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Front Gallery: In-Habit: “The Shirt Off My Back”

by Jude Anderson, Sia Yang, Jer Yang, & Megan Beckwith

19th - 28th February

Opening Night Friday 19th February 6pm-9pm

Imagine walking into a shop to find yourself in a faraway lounge room surrounded by lush patterns, floor cushions, and Hmong embroiderers skillfully hand stitching their iconic symbols on shirts. Imagine that each symbol and shirt is unique and that whilst sipping a glass of cool lemon glass tea, one of these shirts is especially chosen for you. You slip behind a screen, and emerge in the chosen shirt. A dancer then places your past shirt on her back and dances a silent solo; a one minute memento of your sharing of your shirt. You leave the shop, shirt renewed, and your old shirt is last seen amidst the embroidery being stroked and stitched where it will be chosen for another. The Shirt Off My Back is this shirt exchange shop – a celebration of sharing, Hmong culture and craft. With Megan Beckwith, Sia and Jer Yang, Jude Anderson invites you to a little retail therapy and to indulge in a reflection of self through a selfless connection with others. BYO shirt to exchange. Fitzroy’s clothing manufacturing industries, Hmong artisan culture, micro economics and gift giving theory have inspired The Shirt Off My Back.

Back & Upstairs Galleries:  In-Habit: “Yara” by Ernesto Rios

19th - 28th February

Opening Night Friday 19th February 6pm-9pm 

Have you ever been lost and liked the place you ended up more than where you were supposed to be? Do you prefer to drift rather than direct? Choose a wander over a power walk? Then it may be that you have a natural tendency toward the derive. A derive is an act of drifting, often through your every day world but drawn by emotions and curiosity rather than task and end points. Ernesto Rios has invited a number of people from all walks of life to undertake and record their derives through the City of Yarra. The findings, discoveries and navigations of their explorations are mapped and presented in Yarra. For anyone who has ever been lost in their own backyard or looked like Alice for a rabbit hole.

Associate Artists: Philip Samartzis (sound artist), Camilla Hannan (sound artist), Martin kay (sound artist), Amanda Wallace (writer),Jacques Soddell (sound artist), Emilie Collyer (writer) and Penelope Chai (writer)

 

 

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