Pains in the Artists: Endurance and Suffering
What:
Pains in the Artists: Endurance and Suffering
When:
May 3–19, Thurs-Sat 12-6pm
Opening Thurs May 3, 6-8pm
Where:
Blindside, Nicholas Building, Level 7, Room 14, 37 Swanston St, Melbourne
How much:
Free
This exhibition brings together four Melbourne artists whose common thread is an exploration of shame, embarrassment, pain, neuroses and the limits to which they can test themselves. In a show curated by Daine Singer, Simon Pericich, Anastasia Klose, Danielle Freakley and Timothy Kendall Edser are presenting their seemingly unlimited pain (and its endurance) for our viewing pleasure. Instalment 13 of Kendall Edser’s ‘Tension’ will involve him crashing through 9 plasterboard walls protected only by a pair of white Y-fronts. Edser says, "It's a series partly about the way I move through environments. In my everyday life I walk into doors, I knock myself on showerheads. It's also about masculinity and the need we feel to prove ourselves. We're judged. Here I'm judging myself on how many walls I can fall through."
Danielle Freakley will also present a quote-only speech to launch the show. There will be numerous pain-dullling beverages on hand.
Medium: Performance
Drink: Anything, as long as you look good holding it
Keywords: Art, Nicholas Building, Blindside Gallery
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