2024 ACCA ARTISTIC PROGRAM

 

 

From the other side integrates historical and contemporary works, alongside new commissions that draw upon horror’s capacity to transgress and destabilise forms of power and subjugation. The exhibition summons the impulse for rage and revenge, while embracing feelings of vulnerability and unease. From the other sidecasts a lens upon feminist, queer and non-binary subjectivities to consider the transgressive pleasures and liberations of horror, as makers, masters and consumers of the genre.

 

Oui Move In You is a major exhibition featuring the work of Laure Prouvost (born Lille, 1978). Encompassing new commissions and a survey of work over the past decade, the exhibition will transform ACCA into a labyrinthine and other-worldly environment, immersing audiences in the imaginative, absorbing and frequently absurdist hallmarks of Prouvost’s diverse artistic practice.

 

Oui Move In You explores the roles and legacies of grandmother and grandfather, the maternal spaces of mother and child, and contemporary social spaces in which humans commune with the natural world. Taking audiences on a journey from the subterranean realm of the underground and the subconscious, opening into the bodily and earthly realm exploring sensuality, desire and the fecundity of nature, the exhibition culminates with a release into the sky and celestial plains of weight and weightlessness, lightness and gravity.

 

 

Future Remains: The 2024 Macfarlane Commissions is the fourth edition of a multi-year partnership that supports ambitious new projects by emerging to mid-career artists. This edition showcases artists who variously reclaim, restage and reframe specific material, cultural or ideological inheritances in an effort not only to better understand the past but open up new possibilities for our current and future worlds.Engaging a broad range of historical reference points, from idiosyncratic personal and familial narratives, cultural and artistic lineages, to more official archives and collections, Future Remains reflects on the ways that the past reverberates in the present. The exhibition invites us to contemplate the gifts and burdens of these legacies, alongside the promise of their reconfiguration for the future. 

 

Artist collective including members: Fabian Brown Japaljarri, Lindsay Nelson Jakamarra, Rupert Betheras, Joseph Williams Jangarrayi, Jimmy Frank Juppurla, Clifford Thompson Japaljarri, Simon Wilson Pitjara, Marcus Camphoo Kemarre Tennant Creek Brio are an artist collective working on Warumungu Country, including contemporary artists from Northern Central Australia to Melbourne. The group first converged in 2016 when the artists initiated an outreach program at the local men’s centre (Anyinginyi Health Aboriginal Corporation). Since then, the Brio have continued their work, conjuring the haunting wounds of post-contact histories, the renewal and remaking of cultural practices, and the collaborative resilience of a frontier community.

 

As a group of charismatic outsiders working in an industrial estate on the outskirts of town—at once marginal figures and cultural leaders—the Brio fuse First Nations cultural traditions, the industrial materiality of the mining industry, and regional and global art influences to express and re-imagine their cross-cultural identities, and the reality of unresolved tensions between Indigenous and settler colonial cultures.

 

The Charge That Binds presents new and recent works that celebrate the exuberance and beauty of a world composed of multifaceted, multispecies relations and pulses. The exhibition examines how, in the midst of planetary ecological crisis, artists are utilising this dynamic energy to remember, reimagine, and to foster new modes of relationality and connection beyond the extractive logic of capital.

 

The Charge That Binds emphasises our entanglement in a constellation of living networks not only to stress the ethics of kinship but to foreground collectivity and collaboration as vibrant political strategies. Accompanied by a series of experimental workshops, discussions, performances and pedagogical investigations, the exhibition presents an assembly of practices that celebrate and cultivate reciprocity, exchange, and interdependency across difference in both a poetic and pragmatic register.