2016. Photograph. Installation View. Converse, Boxcopy, 2018.
Archie Barry, Language Very Small, 2018. Letter, single channel video loop, 2mins17sec; Barbara Cleveland. Bad Timing. HD Video. Stereo Sound. 7min28sec. Installation View. Converse, Boxcopy, 2018.
Archie Barry, Language Very Small, 2018. Letter, single channel video loop, 2mins17sec. Installation View. Converse, Boxcopy, 2018.
Archie Barry, Language Very Small, 2018. Letter, single channel video loop, 2mins17sec. Installation View. Converse, Boxcopy, 2018.
