Artists Sonya Lacey and James Tapsell-Kururangi will discuss their new works in Leap to the Place of Two Pools, facilitated by visiting curator Erin Robideaux Gleeson.
Date: Saturday 1 February 2025, from 2.30pm
Where: Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
Taking into account moving image’s traditional emphasis on the visual, Leap to the Place of Two Pools presents five new works by artists who resist or relinquish ocularcentrism through multisensorial knowledge systems. In both making and viewing, how to honour what cannot be seen? How can surety and attachment to the two pools—the eyes—leap and transmigrate to other sensing sites within and beyond the boundaries of our bodies?
Leap to the Place of Two Pools is the latest edition of CIRCUIT’s ongoing series in which an international curator is engaged to develop a programme of new artist commissions based in the moving image. Its title is adapted in dialogue with Anna Tsing, citing her translation of Meratus Dayak Putir performance.(1) Through poetry, the shaman passes the two gleaming pools, guarded by eyelash swords, into the vast landscape of the body, where the world is expansive and healing is possible.
With this offering in mind, works by Kah Bee Chow, Selina Ershadi, Kite, Sonya Lacey, and James Tapsell-Kururangi emerge, variably sensing the unseeable known and unknown realms of oral history, memory and dreams.
Curated by Erin Robideaux Gleeson (USA) and commissioned by CIRCUIT Artist Moving Image.
(1) Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, 'Beyond the Boundary of the Skin,' in The Realm of the Diamond Queen. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993.
