Presented by Platform and Midsumma
Artists: Monika Tichacek (Sydney), Tejal Shah (India), Jake Wotherspoon (Melbourne), Drew Pettifer (Melbourne), Fran Barrett, Kate Blackmore & Anastasia Zaravinos (Sydney), Liam Benson (Sydney), 4evamore (Melbourne), Michelle Tran (Melbourne), Gerard O’Connor & Marc Wasiak (Melbourne).
Platform Artists Group Inc.
Degraves Street Subway (Campbell Arcade) Melbourne
25 January – 6 February 2010
www.platform.org.au
Re/Gendered brought together a number of high profile international and Australian artists in a group exhibition that celebrated the notion of fluid or 'unstable' gender. Set in a public thoroughfare beneath Flinders Street train station, the exhibition and accompanying performances aimed to transgress and blur the boundaries of binary gender. In turns joyful, disturbing, and deliberately ambiguous, the selected artworks expose the theatricality involved in our everyday performance of gender roles.
*The Opening Night, 6- 9pm Monday 25 January, included queer drag performances from guests including Mzzz Erin Tasmania, Ghetto Pussy, Liam Benson, 4evamore, Agent Cleave, Godzilla and Mummy Complex.
This was the final exhibition developed as part of my 2009 Curator In Residence at Platform.
DOCUMENTATION OF OPENING NIGHT EVENT:
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IMAGES
Exhibition (images clockwise from left):
Monika Tichacek
"Lineage of the Divine"
Video installation, 21:22 minutes
© 2002
Jake Wotherspoon
"Fiona" and "Kate"
photoprint with hair
© 2009
Opening Performance
artist, glue, hair collection, electric fan
variable dimensions
© 2010
Michelle Tran
"Vinh" and "Untitled"
Photographic prints
© 2010
Gerard O' Connor and Marc Wasiak
Installation
Photographic prints, fabric, paint.
© 2010
Fran Barrett, Kate Blackmore, Anastasia Zaravinos
"Drag Acts"
Video installation
© 2010
Liam Benson
"True Blue"
Video installation, sequins, necklace
© 2009
"Thank you Carrie"
Photographic installation, sequins, necklace
© 2009
Tejal Shah with Marco Paulo Rolla (Brazil)
"Trans"
Dual channel video installation
12 min, colour, sound,
© 2005
Drew Pettifer
"Fluid"
Photographic prints, black acylic paint
© 2010
4evamore
"Mechandise"
video documentation, posters, underwear, signage
© 2010
