Intimate performance and filmmaking are fused to explore embodied communication, familiarity and gesture; looking to the breaks between and hiding behind, the words uttered aloud. Jacqui Shelton’s work emphasises the unspoken: the rules, anomalies, proximities and movements that inhere within our everyday conversations and interactions.
PARTICIPATORY SESSIONS / with Jacqui Shelton / throughout exhibition / FREE
This exhibition includes optional participatory sessions part that unfolds over multiple discreet, one-on-one sessions between Jacqui and a participant. The work is adaptable and can be performed in quiet spaces such as a park bench or a library. In this work, a participant will meet with Jacqui three times, for an hour each, and will be taught to recite a short story written by Jacqui. If you want to participate in the work you can book in your three free sessions here.
CODED STORIES / reading with Jacqui Shelton and Therese Keogh / Saturday, 11 August, 3pm / FREE
Jacqui and Therese present both a reading and a discussion that initiates a new collaborative project figured through writing and propositional making. Speaking from the perspectives of two separate paintings (which for security reasons must remain anonymous), two speakers present a dialogue that seeks to navigate a collaboration between two distinct practices/knowledges or, indeed, painterly fields. Not that their collaboration has anything to do with painting, the subjects don’t even know they exist as paintings – or perhaps the painting acts as a mask for their true identity. The conflicts that are produced through a meeting of distinct practices seeking to produce something “new” unfold in a dialogue that allegorically addresses collaboration, friendship, art making, and frameworks for looking at art.
ARTIST TALK: 22 August 2018, 6pm
CODED STORIES: reading with Jacqui Shelton and Therese Keogh / Saturday, 11 August, 3pm
