Category: Arts Writing
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Exhibition Essay | (un)Known Realities
There are many films, whether it’s The Blockbuster or the more ‘experimentally’ inclined, that negotiate memory and fantasy by setting their (non)narrative around various ontological instabilities. Characters fail to distinguish fantasy from reality, or are kept from the knowledge of reality and, by implication, the knowledge of themselves. Think Vanilla Sky, Mulholland Drive, Memento, Synecdoche New York, The Bourne series, The Wolverine, Brazil, Eternal
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un Magazine | The polyphony of polyphonies
Originally published by un Magazine 10.2. To throw around polyphony with an unstructured multiplicity and plurality is now a commonplace. Ideas of fluctuating disunity and rhizomatic structures clumsily circulate around the contemporary dialogue, resembling what some now terrifyingly call a ‘classic’ postmodernism. Yet there is more to say about polyphony than this now-normalised discourse, and Polyphonic
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Exhibition Essay | Slow /Dark: The Speaker Who Grew Up To Become A Canvas
This exhibition essay was written for Kusum Normoyle’s 2016 exhibition Slow /Dark at Nicholas Projects, Melbourne. A sound that thinks it’s a painting. A speaker that thinks it’s the bearer of the never-ending bliss of commodified connectivity. A death metal crest that doesn’t realise it’s found its way into an art installation. These are the
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RealTime Magazine: Hearing through capital’s illusions
The exhibition statement for Capitalist Surrealism is the ultimate in sponsorship acknowledgements: “this program of lecture-performances by sound artists is brought to you by the new cultural logic of capital—real, but honestly, also kind of surreal.” A one-night event, Capitalist Surrealism aimed to assay capitalist social formation by thinking through the surreal processes and possibilities
Tiarney Miekus 