Holding Space: Reflections on Creative Communities
Final Fridays
30 September 2022
6.30–9.30pm
Curated by The Churchie Emerging Art Prize 2022 finalist Lillian Whitaker, our third Final Friday of the year showcases five local emerging sound and video artists. This dynamic up-late event will address collaboration, inclusivity, and intersectionality in creative communities. Experience pop-up video and sound installations by Guy Lobwein, Amelia McLeish, Arianna Nixon, and Amy Sargeant, a collage workshop by Daniel Sherington, and MJ O’Neill’s DJ set of gleefully eclectic rhythms. The galleries will stay open late for you to enjoy The Churchie Emerging Art Prize 2022, Absolutely Everybody Judges, and The Interior.
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Amelia McLeish collects and manipulates sound samples sourced from mass media, including television shows and pop music. Their intuitive, experimental sound performances often result in swathes of noise counterbalanced by ethereal ambience.
Guy Lobwein is interested in expanded-reality technologies in contemporary art. He has exhibited in numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally, as well as working as an artist-technician on several research projects.
MJ O’Neill is an artist, critic, and cultural strategist. Her work has encompassed warehouse noise gigs, multi-regional research papers on corporate communications, naked performance art projects, and interviewing Lady Gaga. Since 2020, she’s released five albums and eight EPs, including collaborations with sound artist Lawrence English, hyper-pop firebrand Lâlka, and jazz luminary Helen Svoboda. Her output has been compared favourably to the sounds of crashing spaceships, Super Mario Brothers, Twin Peaks, and Blade Runner. She has shared the stage with Royal Blood, Donny Benet, and members of Death Grips and Regurgitator.
Arianna Nixon‘s video work reflects on escapism and dialectical materialism in relation to queer and trans struggles. She delves into graphic distortion and visual dissonance, utilising proprietary analogue video techniques.
Amy Sargeant is a queer protest artist and musician. Her sculpture, audio, and video work responds to her disillusionment with the dysfunctional Australian political establishment by reframing the elements of political spectacle. She deploys the situationist method of detournement to destabilise motifs from mainstream politics.
Daniel Sherington digitally reframes historical art-making conventions to better understand their contemporary connotations. His works are often circulatory in nature, with images iterated, reworked, and dispersed amongst new contexts to adopt different meanings.