Exhibition: Anarchive: knowledge follows form
In this solo exhibition, Bridget Currie brings the sleeping objects of FUMA's post-object art collection to life, presenting new works in dialogue with 1970s experimental art.
'Anarchive: knowledge follows form' has been commissioned for The Experimental Art Anarchive — a curatorial and publishing program that critically examines the historicisation of experimental art in Australia, led by curator and researcher Sasha Grbich.
Oscillating between past and present, the exhibition features new works that trace the residue of experimental art practice within FUMA's Post-object and Documentation collection — one of the nation's most significant records of conceptual art from the 1960s and 70s.
Responding to Grbich’s research into the archival underrepresentation of women artists, together, Sasha Grbich and Bridget Currie foreground artists such as Alison Goodwin, Eva Man-Wah Yuen, and Poppy Johnson, alongside earlier works by Dorothy Thompson and Bonita Ely, whose performative and environmentally attuned practices resonate with Currie’s own. Recorded conversations throughout the exhibition serve as an informal guide and further animate these connections across time.
Currie has also developed strategies for “unfolding” the collection, engaging its ephemeral materials through processes of re-making, re-staging and revisitation within her own history of practice. Her approach opens the collection to new readings and sets the stage for a lively conversation with a radical past.
Accessibility:
Free exhibition
Wheelchair accessible – please contact FUMA staff for further information.
Accessible bathroom is a short distance from gallery.
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