Eleni Christou
Stephen Dobson
Ulvi Haagensen
Lyn Heazlewood
Jacqueline Larcombe
Sarah Newall
Jane Polkinghorne
Matte Rochford
Jayanto Damanik Tan
VAZA
From sharing a meal, cleaning a pool, or toying with obscelescence and the mundanity of mass consumption, you’re invited round to reexamine the routines and structures that shape our lives and make up most of what we do with our waking hours.
In our STREETSPACE, Matte Rochford has redirected his personal mail and correspondence to The Tit for the show’s duration, where he will be reading and responding to the material he receives every Friday between 4 and 6pm. Around the corner in THE LANEWAY, Jayanto Damanik Tan has created a series of jajan pasar (street food) paste-ups. Inside the CURIOSITY CABINET, Lyn Heazlewood has rendered household tools forever fragile and functionless in clay while Sarah Newall has created exquisite limited edition TV Dinner sets in oak and bamboo as a form of sustainable nostalgia. On our TAXIDERMY T.V., Ulvi Haagensen, Jane Polkinghorne and Jayanto Damanik Tan look at rituals of care and consumption and role play queer fantasies. In THE LOOS, Stephen Dobson has appropriated IKEA advertising to parody “the good life”, and in THE SALON, Jacqueline Larcombe’s wall hanging pays homage to Acropolis Funeral Services in Earlwood and the dark links between banking and death.
There’ll also be live performances on opening night by Prince Aydin and Ms Frizz, with a zine pop-up by VAZA, weekly mail readings by Matte Rochford, a jajan pasar tea ceremony as part of Queerbourhood on September 4, and Eleni Christou’s watermelon rind spoon sweets being served on our Jacuzzerie boards throughout the show.