ANIMAL NATION
14 December 2018 - 19 January 2019
Stockroom, Kyneton
CURATED BY SIMON PERICICH & CATALOGUE ESSAY BY BRIE TRENERRY
STEWART COLE, CHRISTIAN BISHOP, KATJA MOUVLIN, TRAVIS JOHN, LISS FENWICK, YOUJIA LU, DARREN TANNY TAN, MICHAEL NEEDHAM, TALITHA KENNEDY, KATE ROHDE, BEN LADEN.
This group show hunts the beast: What is an animal nation?
Philosophical questions surround animalia since the acknowledgement of the Anthropocenic epoch; the recognition that human activity has impacted all biological life on earth. Navigating this terrain, artists Stewart Cole (editioned print), Christian Bishop (sculpture), Katja Mouvlin (painting), Travis Ficarra John (digital painting), Liss Fenwick (photography), Youjia Lu (video), Darren Tanny Tan (photography), Michael Needham (sculpture), Talitha Kennedy (sculpture), Kate Rohde (sculpture) & Ben Laden (durational performance) have mustered around the idea of an Animal Nation employing a variety of territorial pissings. Rather than exhibiting representations of animals, the artists instinctually play with themes of anthropomorphism, hybrids, animal politics, citizenship, animal consciousness and the beast within.
Talitha Kennedy, My hand to make a hand, 2019 (LR), (Lurch) 38 x 20 x 28 cm, (Feelers) 50 x 33 x 18 cm, (Pincer) 30 x 17 x 10 cm. Leather, thread, polyester fibre and silica gravel. Photograph by Darren Tanny Tan.
Talitha Kennedy, My hand to make a hand (Lurch), 2019, Leather, thread, polyester fibre and silica gravel, 38 x 20 x 28 cm. Photograph by Darren Tanny Tan.
Talitha Kennedy, My hand to make a hand (Tentacles), 2019, Leather, thread, polyester fibre and silica gravel, 40 x 25 x 25 cm. Photograph by Darren Tanny Tan.
Talitha Kennedy, My hand to make a hand (Dance hand 1 and 2), Leather, thread, polyester fibre and silica gravel, 25 x 13 x 10 cm, 28 x 15 x 20cm. Photograph by Darren Tanny Tan.
Installation of works by Talitha Kennedy in Animal Nation at Stockroom Kyneton. Photograph by Darren Tanny Tan.