MOP
2/39 Abercrombie St
Chippendale
Group Work
1-17 December, 2011
Group Work explores the collective identity and possible intertwined histories of the four members of Brown Council. The exhibition will consist of wall-sized blackboards mounted in the exhibition space, which will each bear the residue of a list of people or things who have influenced or effected our lives, written out in white chalk. Each list, which will vary in scope from previous lovers to significant deaths, will be written and performed prior to the exhibition opening, without an audience. Over the duration of each performance each handwritten name on the blackboard will become layered over the top of one another, making them indistinguishable from each other. This act of proclamation and subsequent erasure then becomes a type of makeshift ritual to memory where each experience is given equal meaning and significance, whilst inevitably making them all meaningless; the more layers there are, the less you can see.
