I thought you needed the space by Arini Byng
Sunday 02 February 2020
Arini Byng presents I thought you needed the space as part of a program of new performance commissions at SEVENTH Gallery.
Performed by Indiana Coole, Megan Payne, Otto Ivor and Michelle Li, accompanied by harpist Hannah Lane.
We perceive our body in two ways: as an external material object and as an embodied space, which “carries’’ our “internal’’ sensations. The perception of our body as a material thing is always fragmentary. We can see or touch parts of our body; we always see some side of it, but we can never grasp the wholeness of it.
Arini Byng works with the affective qualities of materials, gestures and settings - undertaking exercises in image, movement and form to negotiate political scenes. Her work has been exhibited across Australia including Blak Dot Gallery, Watch This Space, Neon Parc project space, MPavilion, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Blindeside, Hobiennale, Bus Projects, Slopes, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Firstdraft, The Australian Centre For Contemporary Art, and The Centre for Contemporary Photography; selected works published by Perimeter Editions, Higher Arc, Le Roy and Photofile; and with work held in publication collections of V&A, MoMA, MOCA, and Tate Modern. Arini is of Australian, African and Native American ancestries. She lives and works in Naarm (Melbourne) on the unceded sovereign land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation.
Location
SEVENTH Gallery
Fitzroy
Date and time:
4pm
- 6pm
Sunday 02 February 2020
Address:
155 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy