Towards an Affective Measure 2021
single-channel audio installation; 6 minutes 19 seconds, looped 3 whiteboards and carpet tiles,
sound design: Alyx Dennison and Evelyn Ida Morris
whiteboard drawings: Queering Accounting initiative.

Towards an Affective Measure by was created for Language Is a River and developed from a residency the artist undertook with Monash Business School in May 2021. The installation combines the material aesthetic of the artist’s temporary residency office with an audio narrative that Rodigari has based on phrases and remarks collected during walking conversations with Monash accounting academics. A technique that has become core to Rodigari’s practice, the artist’s crowd-sourced and collective commentaries work as exhibits of social/academic discourse as well as capsule demonstrations of the self formed in dialogue. This new work continues Rodigari’s interest in themes of art, work, labour and value as an allegorical tale of late-stage capitalism.

The drawings in this installation have been contributed by academics from the Queering Accounting initiative including Associate Professor Nick McGuigan, Dr Lisa Powell (both Monash Business School) and Dr Alessandro Ghio (Université Laval, Québec).

Towards And Affective Measure Install Audio

This time last week I was on a plane flying to Hobart, to attend and participate in Touchy Feely, an exhibition as well as fours evening of artist talks.  On the first evening the 11 participating artist were asked to introduce themselves in a short Pecha Kucha style talk about their practice. We were invited to consider this in relation to the topic of sentimentality and Touchy Feely-ness in Social Practice.

The following podcast is my response to this request.

Please note this was a cheeky presentation working within the entertaining constraints of the Pecha Kucha time frame. Due to this, the greater context of why and how certain projects were problematised have been omitted. I would also like to acknowledge that the Artistic Director of Campbelltown Arts Centre, Michael Dagostino, responded to my request in good faith saying  that he would have participated in the project if he hadn't been so busy. Finally in the talk I am only able to hint at the depth of engagement that the project SiteLab has had with local communities groups in and around Minto under the vision of curator Rosie Dennis which in my mind can be likened to projects such as Project Row Houses.



Pecah Kucha Talk

Composition for Eight Voices (Withdrawal)

was commissioned for the exhibition OK Democracy: we need to talk at
Campbelltown Arts Centre in May 2019. The work is composed from eight walking conversations conducted in Paris, Sydney and Melbourne over a six-month period with an anarchist, a poet, a political economist, a journalist, a choreographer, a dancer and a critic. The conversations have been abstracted into a polyphonic score addressing ideas of labour, strike, protest, democracy, voice and representation. 

 Four of the prints are presented as C, M, Y,K colour separations to represent a specific tone of conversation (discourse, diatribe, debate and Dialogue). These in turn create four distinct poems, which
also double as scores for a four-channel sound installation where each speaker sounds the voice of an assigned colour. The fifth print, combining the C, M, Y, K separations, brings all the voices together visually in full colour, and also audibly to produce a polyphonic soundscape in the gallery.

Text: Sarah
Rodigari with Esther Anatolitis, Elizabeth Humphrys, Erik Jensen, Myriam Lefkowitz, Sabrina Soyer, Kai Simon Stoeger, Beth Weinstein, and Joel White

Graphic Design and Concept: Ella Sutherland 
Sound Production: Tim Bruniges Photos: Document Photography

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