Anarchive: Gut-feeling

Across installation, performance (live and recorded), sound, and participatory events, the works challenge the idea of art as something to simply look at. Instead, they emphasise bodily knowledge, participation, digestion and encounter – inviting audiences to engage through feeling, intuition, and shared experience, where works are encountered, absorbed and processed through the body as much as through thought.

Rather than presenting fixed meanings or resolved objects, the exhibition centres experimentation as an ongoing process. Works evolve through testing ideas, collaboration and risk – where outcomes are not always certain, and meaning is shaped through experience.

Anarchive: Gut-feeling connects past and present approaches to experimental art, opening up new ways of understanding how art is made, experienced and evolves. The exhibition is part of the Experimental Art Anarchive project – a partnership between ACE, Artlink and FUMA inviting lively conversation with a radical past.

Artists:
New works by Troy-Anthony Baylis, Jingwei Bu, Brad Darkson, Aidan Hughes, Oriana Julie, Jazmine Deng + Helium Liu, V Barratt + Grace Marlow, Ariella Napoli, Bedlam Rigney, Tikari Rigney, Tayer Stead, Shenshen Zheng; in conversation with early moving image works by Margaret Dodd, Aleks Danko + Joan Grounds, Richard Larter (featuring Pat Larter), VNS Matrix, Sandra Greentree Nicolaides, Jill Orr, Bronwyn Platten, Jacky Redgate, Sue Richter, and an extensive library of performance documentation.

Featured Worka by Jacky Redgate:

Jacky Redgate, Chicken Dinner a performance installation, 1978, digitised from Super 8mm film transferred to digital video, colour, silent, 18 minutes 30 seconds. Courtesy of the artist, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne; and Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney.

Jacky Redgate, True Romance, 1980, super 8mm film transferred to digital video, colour, sound, 2 minutes 45 seconds. Courtesy of the artist, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne; and Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney.