Still Lives: Brisbane

Melt Festival

15 Oct-09 Nov

ABOUT THE SHOW

Still Lives is a performance-installation series that captures – literally through rope bondage – significant moments or movements in relation to specific cultural contexts. Each edition of Still Lives is a durational, site-responsive, and context-specific process of binding bodies and cultural objects to their place. This approach allows new conversations to emerge and unveils narratives about local history, political tensions, social connections, and personal attachments.

Still Lives: Brisbane revisits the city’s legacy of punk and counterculture, specifically referencing The Saints and their renowned single (I’m) Stranded. Instruments are bound and suspended in intricate webs of rope high in the Turbine Platform of Brisbane Powerhouse. Still Lives: Brisbane is a sonic, sculptural invocation of punk’s defiance, a tribute to the band that pioneered the modern music scene in Brisbane, and a meditation on how history lingers in the air.

PART OF MELT FESTIVAL

Supported by Museum of Brisbane and National Arts Council (NAC) of Singapore

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Luke George (Naarm-Melbourne) and Daniel Kok (Singapore/Berlin) are multidisciplinary artists who have been collaborating since 2014. Their works have been presented across Australia, Asia, Europe, and North America. Daniel’s artistic practice explores the politics of spectatorship and audienceship, whereas Luke examines intimacy and collectivity, creating artistic “safe spaces” that balance care and risk.

"A near spiritual experience today watching the kind of art that moves you in ways you can’t quite find the words to express."
–Jill Stark, author and journalist

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