Stickiness describes a material in transition. It is neither solid, nor fluid, but exists at the viscous midpoint. It is fluidity in slow motion. It has a tackiness that retains instead of dissolves. It may be human or nonhuman, organic or synthetic. It is a property, a material, and a process simultaneously. the sticking point takes a gooey interest in the material properties of ‘stickiness’ and asks: what is the political significance of goo?

​Scarlett Steven is an artist and writer who works on Gadigal land and is currently completing her MFA at UNSW Art and Design. Her practice asks What is the political significance of goo? What would it mean for a queer politics to move slowly, to create moving archives, to stain, to stay behind? What would it mean to be flexible but to achieve moments of form before dissolving once again, for unmaking to be inextricably tied to the process of making? What would it mean to work through structures instead of against them? In a period where queerness is becoming increasingly enfolded into the mainstream, how might stickiness—with its memory, its elasticity, its ability to take temporary forms—help think through ways of retaining a queer specificity?

OPENING: Tuesday 26 February 2019, 6.00pm - 8.00pm
EXHIBITION: 27 February - 16 March 2019

WHERE: AD SPACE - UNSW ART & DESIGN
ADDRESS: EG01, CNR OXFORD ST & GREENS RD, PADDINGTON NSW 2021
HOURS: WED TO FRI 11AM-6PM, SAT 11AM-4PM

AD Space is a student run exhibition space at UNSW Art & Design. Managed by Arc @ UNSW limited in partnership with UNSW Art & Design faculty.