Curators Edouard Kopp and Shelley Langdale.

Ruth Asawa's drawings, "The Anxious Eye"

Holiday clips: Kahlil Robert Irving

Curator Dita Amory, artist Isabelle Frances McGuire

Matisse & Derain, Isabelle Frances McGuire

Artist Patrick Martinez, author Nell Irvin Painter.

Patrick Martinez, Nell Irvin Painter

Curator Anne-Lise Desmas and author Jim Moske.

Camille Claudel, "Death of Artists"

The discussion recorded in Autumn 2023 is complemented by readings from Innominate by Pearce and Ill Feelings by Hattrick. These works reflect on the character of "queer evidence" and their shared interest in blending autobiography with historical narrative

Conversations: Naomi Pearce and Alice Hattrick

This episode marks the launch of Hedva's latest book, Your Love is Not Good. It features a reading and discussion with esteemed art critic Philippa Snow. The episode provides an insightful exchange, bridging literature, art, and contemporary issues at the time of recording in Autumn 2023.

Conversations: Johanna Hedva and Phillipa Snow

Steven Warwick, Aurelia Guo, and Matt Williams explore the overlapping social architectures shaping contemporary debates on the characteristics of good and evil. Their discussion recorded in Winter 2023 coincides with the release of Notes on Evil, a recent publication by Floating Opera Press that examines evil, its categorisation, understanding, and application.

Conversations: Steven Warwick and Annie Goh with Matt Williams

Art historian Richard Shiff, art historian and curator Michelle White.

Remembering Richard Serra

Curators Denise Murrell and Larisa Grollemond.

The Harlem Renaissance, Blood: Medieval/Modern

8 April 2020
Agatha Gothe-Snape

These devices are the narrow gate through which your metabolism passes.1 They are also the doorways through which the world outside now travels through to you. The door is one of the most basic of all cultural techniques, being a switch that constitutes inside and outside spaces.2 The door gives humans the ability to both separate and to connect, to divide or conjoin what is inside and what is out, what is personal territory and what belongs to the wider world. As limina or thresholds, doors not only demarcate and delimit, but also allow the joining of different spaces.3

As we close physical doorways in acts of solidarity, love and collective care, I have left this virtual door ajar4 in the hope that something may still pass through. So that something of another realm may flow into our concrete material world. Or verso, that a concrete world, no longer physically accessible, is animated in that most private and electric of places—the imagination.

If you choose, consider putting on headphones, closing your eyes as you allow this exhibition to accumulate via the linked audio file. The longer and slower you listen, the more uncertainty you listen with, the more this world will bloom.

The full details of each work are available in the linked PDF:
https://www.monash.edu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/2171455/AGS_03_Works-List.pdf

Composition and sound design by Alyx Dennison, 1–7 April 2020, including fragments of Wet Matter, 2020 (composition and sound design by Evelyn Ida Morris with contributions from Alyx Dennison, Brian Fuata, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Evelyn Ida Morris, Lizzie Thomson); extracted Microsoft PowerPoint sound effects; at-home iPhone recording of select names from Every Artist Remembered, 2009, by Agatha Gothe-Snape; and an extract of Five Columns, 2019, by Wrong Solo with Sonya Holowell, Ruark Lewis, Sarah Rodigari, Brooke Stamp and Lizzie Thomson.

Agatha Gothe-Snape is represented by The Commercial, Sydney.

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1 John Durham Peters, The Marvelous Clouds, Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2015, p. 26.
2 Ibid., p. 152.
3 Georgina Cole, ‘Painting the Threshold: Doors, Space and Representation in Eighteenth-Century Genre Painting’, PhD diss., University of Sydney, 2010.
4 To borrow from artist Mitchel Cumming’s project AJAR, https://cargocollective.com/mitchelcumming/AJAR.

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