What happens when a giant telepathic cephalopod takes revenge on Hoddle Street's stormwater drains and perpetrators of pollution, and why wouldn’t you? In Amanda Morgan’s new July exhibition, the flatbed is an intentionally inappropriate stage to amplify ocean “naturecultures.” Scanimalia: Towards Scanning for Oceanic Care presents tangible recuperation and with each sucker and tentacle raises climate response-ability during a pressing time of ecocide. Scanimalia seeks to animate stories of making and caring well, more-than-human aquatic beings and their lively, touchy-feely senses, where their blue-green blood and three hearts are staying with a strong present tense.
Amanda Morgan is an artist, senior academic and PhD candidate at the Victorian College of the Arts and the University of Melbourne.
Amanda Morgan's PhD exhibition.
Open Wednesday, July 2,
Monday, July 7,
Wednesday, July 8,
Thursday, July 10,
11 am - 2 pm.
Or DM by appointment, Tuesday, July 1 - Thursday, July 10.
VCA ArtSPACE Gallery
Victorian College of the Arts, 38 Dodds St, Southbank VIC 3006, The University of Melbourne.
https://www.amandamorgan.com.au/scanimalia
@amanda_kate_morgan
Invitation design John Warwicker.
This research is supported by the Faculty Graduate Research Fund, Victorian College of the Arts | Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, The University of Melbourne.
The Bakehouse Public Art Project was launched in 2014 to support artists with activated, highly visible, large-scale billboard installations. The exhibition wall faces onto Hoddle Street, Australia’s busiest arterial road. 10,000 cars pass by per hour (that’s 2 million motorists per week). They slow down for the traffic lights and to take in the public art installations.
C-Type photograph, with Lightjet gloss printing, Fuji Crystal archive super gloss resin coated fibre-based paper, 95 x 120 cm. Frame gallery profile 22 x 60mm, hand finished American oak, charcoal frame, drymounted to KAPA, glass.
Photographic exhibition documentation James HH Morgan.
C-Type photograph, with Lightjet gloss printing, Fuji Crystal archive super gloss resin coated fibre-based paper, 73 x 95 cm. Frame gallery profile 22 x 60mm, hand finished American oak, charcoal frame, drymounted to KAPA, glass.
Photographic exhibition documentation James HH Morgan.
C-Type photograph, with Lightjet gloss printing, Fuji Crystal archive super gloss resin coated fibre-based paper, 73 x 95 cm. Frame gallery profile 22 x 60mm, hand finished American oak, charcoal frame, drymounted to KAPA, glass.
Photographic exhibition documentation James HH Morgan.
C-Type photograph, with Lightjet gloss printing, Fuji Crystal archive super gloss resin coated fibre-based paper, 95 x 120 cm. Frame gallery profile 22 x 60mm, hand finished American oak, charcoal frame, drymounted to KAPA, glass.
Photographic exhibition documentation James HH Morgan.