Buxton Contemporary
The same crowd never gathers twice
Naarm Melbourne: 10 May–13 October 2024
Spanning moving image, sound, sculptural intervention and performance, the exhibition tests the limits of the ‘arena’— the setting where people come together to collectively witness and participate in public life. Works consider the social and structural architectures that bind these spaces, and by extension, the elastic
nature of performance and reality, audience and participant. The same crowd never gathers twice invites audiences to consider their own presence and agency inside the gallery: their role as passive spectators versus the potential for a more active form of engagement.
The exhibition premieres the highly anticipated multi-channel film work RINGER by Melbourne artist Cate Consandine and New York-based multidisciplinary artist Taryn Simon’s first Australian presentation of major sound installation, Assembled Audience. Interdisciplinary artist Riana Head-Toussaint will present video work Animate Loading: 1, alongside a new choreographic commission titled Guided Wrestling in July. The exhibition also brings together a group of super-8 works by Melbourne artist Laresa Kosloff, produced between 1998 and 2010, and highlights the recent acquisition of the iterative and evolving performance work Body Loss by Sydney-based dancer and choreographer Angela Goh by the University of Melbourne, which will be presented during the exhibition.
South Korea-born, Aotearoa-based artist Yona Lee will present a new installation spanning Buxton’s Heritage Gallery. The artist’s steel-pipe sculptures are known for their playful, symphonic conjurings of public space and behaviours, which collapse and remix the usually-separated spheres of the home, the city and transit. The same crowd may never gather twice, but each of Lee’s works tempts repeat viewing.
10 May–13 October 2024
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