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It’s the second week of Return to SOCIAL, by resident artist Ali McCann, who is revisiting her performance SOCIAL, presented as part of her 2022 residency at correspondences, Campus: A study of educational, domestic, and deep dark space (In perpetual flux). The performance extended her longstanding inquiry into nostalgia and the aesthetics of pedagogy into the realm of science, sound and performance.
Ali’s review of the performance archive is presented in two parts.
Part 1, underway, features an installation of sound, objects, images, video documentation, and an interview project. Ali is showing a new series of 8 x 10 silver gelatin print studies in the exhibition space that will form the basis for a new still-life photograph(s) or a work of sculpture she will make and present in Part 2. The development of the studies has allowed Ali to return to the darkroom, as she says, ‘to return to the more meditative experience of image-making that engages with the physicality of the photographic object’. It has also provided time and space for her to think about the scientific process of darkroom making and her wider research and imaginings about dark matter, the intersections between art and science education, drawing inspiration from the SOCIAL archive, her beloved series of Life Science books (c.1970s) and recent collaborations with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics. Please save the date for our closing celebration with Ali on Friday, August 16, before closing at the end of the day on Saturday, August 17.
To remind yourself of the performance, SOCIAL, please press the button below to watch a videography and read Ali's extended artist statement.
In closing, thank you to those who attended our poetry reading circle last week, where we explored Ali’s work and the poetry of astronomer poet Rebecca Elson. An offering of Rebecca’s poetry is provided above, alongside one of Ali's images. Thank you also to those who attended our Art Walk.
Warmly
correspondences Studio
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