Ryszard Dabek, Brett Jones, Melissa Laing and the WIRED Lab an audio-based research group initiated by artist Sarah Last that is focused on the pioneering work of Australian sound artist Alan Lamb. The title of the project is taken from the English translation of the French writer Georges Perec’s 1974 volume Espéces d’espaces. Like Perec’s book the exhibition is concerned with the possibilities inherent in the act of describing space.
The Organisation comprises black and white photographic portraits of members of an unidentified group. The figures sit poised – stiff even – in the darkness. This is serious. They want to be remembered.
Ali McCann’s life-size photographs explore the way individuals and groups are made heroic and glamorous through the photographic medium, as well as the seductive, sexy and cool aura surrounding many 20th Century radicals and revolutionaries.
'There is no escape from the hours and the days. Neither from tomorrow nor from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us... Yesterday is not a milestone that has been passed, but a daystone on the beaten track of the years, and irremediably part of us, within us heavy and dangerous. We are not merely more weary because of yesterday, we are other, no longer what we were before the calamity of yesterday.'
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