hi spirit, hi matter
Aaron C Carter, Abbra Kotlarczyk, Benjamin Woods, Beth Sometimes & Gabriel Curtin
here are some assemblages and stitchings born of love, grief and tremors of various aftermaths. here are some friends and former lovers. what we made we made scenting one another, with the rub of high regard, with cellular exchange, amongst clashing itineraries and crying diversions, with a call to be altered. here are these makings that wink at each other and welcome the chafe.
BIOS
Aaron C. Carter (b. 1984, Donald, Australia) holds a Master of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver (2013); a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne (2005) He lives and works in Naarm, Australia. Recent exhibitions and projects include; System Blower, Milk Gallery, Melbourne, Flirtatious Energy, Bus Projects, Melbourne, Free Love, ReadingRoom, Melbourne, Summer in Sikas, Växjö Konsthall, Växjö, Sweden; Tutti Frutti Biennale, Sikås Art Center, Jämtland, Sweden; Bent Guesses, Honeymoon Suite, Melbourne, Australia; Fluxus Now, Space Space Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa; Braided Field, Brunswick Sculpture Centre, Melbourne, Australia; Hot Rocks, St Arnaud Street Museum, St Arnaud, Victoria, Australia; A Boot and a Line, Malmö Showroom, Malmö, Sweden.
Abbra Kotlarczyk was raised on Bundjalung Country in the subtropical ruins of a decommissioned banana plantation. She has been finding ways to understand and communicate the tensions between bodies surviving off and with stolen lands, ever since. She makes art, curates, reads, writes, edits, parents and gardens–sometimes all at once–in an attempt to outmanoeuvre the forces that pit us against enmeshment.
Benjamin Woods is an artist who practices with training in sculpture and sound. He explores how processes of forming, found in sculptural practice, can generate attention to bodily connection and ecological interdependence. Ben’s work is presented in an improvisational way through spatial installation and performance, allowing for fluid response to the effects of the work. It often aims at revealing a tenderness and fragility that asks for slowness and care as much as it speaks to a bulbous libidinal forming. Woods lives and works on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Boonwurrung/Bunurong Country, in Melbourne.
Beth Sometimes is a Pākehā artist, interpreter/translator and organiser from Aotearoa. Her labours are concerned with economies of attention and observing exuberance within contexts of damage. She collaborates with custodians on projects that give vitality to the languages and knowledges of Pitjantjatjara and Arrernte country.
Gabriel Curtin is an artist, writer and editor living as an uninvited guest on unceded Arrernte Country. His work broadly considers poetry’s ability to locate and enact relations unencumbered by policy.