Opening Thursday 6 June, 5–9pm | Old Hobart Blood Bank & Merchant Store
¢ompo$t | DARK MOFO 2019
Install documentation: Remi Chauvin
Hayden Fowler
Georgia Lucy
Red Slyme Incubator
Loren Kronemyer
Caitlin Franzmann
Lecture performances by Lucas Ilheim and Grace Gammage
Curated by Lucy Bleach and Nadège Philippe-Janon
“I am a compost-ist, not a posthuman-ist: we are all compost, not posthuman”
Donna Haraway, Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin
In response to the 2019 Dark Mofo premise of a forest, we sought to engage with
the elemental and dynamic proposition of compost; as a process of intermingling,
incessant transformation and its potential for extractive currency. We invited
artists, presenters and writers who in some manner engage with a notion and
physicality of grit and exchange, stemming from a desire for mess and agitation -
of bodies, thinking, materials, and economy.
¢ompo$t is sited in the fecund, subterranean spaces of an empty, heritagelisted colonial building of trade and commerce in central Hobart, and whilst built
as a site of profit and exchange, the building was appropriated as a blood bank for
a wounded population during both world wars. The implications of the disparate
forms of currency housed within the building’s architecture have become
enmeshed in the matter of the building, its episodic visions of profit and care, as
well as the associated rituals enacted within it.
¢ompo$t explores a notion of currency as composting - a process of comingling and circulation, of growth and decomposition, vitality, opportunism,
proliferation, and transformation. ¢ompo$t becomes a metaphor for breaking
down invented divisions and dichotomies to reveal the inextricably interlinked
nature of energies, psychologies, ecologies and economies.
Dig into the mud.
Re-distribute priorities.
Microcosms are connected to macrocosms.
Our economical paradigm is connected to ecological wellbeing.
In bringing this exhibition into being, we would like to thank the artists, Hayden
Fowler, Caitlin Franzmann, Georgia Lucy Ingall, Loren Kronemyer and Red Slyme
Incubator (Hannah Hallam-Eames and Samuel Jackson); presenters/writers
Isabella Foster, Grace Gamage and Lucas Ihlein; Constance A.R.I, MONA, Dark
Mofo and The Behrakis Group for the generous use of the site.
X Lucy & Nadège
Opening Night
6.15pm Welcome to country with Sinsa Mansell
6.30pm Georgia beach. A story pulled from a bin. One that spins like a ballot. Storytelling performance by Georgia Lucy
Saturday 15th of June | ¢ompo$t aeration |
Lecture performances 2 - 4pm
Lucas Ilhein - Baking Earth - Soil and the Carbon Economy
Grace Gamage - On forgetting her ambient body temperature
Second iteration of storytelling by Georgia Lucy
Catalogue:
CONSTANCE acknowledges and respects the palawa people as the traditional and ongoing owners and custodians of lutruwita. We pay our respects to elders past, present and future, and acknowledge that sovereignty has never been ceded.
CONSTANCE ARI 2019 program is assisted through Arts Tasmania by the Minister for the Arts..
This Project was presented by Constance ARI and Dark Mofo
CONSTANCE acknowledges and respects the palawa people as the traditional and ongoing owners and custodians of lutruwita. We pay our respects to elders past, present and future, and acknowledge that sovereignty has never been ceded.
CONSTANCE ARI 2019 program is assisted through Arts Tasmania by the Minister for the Arts..
This Project was presented by Constance ARI and Dark Mofo