Summary |
An exploration of the changing understandings of life by 26 contemporary artists. |
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Start Date |
Sept 24, 2022 |
End Date |
Oct 15, 2022 |
Venue |
Plimsoll Gallery |
Photo credit: Stephanie jack
Join us to celebrate 混 hùn, by Stephanie Jack.
Depending on context, 混 hùn (pronounced “huen”) means mix, muddle, hybrid, nebulous, or primordial chaos. Stephanie Jack is a hùn xùe (mixed blood) actor and multidisciplinary creative working across video, sound, and performance. This installation is a work-in-progress exploring the fluid and contextual nature of Stephanie’s racial identity.
From multiracial code-switching, to online and offline acts of cultural reclamation, 混 hùn asks: how do we hold multiple identities at once?
This is a multilingual work in English, Mandarin, and Fuzhou dialect.
Opening event and performance
Saturday 24 September
3:30 - 6:30 pm
Performance: 4:00 - 4:30 pm
DJ set: 4:30 - 6:30 pm
Performance: a bowl of primal chaos
Saturday 24 September 4 - 4:30pm
Somewhere between a reading, an experimental sound art piece, and an homage to Mandopop, some parts proficiently produced, and other parts intuitively improvised, Stephanie Jack and multi-instrumentalist Blaise Garza perform a bowl of primal chaos as an extension to 混 hùn.
Join for the performance and/or hang out for complimentary drinks and nibbles soundtracked by a curated DJ set of Mandopop classics, 1960s Singapore hits, and Chinese hip-hop.
Photo credit: wanjie li
ABOUT MOTION SENSOR
This presentation of the 混 hùn is part of MOTION SENSOR, a new multi-year creative laboratory series of experimental visual art and performance programs, exploring how artists navigate the complexities of fixed domains.
Each year, we invite artists and creative practitioners to present a current work in development, experimenting across art forms, revealing to us their practices of code-switching and navigating the complexities of containers that simultaneously hold us but also contain us. Through a series of cross-art form investigations, artists in this iteration of MOTION SENSOR interrogates institutional inertias, gender generalisations, cultural cacophonies, and people perceptions.
Artists: Luke John Campbell, Stephanie Jack, and Dexter Rosengrave.
Curators: Jane Barlow and Caine Chennatt
GALLERY OPENING HOURS
24 September - 15 October 2022
11am – 4pm Tuesdays – Saturdays
Closed Sundays, Mondays and public holidays
