In Other Words

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• Chelsea Farquhar ›
• Cristina Dawn ›
• Emily Arenas Zarate ›
• Freda Drakopoulos ›
• MaggZ ›
• Torre Alain ›

• Rather than attempting to provide answers, Chelsea Farquhar’s process-driven practice engages with ideas around learning and the unknown. Positioning artmaking as analogous to ectoplasm—the materialised substance produced from the body of a medium during a séance—Chelsea’s work is full of contradictions, uncertainty, and cross-dimensional exchanges.
• I’m so evanescent right now / Tender, fragrant, hardhearted / I’m not pretty when I cry / I’m pretty just after / Gasping wounds / Violent compassion / Bedside therapy and treat me like a piece of meat / Or nothing / You either eat your greens or throw yourself out the window / I only want to die alive
• Emily Arenas Zarate calls into question and builds upon the translation of globalised mnemonic milieu; tools of touch and repetition mediate between physical and digital to reveal a mythos of present-day relics imbued with the production, distribution, and circulation of time & myth within our collective parallels.
• Freda Drakopoulos is an artist based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. Freda’s work revolves around various states of transition. These states are transcended through a performance-based integration. Often paradoxical in nature, acts/actions, are used to examine objects, sculpture, text, matter, material, and embodiment, through desmological investigations and engagements.
• MaggZ is a Naarm-based queer Chinese movement artist, creative director, and producer. They specialise in waacking, a freestyle dance originating in 1970s LA from the latinix and African American queer communities, predominantly involving arm movements. Traversing street dance battles, performances, installations, creative direction, and producing, MaggZ’s practice aspires to honour lived experience through transdisciplinary explorations.
• The flower that develops underground has its own advantages of low-resource growth, security against predators, and circulation within subterranean ecologies. Torre Alain’s work is one such flower that grows and mutates below ground until conditions on the earth’s surface and the heart’s desires cause it to rise as a sudden flower of flame.