Seeing voices
Curatorium Hannah Mathews, Helen Hughes and Francis E Parker
A NETS Victoria and Monash University Museum of Art I MUMA touring exhibition.
Exhibition Opening 7pm, Thursday 1 March
Artists Damiano Bertoli, Erik Bünger, Catherine or Kate, Michael Cook, Fayen d’Evie & Bryan Phillips, Léuli Eshrāghi, Alicia Frankovich, Susan Hiller, Alex Martinis Roe, Angelica Mesiti, Clinton Nain and Rose Nolan.
Seeing voices uses the Monash University Collection as a springboard for thinking throughthe voice and how it is visualised, employed and reimagined in contemporary art.In the exhibition, the voice might act as a metaphor for collective action, for speaking out against injustice and coming together in gestures of solidarity.
It can be a marker of cultural and geographic specificity or the trace of disappearing language. It may also function like a spiritual medium; through its historical recording and archiving it time-travels to haunt the present.
The voice is also an index, a measure of position, perspective, distance and emotion. In private, in public, in conversation, on record – the voice connects our experiences with those of others. In addition to artworks selected from the Monash University Collection,
Seeing voices features loans from Australian and international artists.
The exhibition encompasses drawing, painting, photography, sculpture and video.
Experience the immediacy of the voice by attending the live performance by artists Rosie Isaac and Aodhan Madden in Rio Vista Historic House.
Live Performance
10am - 4pm, Saturday 3 March
Rio Vista Historic House
The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue featuring a curatorial introduction and commissioned essays by Norie Neumark and Simone Schmidt.
