IN-FORM Outer Space

In–formal ~ Our new podcast offering, where we dive (casually) into conversation with artists, friends and curious minds on various themes as they arise in our local and global contexts.

This week, Keemon and Nadeem are in conversation with Norton Fredericks about some of the processes, consequences and anxieties in their exhibition, ‘Contaminated’. Contaminated presents new works across silk, cyanotype and bronze in the acknowledgement of our new ecological realities—technology vs nature. We talk through ‘Forever Chemicals‘ contamination, health, sustainability and hope ~

Norton Fredericks is a queer visual artist and workshop facilitator who has mixed European and Aboriginal Australian (Murri) heritage and currently lives on Kombumerri Country, Gold Coast. Their work is at the intersection of science and art, exploring the dialogue between environmental sustainability, queer ecologies and First Nations knowledges. Investigating these themes through research and practice-based artwork Norton explores historical and ancient techniques in a contemporary way that is often site specific, responding to place and Country.

Norton Fredericks 'Contaminated' is on at Outer Space until May 11th.

Outer Space is a not-for-profit Contemporary Arts organisation in Meanjin/Brisbane. We collaborate with artists and arts workers to develop, make, and present critically engaged creative practice in a supportive professional environment. Our exhibitions, events, and programs welcome those involved in, and curious about the arts. Outer Space is committed to fostering a sustainable creative community in Brisbane that engages local, regional, national and global contexts.

outerspacebrisbane.org / @outerspace.brisbane

Outer Space is a not-for-profit Contemporary Arts organisation in Meanjin/Brisbane. We collaborate with artists and arts workers to develop, make, and present critically engaged creative practice in a supportive professional environment. Our exhibitions, events, and programs welcome those involved in, and curious about the arts. Outer Space is committed to fostering a sustainable creative community in Brisbane that engages local, regional, national and global contexts.

This episode features a recording of our Up Late guest artist talk with Archie Moore. In this episode, Archie discusses the early stages of his career and the opportunities that expanded his practice ahead of his major exhibition at the 2024 Venice Biennale.

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Archie Moore (b. 1970, Toowoomba, l. Redland, Queensland. Kamilaroi/Bigambul) works across media in conceptual, research-based portrayals of self and national histories. His ongoing interests include key signifiers of identity (skin, language, smell, home, genealogy, flags), the borders of intercultural understanding and misunderstanding and the wider concerns of racism. Archie Moore will represent Australia at the 2024 Venice Biennale, with the exhibition to be curated by Ellie Buttrose, Curator of Contemporary Australian Art at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art.

Outer Space is a not-for-profit Contemporary Arts organisation in Meanjin/Brisbane. We collaborate with artists and arts workers to develop, make, and present critically engaged creative practice in a supportive professional environment. Our exhibitions, events, and programs welcome those involved in, and curious about the arts. Outer Space is committed to fostering a sustainable creative community in Brisbane that engages local, regional, national and global contexts.

This episode was hosted by Outer Space Promotions Officer, Tess Bakharia.

www.outerspacebrisbane.org

@outerspace.brisbane

Visaya Hoffie has developed her work via diverse media and through taking on a range of roles. Her ‘expanded painting’ incorporates sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, design, animation, leatherwork and a range of craft media. She often brings these together in immersive installations that locate the viewer as an essential and performative element in the work. Her work has been described as reflecting wry, amused and often revealing responses to our contemporary cultural landscape and has been exhibited in galleries and pop-ups around the country.

@vissyhoffie

Outer Space is a not-for-profit Contemporary Arts organisation in Meanjin/Brisbane. We collaborate with artists and arts workers to develop, make, and present critically engaged creative practice in a supportive professional environment. Our exhibitions, events, and programs welcome those involved in, and curious about the arts. Outer Space is committed to fostering a sustainable creative community in Brisbane that engages local, regional, national and global contexts.

This episode was hosted by Outer Space Promotions Officer, Tess Bakharia.

www.outerspacebrisbane.org

@outerspace.brisbane

Merete Megarrity is a visual artist living and working in Meanjin/Brisbane. Her practice explores the intersection between sculpture, installation, sound, video, ecology and art history, and focuses on how an installation practice can help an audience make kin with the more-than-human world in the context of environmental breakdown.

Merete is currently enrolled in the Doctor of Visual Arts program at the Queensland College of Art where she has also completed her undergraduate studies. She has held solo exhibitions and been in various group shows across SE Queensland and her work has been shown at the State Library of Queensland, Parliament House in Canberra, Metro Arts, QUT Art Museum, Redland Art Gallery, Springhill Reservoir, Brisbane Powerhouse and QCA Galleries. She has been the Winner of the Queensland Regional Art Award (2011), finalist in the Redland Art Award (2014) and the churchie national emerging art prize (2017).

@merete_wynnum

Outer Space is a not-for-profit Contemporary Arts organisation in Meanjin/Brisbane. We collaborate with artists and arts workers to develop, make, and present critically engaged creative practice in a supportive professional environment. Our exhibitions, events, and programs welcome those involved in, and curious about the arts. Outer Space is committed to fostering a sustainable creative community in Brisbane that engages local, regional, national and global contexts.

This episode was hosted by Outer Space Promotions Officer, Tess Bakharia.

www.outerspacebrisbane.org

@outerspace.brisbane

Darren Blackman is a Gureng Gureng and Gangulu multidisciplinary artist. Blackman’s ancestors were forbidden to speak their own language so in turn, he utilises text as a process of decolonisation. Dismantling narratives via loaded text, he mongrelises the king’s English. Layers of text are scribed and stencilled into each work on canvas, paper and textiles.

@darrenblackmanart

Outer Space is a not-for-profit Contemporary Arts organisation in Meanjin/Brisbane. We collaborate with artists and arts workers to develop, make, and present critically engaged creative practice in a supportive professional environment. Our exhibitions, events, and programs welcome those involved in, and curious about the arts. Outer Space is committed to fostering a sustainable creative community in Brisbane that engages local, regional, national and global contexts.

This episode was hosted by Outer Space Promotions Officer, Tess Bakharia.

www.outerspacebrisbane.org@outerspace.brisbane

Morgan Hogg is a Cook Island-Australian emerging artist living and working on unceded Dharug and Gadigal land. Through the perspective of her Kūki Airani heritage, Hogg utilises installation and performance as visual representations of her own exploration of cultural displacement and identity. Making space within her practice to rely on oral exchange between her mother and family, Hogg continues the story of her ancestry through maintaining traditional practices within her works. In engaging with performance and installation, she creates spaces of belonging within her institutionalised upbringing in Australia.

Special thanks to Ariki Entertainment, Mama Fly, Archive New Zealand, Nikki Upoko, Mata Hogg, Harry Klein, Tav Pacific, Rachel Feng, Isabelle Virrey, PIMDAN. My ancestors, who we continue the story for. This work was commissioned by Firstdraft as part of The Only Thing Left is to Leave, supported by the Keir Foundation, co-developed by Firstdraft and Beirut Art Centre.

www.morganhogg.com