“There is no indignity in affect, in infection. We are yet to determine what a body can, or cannot do. We want only to consume you. To permeate and plunge into, to compose within you.”
confluence
Seeded as a curatorial device in 2023 to archive and document our ongoing work in collaboration with the community of artists, writers, and researchers at the Centre for Projection Art, Confluence responds to video works in publication form, to the intersection delving into an intriguing junction where public space, new media art, civic engagement, and gestural interactions converse on registers of creative thinking, art-making, and reciprocal partnerships.
The essays are a combination of artistic, critical, and visceral responses to two of Centre for Projection Art’s programs presented in 2023 – Body-Cites as part of FRAME – A dance biennial and Confluence as part of the Gertrude Street Projection Festival. The artists collaborated with in these programs are ushering in a new wave of gestural intersections by carefully considering and being in dialogue with the ‘sites’ their work engages with. Specifically, they explore the role of presenting a ‘body’ as a point of curiosity in their creative thought process.
The publication features the text component of TOXX, Luna Mroik Gawler’s 2023 film as featured in the FRAME Biennale, alongside works by Annika Koops, Liang Luscombe, Dr.Sean Lowry, The Third Thing, Louis M Ashton, and Victoria Chiu.
You can read and download the publication here.
