Exhibition Launch with Durational Performance by IMMI: 22.01.20, Bundoora Homestead, 6pm. Click here to register.
Curated by Charlotte Christie
Artists: Xanthe Dobbie, IMMI (Kaspar Schmidt Mumm), Bhenji Ra as part of Club Ate with Justin Shoulder, Diego Ramirez, and Kaylene Whiskey
In the multiverse all possibilities exist. Artists often ask us to reimagine the world we know into different possibilities; some dark, some utopian, some absurd, some just a small step sideways. Reconstructing reality can often reveal the arbitrary parameters that define our world, but perhaps shouldn’t - and in somewhere in the multiverse, might not. If our universe is truly an accident, how much of it can we control, shape and shift to change the dominant narrative, turning left, instead of right, to reposition the values that define it. In a digital experience and physical exhibition at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, the viewer is given entry into the universes of five contemporary Australian artists. In these parallel worlds we find the artists’ doppelgängers engaged in dismantling the mainstream, each offering us a portal into what could be in their alternative realities within the multiverse.
This exhibition acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land on which it was developed, the Wurundjeri and neighbouring Boonwurrung Peoples of the Kulin Nation, and pays respect to their Elders past and present. The project also acknowledges the complex history the Wurundjeri People have had with the Bundoora Homestead since it was built on their occupied land in 1899. Sovereignty was never ceded. In addition, the project acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Traditional Owners across the many lands of what is now known as Australia, and the many First Nations Traditional Owners on all the lands across the world where this website may be accessed and viewed.
