What does it mean to be the absolute essence of yourself without being attached to any of it?
Join us at the Museum of Art and Culture yapang, Lake Macquarie for this special public program as we delve into the multiple aspects of the self. Exhibiting artist Bhenji Ra performs with her work Trade Route 2023, a work that was originally co-commissioned by Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania and TarraWarra Museum of Art. This is followed by a floor talk with Curator Caine Chennatt on portraits, anti-portraits, and plural selves.
Event Schedule
- 11 – 11:30am Performance with Bhenji Ra
- 11:30am – 12 noon - Curator floor talk followed by a brief in conversation with Bhenji Ra.
Interfacial Intimacies includes the work of artists Bruno Booth, Amrita Hepi, Léuli Eshrāghi, Bhenji Ra, Aleks Danko, Cassie Sullivan, Georgia Morgan, Cigdem Aydemir, David Rosetzky, and Shea Kirk and was originally presented by Dark Mofo (nipaluna, Hobart) and the Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania. Interfacial Intimacies is an exhibition curated by Caine Chennatt, developed by the Plimsoll Gallery and toured by Contemporary Art Tasmania.
The Plimsoll Gallery is supported by the University of Tasmania. Contemporary Art Tasmania is supported by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts funding body, by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy and is assisted through Arts Tasmania by the Minister for the Arts.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government’s Visions of Australia program and by the Contemporary Art Tasmania Exhibition Development Fund.
Banner image:
Bhenji Ra
Trade Route, 2023
multi-channel video installation
Co-commissioned by Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania and TarraWarra Museum of Art. Direction and camera work by Bhenji Ra. Production by Bhenji Ra, Jen Atherton, André Shannon. This work was shot on Indigenous land, and the artist acknowledges the following as the rightful owners: Wurrumiyanga, Tiwi Islands; Dabao, Philippines; Oaxaca, Mexico; Kingston, Jamaica; Tongva (Los Angeles), California.
Image: Trade Route, installation view at Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, 2023. Photo by Rémi Chauvin.