Our current exhibition You Are Here Too, curated by Kink, is activated with an evening of performance during DEMO: up late at the Judith Wright Arts Centre.

Tay Haggarty presents Angel Grindr, an industrial-ballet performance where Tay bumps and grinds, clashing blade on metal—a delicate dance with friction and heat.

Ari Angkaka will reprise her recent durational performance TENS (2023). Breathy movement and intimate gaze hold space as Ari navigates the crowd, all the while swinging her luxurious ponytail.

About

Tay Haggarty is a Magandjin (Brisbane) based artist making at the intersections of performance, video and sculpture. Their practice is interested in queer abstraction and explores how reductive forms can be used as an open field to reflect upon personal and shared queer experience. The sculptural materials or props used are frequently industrial or ready-made and their work is often collaborative, minimal and site specific. During performance they often use angle grinding stunts to pay homage to the handy leather bound butches who came before them.

Ari Angkasa is an artist and arts worker operating under a reconfiguring of the Institutional Critique ‘genre’ of art-making and history. Ari has worked as producer for Hyphenated Projects, RISING Festival, and held exhibitions at Seventh Gallery, Blindside, along with upcoming works at Gertrude Glasshouse and West Space.