FPS is a peek behind a sheer curtain, gazing into the close relationships between the global military industry and the video games that work closely with them. First Person Shooters (FPS) is the genre of choice for military shooters, allowing one to play from the first-person POV of a soldier looking down the sights of a gun and pulling the trigger.
Nelson Nghe aims to illuminate the often "invisible" nature of gambling harm, especially its impact on loved ones. Through evocative found objects and images, Nghe reimagines hidden domestic moments, exploring the emotional toll that gambling harm inflicts on those indirectly affected.
Garden Variety Dykes is a group show inspired by the PDF of the same name; ‘Garden Variety Dykes: Lesbian Traditions in Gardening’ edited by Irene Reti and Valerie Jean Chase in 1994. This exhibition dives into queer ecologies, puts forward questions surrounding the continuation of a queer linage in climate activism and explores sapphic yearning in the garden space.
In an era of increasing polarisation, political, cultural, social, and economic, a question arises: why don’t those seeking genuine change engage more with those who think differently? People often voice their beliefs within familiar circles, both online and in person, reinforcing opposition rather than encouraging understanding.
Join us from 2-4pm on Saturday 29 March for artist talks with the artists of the March/April exhibitions, including Tay Haggarty, Abbra Kotlarczyk, Tiana Jefferies, Seren Wagstaff, Amy Sargeant, Annie Monks, Nelson Nghe, Jack Hodges and Nolan Ho Wung Murphy.
Make your body-safe, usable eco pleasure toy while exploring sensory pleasure and the Indigenous practice of inner deep listening through clay.
Join us from 6-8 pm for the opening of four new exhibitions including 3 solo exhibitions by Nelson Nghe, Jack Hodges and Nolan Ho Wung Murphy and a group exhibition with Tay Haggarty, Abbra Kotlarczyk, Tiana Jefferies, Seren Wagstaff, Amy Sargeant and Annie Monks.
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Taking its title from the Latin word lectus, meaning 'to read', this exhibition aims to think through the ways that we transmit and receive information and how it is simultaneously withheld from us.
Haunting In Kensington hints at the magic-in-the-messiness of queer kin-fields and deep-seeded fag geographies.
Circling the Sun examines the diverse techniques utilised by artists to capture and visualise the sun.
Lesser palace explores ideas of ‘oceanic feeling’, and imagines ways of being in the world that rely less on notions of discrete selfhood, and more on porosity, kinship, and affective encounter.
Curated by Katie Winten
After hitting the streets of Kings Cross and Wolloomooloo, join us at Firstdraft where we’ll be partying into the night.
Saturday 21.09.19
12- 4pm
Lunch provided
12- 1pm
Eleanor Ivory Weber performing Minor as irritant to enjoyment and Samia Sayed’s installation Remembering to never forget the olives that you fed me.
Eleanor Ivory Weber
What is presented here is part of Eleanor’s ongoing work of Sub Text Labour, which is an approach to writing that is time-based and "sobjective" - post-conceptual, maybe - where playful editing protocols are applied to existing texts, often from theoretical or media sources, to show what is latent in them. A reading-writing with others of uncertain authorship.
Eleanor Ivory Weber are a writer and an editor working in the intersections of contemporary visual arts, performance and poetry. Nor teaches art theory at Erg (école de recherche graphique—école supérieure des arts), Brussels, and is co-director of Divided Publishing. They are currently writers-in-residence at Firstdraft, Sydney.
Samia Sayed
Remembering to never forget the olives that you fed me is a participatory installation which invites audiences to engage with an offering of written and spoken word that unpacks trans-generational exchanges and resistance against the erasure of non-anglo phonic languages. This work becomes a portal into negotiations of language as a first generation migrant between multiple worlds set against the backdrop of a culture that heralds multiculturalism but denies multilingualism. This work was developed with the support of Mona Sayed and Dj Gemma.
Samia Sayed is a contemporary artist and writer, currently living and working on Darrug and Gadigal land. She works with text, sound and performance and through this explores what she has lived through and witnessed to be forms of resistance within domestic, religious and cultural spheres.
2- 4pm
Programmed by exhibition curator Jonno Revanche, the afternoon will feature reflections on the show. Read more about “Before the tonsils stop” here.
2-3pm Readings from Tiffany Tsao and Anuran De Silva
Please be aware that this work includes potentially triggering material: discussion of sexual violence/assault.
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