Please join us for a special performance lecture by artist and academic Fernando do Campo as he presents The Archive of We.
Fernando will discuss the knotted histories we come across in urban multispecies encounters. The presentation focuses on the House Sparrow Society for Humans (HSSH) archives, an entity that the artist has been working with as an amateur volunteer historian since 2015. Fernando will share a box of slides and correspondence from the 1950s, between the HSSH and the Abstract Expressionist American painter, and birder, Barnett Newman.
This performance lecture is presented in partnership with the Barnett Newman Foundation, New York, and supported by Creative Australia and the University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Fernando do Campo is an Argentinean-Australian artist and academic based between Brisbane and Sydney. Do Campo's practice engages the histories of non-human species via anthropomorphism, speculative fiction, autobiography, fieldwork and archival research to produce multi-disciplinary exhibitions and projects. The global south and the legacies of colonialism, nationalism, modernism and migration that hold animal and plant narratives are a focus for his research and material studio explorations.
Do Campo has presented solo exhibitions in Australia and the USA, and group exhibitions internationally. He is currently presenting a large-scale textiles commission for the Museo MAR (Museo de Arte Contemporanéo Provincial de Buenos Aires), as part of BIENALSUR 2025, the fifth International Biennial of Contemporary Art of the Global South. He is in New York with the support of Creative Australia to present this project with the Barnett Newman Foundation at the Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation. Do Campo is a General Sir John Monash Foundation Scholar. He has an MFA from Parsons School of Design, New York and a PhD from Monash University, Melbourne. He is Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at the School of Art & Design, University of New South Wales.
Programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Image credit: HSSH (House Sparrow Society for Humans) & Fernando do Campo, The Archive of We (zip 3), digital slides, 2021 - ongoing.
