Aoide
Dylan Batty, Space One

Who made your work? Whose labour produced your cultural capital?

Aoide is the conclusion of my research, addressing the hierarchies of authorship and labour within art practice and institutions. Aoide imagines a gallery space devoid of the hierarchical structures that dictate authorship and access to cultural capital. By borrowing from Post-Internet theories of mediation and mimesis, cultural capital can be distributed based upon labour, refuting and flattening the hierarchies of intellectual property.

Aoide builds upon the previous shows: Mneme and Melete, each of which was named for the original muses of cultural practice, representing the elements of “contemplation” and “occasion”. Aoide represents the final notion of “voice”, in essence providing the final element through which the preconditions of cultural production are met.


duel/duet
Elle van Uden, Space Two

'duel/duet' interrogates the relationship between the vertical and the climbing body to explore alternate ways of seeing and understanding verticality. This is informed by the artist's experience as a climber, which through years of training has produced an embodied knowledge of movement on the vertical. Whilst verticality in the gallery is typically distal, flat and sanitised, there is potential to extend this plane and its operation into an embodied and proximal zone - a liminal space that can produce speculative, abstract and diagrammatic ways of seeing and sensing.

OPENING: Tuesday 2 April 2019, 5.00pm - 8.00pm
EXHIBITION: 3 April - 18 April March 2019

WHERE: KUDOS GALLERY
ADDRESS: 6 NAPIER STREET, PADDINGTON NSW 2021
HOURS: WED TO FRI 11AM-6PM, SAT 11AM-4PM

Kudos Gallery is run by UNSW Art & Design students and funded by Arc @ UNSW Limited.

Image: Elle van Uden, Anchor I , 2019 , rope, pulley, carabiner, bolt plate, screw , Dimensions variable