LOST & FINDING
March 28th - April 16th 2021
Bringing community into meaningful exchange, Gallery 17 is proud to present Lost & Finding. Through performance, workshop, multi-disciplinary practice and intersectional discussion, The Collective embarks on a three-week exploration of place; existing and re-creating within the current time.
Featuring:
The Collective
&
Radical Conversations
MaggZ Creative Development Multimedia Workshop
Making A Mess
Symbiotic Reckoning
Way Over There Collective
Opening
Live dance, performance and experimental music marks the intimate 2 hour opening of Gallery 17's Lost & Finding.
The lines of art, movement and polyrhythm merge to elevate the physical space as we investigate tension, body and spatial relation. Featuring local performers MaggZ, Ate, Casey & Mara, accompanied by a live experimental set from Anuraag, we collectively shift the parameters of interaction and community.
Way Over there Collective
Are Collectives The New Podcast? The Pursuit Of Conversation
Way Over There (WOT) is a collective of local artists, community developers & programmers in South East Naarm (Melbourne) prioritising Bla(c)k and Brown folk.Their group seeks to promote the voices and stories of local artists and creative thinkers through collaboration, meaningful programming and paid opportunities. They collaborate on and deliver programs that promote inclusivity and social inclusion, specifically prioritising Black, Brown and Indigenous folk.
SYMBIOTIC RECKONING
Through movement Klari Agar and Jonty Knight use their physicality to challenge preconceived notions of gender expression. Agar and Knight have developed a dialogue, both on and off stage, meditating on each other’s own experiences in self-developed bodies to produce a short movement-based performance. Assigned together with a similarity in lived experience, they use their differences to express relationships of power, desire and celebration.
Kissy’s works display observations of the exterior world and the emotions and thoughts that it brings up within their inner worlds. Both Soul Re-Visited and Pleasant Losing World were created at a time when they were experiencing a lot of confusion and moments spent thinking of the struggles we go through in Western Society as humans, observing people through their hospitality work and throughout the city and furthermore their own experiences with hardship. A tug-of-war with beauty and chaos, expressing themself with words and expressive strokes to find equilibrium between the two.
Gallery 17 is proud to screen NUMB, an experimental film by Jonty Knight that explores the isolation that can come from suppression of expression and how one’s mind can be both one’s scariest and safest place.
MAGGZ CREATIVE DEVELOPMEnt MULTIMEDIA WORKSHOP
Open to all creative disciplines as well as for those who are looking for some additional creative inspiration, join MaggZ at Gallery 17 for an intimate Creative Development Multimedia Workshop. In this workshop, MaggZ will facilitate and share her techniques and practices in multidisciplinary and multimedia art.
MaggZ is a Naarm-based movement and multidisciplinary artist, specialised in waacking - a freestyle dance originated in 1970s LA from the LGBTQIA + community, predominantly involving arm movements. Traversing amongst dance battles, live performances, installations, interdisciplinary collaborations, creative directions and digital creations, MaggZ aspires to explore the possibilities of art and creativity whilst to honour the unique being of self and others.
Radical Conversations: Sex Work & Dating
Openness and honesty are the backbone of any relationship. Especially while dating a Sex Worker.
Facilitated by Dina Scintilla, Radical Conversations: Sex Work and Dating aims to explore what it takes to make a relationship work while engaging in Sex Work.
Here, radically honest conversations will be held with Sex Workers and their partners, boundaries will be discussed, values will be challenged and we will be allowed to sit safely in our vulnerability.
Noah Scintilla is a queer Lebanese sex worker and storyteller. Through creating spaces where people can hold moments in time for one another, Dina aims to make collective changes by attempting to amplify the voices of others.
Making a mess workshop
Making A Mess invites you to Gallery 17 in St Kilda. They are offering a space for participants to play with and explore materials, create free of judgement and engage in creative practice without pressure or expectations to achieve preconceived aesthetic outcomes.
They intend to facilitate exploration through varying mediums and activities working both individually, and together as a group to make a mess that is dynamic and engaging.
Making A Mess is collective of three friends who share common values around fostering freedom in creativity and connection to self and others.
Their ethos is to provide safe and inclusive spaces for people to explore creativity, free of judgment of themselves and of others. Their focus is not directed at achieving particular aesthetic outcomes, but rather what emerges when the creative process is the priority of the experience, rather than the result.
They are: Charlotte, Julia and Krissy. They each bring their own unique flare. Charlotte has an educational background in psychology, a practicing artist and is currently studying art therapy. Julia’s educational background is in fine arts and landscape architecture. Krissy has an educational background in Communication Design and alternative arts-based education, currently working in both an alternative arts-based school setting and as an in-house graphic designer.
The Making A Mess workshops series was founded upon the collective's shared desires to facilitate spaces for people to come together and explore mark making, constructing and creative expression, all free of judgement.
Making A Mess highly prioritises keeping their practises as environmentally sustainable as possible, therefore their aim to use all gathered, up-cycled and recycled materials for their workshops.