WITHHELD
georgia hayward x robert curgenven
18 - 20 October
withheld presents site-responsive works by Georgia Hayward and Robert Curgenven that investigate the histories of containment across The Old Lock Up site. Through sonic and spatial installation responses, these artists challenge and interrogate the thresholds of the space to offer new perspectives on the legacies of the prison site.
Through resonance and waterways, both artists consider the social, physical and ontological thresholds of the cell and vestibule spaces. Robert’s work utilises the architectural volume of the site with the air’s specific qualities (humidity, temperature, pressure) with respect to adjacent volumes via these thresholds, whilst Georgia looks to the river as a conduit between lineage, place and history. These oscillations and flow paths at once disorient and re-situate one’s self within the context, location and histories of this site.
Air, water and architecture are brought into a dynamic and tactile relation with the outside — an immersive exchange through these thresholds. These works consider the limitations and structures that uphold the histories of Old Lock Up site, and what is and what cannot be contained within this site.
OPENING NIGHT x ARTIST TALK | 18 Oct 6pm - 8pm
PUBLIC PROGRAM | 19 Oct | 2.30pm - 3.30pm
EXHIBITION HOURS
Friday 18 Oct | 2pm - 8pm
Saturday 19 Oct | 10am - 4pm
Sunday 20 Oct | 10am - 4pm
Felicity Andrews
Felicity Andrews is an emerging arts worker who writes, researches, and creates on Yugerra/Turrbal Land, Meanjin. She holds a Masters of Museum Studies from the University of Queensland, and currently works as a cultural mediator and public programming intern at the University of Queensland Art Museum.
More about the writer
“withheld juxtaposes the contradictions between the site as a space of containment, and the porousness of its walls; the stories that expand beyond mortar and brick and steel that are held in the bodies and air and water that pass through”
GEORGIA HAYWARD is an artist, writer and artsworker of Mardigan/Maranganji and Anglo-Celtic descent. Utilising the urban environment as both subject and substrate to investigate constructed of civic space in australia and its impacts on contemporary social dynamics and community development. Georgia investigates these ideas through social, spatial and digital practices to engage with polyphonic and polycentric readings of public space to cultivate relational, place-based and regenerative community outcomes.
www.georgiahayward.com
ROBERT CURGENVEN is an extra-disciplinary artist producing large-scale audiovisual experiences, albums, performances and installations. His work emphasizes physicality, our embodied response to sound and its correspondence to location, air, weather and architecture - the underlying significance of context and spatial relationships. His recorded output includes Tailte Cré-Umha (Bronze Lands) and SIRÈNE for his Recorded Fields Editions; Oltre and Built Through for LINE imprint; and Climata, recorded in 15 of James Turrell’s Skyspaces across 9 countries.
“Curgenven makes the point that sounds are fundamental to our perception of the world... hearing the complexities of a place and time is intersected by memories of the familiar which are in turn displaced and transformed.” Realtime Magazine (AUS)
www.recordedfields.net/bio/
Saturday 18 Oct | 2.30pm - 3.30pm
The talk examines: air, its meteorological qualities and their qualities’ relation to sound; architecture viewed as being volumes of air and its role in sculpting air and sound; the importance of context in sound; our bodies' fundamental relation to air and the many dimensions of the physicality of sound
Opening Night | 6pm - 8pm
Artist Talk | 6.30pm
Artists Georgia Hayward and Robert Curgenven with IN | ARI Co-Director Ruby Donohoe.
This initiative is supported through the Creative Industries Investment Program (CIIP) and is jointly funded by Sunshine Coast Council Arts and Heritage Levy and the Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF) in partnership with the Queensland Government.