“Summer on the blue seat”
Chris Mason, A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner
14 July → 13 Aug 2016
Summer on the blue seat presents sculptures by Chris Mason in dialogue with the video work Community Action Center 2010 by A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner, as a way to open up questions of the politics and representation of erotic desire.
This exhibition is presented in partnership with Arts Project Australia.
Chris Mason (b. 1976) has been a regular studio artist at Arts Project Australia since 1998 and has presented solo exhibitions at Arts Project Australia (2002, 2007) as well as Darren Knight Gallery (2014). He has also been included in numerous group exhibitions including ‘2015 Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award’, Deakin University Melbourne; Melbourne Art Fair’, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne; and ‘Outsiderism’, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, USA. His work is held in collections the National Gallery of Australia collection, the State Library of Victoria collection, and the Stuart Purves collection.
A.K. Burns is a Radcliffe Fellow through the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, where she will develop an ongoing project, Negative Space, a cycle of multi-media installations that takes speculative fiction as its point of departure An avid educator, Burns was most recently full-time faculty at Hunter College Graduate Department of Art & Art History.
A.L. Steiner utilises constructions of photography, video, installation, collage, collaboration, performance, writing and curatorial work as seductive tropes channeled through the sensibility of a skeptical queer eco-feminist androgyne. Steiner is a collective member of Chicks on Speed, co-curator of Ridykeulous, co-founder of Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.) and collaborates with numerous visual and performing artists.