Date: Nov 7 - Dec 6 2020 - Launch and Opening Ceremony Sunday Nov 8, 2pm
Hours: 11am-4pm Thu–Sun, Fabrik Arts, Woollen Mill, 1 Lobethal Road Lobethal, SA 5241
Contact: 84080400, fabrik@ahc.sa.gov.au
_this breath is not mine to keep is a provocative multi-arts experiment exploring 10 stages of grief, delusions of supremacy and the existential joy of life.
Ten co-creative installations, including sculptures, bio-art, multimedia, painting and poetry, form an arts trail linking 4 public galleries in South Australia Sep 2020 – Jan 2021, with print and online publications.
Artists: Carl Kuddell, Lyn Lovegrove Niemz, Jen Lyons-Reid, Deborah Prior, Clyde Rigney Jnr, Cedric Varcoe, Felix Weber and 23 poets
At Fabrik Arts + Heritage in Lobethal, textiles, concrete, wool, multimedia and barbed wire are used to explore denial, blame, despair and notions of comfort and justice.
Globally we are witnessing the extinction of our world, and yet we continue to fuel our demise, so how do we notice our involvement, disrupt the stasis and rewrite the rules?
_this breath is not mine to keep, curated by Jen Lyons-Reid & Carl Kuddell, interrogates how everyday supremacy thinking manipulates our emotions, conceals systemic injustice and sabotages acts of solidarity.
DESPAIR: Curated as a series of sculptural installations, Fabricated Emotions are emotional beings crafted from textiles, blankets and barb wire to explore how we really feel, presenting works made with communities in response to despair and anger arising from climate crises, inter-sectional violence and systemic injustice.
Lost Flock (on the consequences of comfort), by Deborah Prior, is constructed with lovely soft bricks fashioned from blankets. Deceptively comforting. Easy enough to smother you, weigh you down.Lost Flock is constructed with lovely soft bricks fashioned from blankets. Deceptively comforting. Easy enough to smother you, weigh you down.
Settlement is a giant barbed-wire ball of wool, with knitting needles, deified on a white gallery plinth, by Jen Lyons-Reid, Carl Kuddell and Felix Weber. It juxtaposes the comfortable illusion of the ‘settler state’, conscripting the homely craft of knitwork into the brutal fabrication of nations.
Artists: Deborah Prior, Jen Lyons-Reid & Carl Kuddell, Felix Weber
BLAME: How do we value diversity? Contested Space is a collaboration between Jen Lyons-Reid, Carl Kuddell, Ngarrindjeri artist Cedric Varcoe and Ngarrindjeri cultural advisor and writer Clyde Rigney Jnr, that focuses on visualizing the attempted erasure of Indigenous Australians.
Excuse Purifier 3.0 is a multi-modal kinetic sculpture by Jen Lyons-Reid, Carl Kuddell and Felix Weber.
Be dazzled by catchy songs of denial and laments of whiteness, as this interactive Excuse Purifier sucks in your blame and expunges your responsibility. Voices by Cathy Olsson and Nadia Vernari.
Artists: Jen Lyons-Reid & Carl Kuddell, Clyde Rigney Jnr, Cedric Varcoe, Felix Weber
Denial: Terracotta Worriers: Lyn Lovegrove Niemz collaborated with Jen Lyons-Reid and Carl Kuddell on Terracotta Worriers, an army of unfired clay effigies carrying our collective denial against a backdrop of intersecting catastrophes. The full work of 120 sculptures will be revealed at Signal Point Gallery Goolwa Dec 11th. Privileged, challenged, woke or ignorant, we are still in denial wishing for a normality that never was.
Artists: Lyn Lovegrove Niemz, Jen Lyons-Reid & Carl Kuddell
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Contested Space - essay by Clyde Rigney Jnr. Photo: Sam Roberts
Ngarrindjeri writer Clyde Rigney Jnr performs his poetry. Photo by Sam Roberts