Plimsoll Gallery, Hunter Street, Hobart
Summary:An in-person event with the artists, Bhenji Ra, Amrita Hepi, Shea Kirk, Cassie Sullivan, and Bruno Booth of ‘Interfacial Intimacies’
Cassie Sullivan - Country is Calling, 2021. Giclée print on cotton rag, aluminium mount.
Image courtesy of the artist.
In conversation: Bhenji Ra, Amrita Hepi, Shea Kirk, Cassie Sullivan, and Bruno Booth
Join us for this in-person event with the artists, Bhenji Ra, Amrita Hepi, Shea Kirk, Cassie Sullivan, and Bruno Booth of ‘Interfacial Intimacies’ in conversation with curator Caine Chennatt.
The discussion will expand on the themes presented within ‘Interfacial Intimacies’– selfhood in flux, shame, shadow, and cultural hybridity – and delve into each of the artists’ practice.
1:30pm: Bhenji Ra
2:15pm: Amrita Hepi
3:00pm: Shea Kirk
3:45pm: Cassie Sullivan
4:30pm: Bruno Booth
About the artists
Bhenji Ra:
Bhenji Ra (b. 1990) is a transdisciplinary artist currently based on the stolen land of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. Her practice combines dance, choreography, video and installation.
Her work is often concerned with the dissection of cultural theory and identity, centralizing her own personal histories as a tool to reframe performance. With an emphasis on occupation and at times collective action, her work plays with the multiplicities of spectacle while offering strategies to disrupt normativity and western dance convention.
Her work, Trade Route, is currently on display as part of the ‘Interfacial Intimacies exhibition, now on at Plimsoll Gallery.
Amrita Hepi:
Amrita Hepi (b. 1989, Townsville of Bundjulung/Ngapuhi territories) is an award winning artist.Her current practice is concerned with dance as social function performed within galleries, performance spaces, video art and digital technologies. She engages in forms of historical fiction and hybridity —especially those that arise under empire— to investigate the bodies relationship to personal histories and archive. Amrita is represented by Anna Schwartz Gallery. Learn more
Shea Kirk
Shea Kirk (b. 1985) is a Melbourne-based visual artist working with traditional photographic methods and techniques. Shea Kirk has been a finalist in the Olive Cotton Award (2019); National Photographic Portrait Prize (2019) and the Head On Portrait Prize (2018), and has participated in a number of group exhibitions across Victoria. Learn more
Cassie Sullivan
Cassie Sullivan is a lutruwita/Tasmanian Indigenous contemporary Artist. She has a responsive, intimate, and experimental practice that crosses disciplines of moving image, photography, writing, sound, installation and printmaking. Cassie is currently exploring themes of intergenerational experience and trauma, bodily memory and knowledge holding. Learn more
Bruno Booth
Bruno Booth (b. 1982) has used a wheelchair for most of his life, interrupted by a short and unsuccessful career as an amateur stilt walker when he used prosthetic legs as a child. In his memory these leather and metal devices would not have been out of place on the set of some dystopian, apocalyptic epic – not in a cool and attractive Fury Road sort of way, more like the zombies in the original Walking Dead. The experience of wearing restrictive equipment left him with a dislike of tight fitting clothing, a love of speed and a need to reach over his head in supermarkets – as a child he made the decision to use a wheelchair as his primary mode of transport – and he’s never looked back (probably because he’s too busy looking out for sand pits on dark footpaths). Learn more
This event forms part of the public program for the exhibition Interfacial Intimacies on display at the Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania (8 June – 5th August 2023). Presented as part of Dark Mofo 2023.
