Feeling: 21st Biennale of Sydney

Susie Anderson

Published May 2018

SUPERPOSITION: Equilibrium & Engagement, the 21st Biennale of Sydney was presented at seven Sydney museums, galleries and non-traditional exhibition spaces: Art Gallery of NSW (AGNSW), Artspace, Carriageworks, Cockatoo Island, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), Sydney Opera House and 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.

feeling

take:

the artist also possesses the power of destruction / mould at the slightest touch / the cycle / against new

give:

raw material aka before even knowing there was something to work with / everything too many times /

take:

ambiguous figures or half-remembered dreams / there was nothing before I arrived / so can cope leaving empty handed / yet

give:

just merge bodies / truly outside myself / it is in love / a way to go beyond form / parts will meet each other once again

A dark room with a large black-and-white video projection showing a close-up of hands working with clay. The subtitles on the screen read “Poetry Volume 109.” There are black cushioned benches in the foreground.

A dark room with a large video projection showing a small figure lying down. The subtitles on the screen read “which is invisible in the sky as long as the sun shines.”

A dark room with a large black-and-white video projection showing a person interacting with large sculpted limbs. The subtitles on the screen read “Sleep is dear to me.” There are black cushioned benches in the foreground.

A detailed model of a large, futuristic vehicle surrounded by numerous small human figurines, displayed in a glass case.

A glass display case containing a collection of small, sculpted heads arranged on wooden shelves. A blurred figure moves past the display in the foreground.

Biographies

Susie is a writer based in Sydney. Her practice is concerned with the distances between place, people and culture, themes she explores through poetry and non-fiction. ‘feeling: 21st Biennale of Sydney’ continues her four-part series of responses to SUPERPOSITION: Equilibrium & Engagement.