Tara Gilbee sculpture forefront Shield, 2023, dimensions 5cm x 3cm approx.
Karla Pringle large print and sculpture at background.- Mystic Radio, 2023,
Silk and wool, sustainable natural fabric, non-toxic reactive dye, 165
h x 137 w and This is the sound of me holding your hand loving
you, 2023, dimensions variable. Collaborative video in middle ground.
Image credit Yiorgo Yiannopoulos
Forest Telephonists
Airspace Gallery ,Marackville, Sydney
November 1st – November 21 2023
https://www.airspaceprojects.com.au/november-2023/2023/11/1/karla-pringle-and-tara-gilbee
Karla and Tara have chosen to act as a type of message bank to several environments. Their bodies, negotiating the space of long-term illnesses, have become formidable readers of nuanced atmospheric phenomena. The artists trace and process a deeper temporal space for themselves. A connected sensous proxy for what is absent as much as what may be present. They message each other, not with words but with affects sent from theirrespective umwelten. Hoping the deep time and scale between them can make sense of signs they are only just learning to speak, or maybe, remember.
Collaborative Video installation edited by Karla Pringle featuring works by Tara Gilbee and Karla Pringle. Image credit Yiorgo Yiannopoulos
Gathering notes, dense with information, (that they may – or may not understand) Karla and Tara witness themselves moving and making with the knowledge of their deep interrelatedness and the whisperings of their endosymbiotic bodies.
This language is not theirs, it’s a language of biomes, deep time, of space, and place. Their behaviours transcribe biotal interfaces into acts, and they move and morph into open switchboards for their environments.
They had hoped they would overhear themselves- and understand something new. But they have come to believe their interoceptive relationships with place – a convergence of signs and languages from an array of beings – may not be speaking to their consciousness. Instead these entangled languages move them, and they begin to see they aren’t the operators, but the signals themselves, waiting to be reconnected…
https://vimeo.com/887563506/privacy
you, 2023, dimensions variable. Airspace Projects Marrickville NSW. Image credit Yiorgo Yiannopoulos
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