Since we’re all struggling to adhere to any half-baked new years resolutions we slurred to a cab driver some time around midnight on Sunday, why not try and rewire some of your last remaining brain cells through art . . .
1.) Pipilotti Rist : Sip My Ocean
Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist has been experimenting with film and sculptor for the best part of 30 years.
Sip my Ocean showcases the wide spectrum of Rist’s immersive work, from the single-channel videos of the ‘80s, to her more recent large-scale audio-visual pieces.
The Times called this exhibition one of “the most bedazzling pieces of light art you may ever see.” And we spent literally hours in there. But if you don’t trust The Times, or us, then the MCA geotag might be what you need.
The MCA is running the show until the 18th of Feb.
Skin up and taste the ocean, son.
2.) Katharina Grosse : The Horse Trotted Another Couple of Meters, Then It Stopped
So five days into Jan and we already have an early contender for 2018’s best title to an exhibition.
Katharina Grosse is an artist embracing the impermanent, changing nature of the spaces she occupies.
She’s responded to the architectural style of Carriageworks by employing the use of more than 8,000 square feet of fabric, spending months tying knots, rigging, sewing, and spraying paint with a three-meter gun.
3.) White Rabbit: Ritual Spirit
Chinese art was once regarded as a gift handed down by the gods. In this show, a group of artists have come together to investigate and explore the increasing secularisation of modern China.
As in their accompanying statement, these artists are not trying to raise humankind into heaven, but to “bring the gods back down to earth”.
The exhibition closes later this month.
4.) UNSW: Tell – Contemporary Indigenous Photography
This exhibition brings together 17 Australian indigenous artists and collaborators to showcase the diverse history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander life.
The exhibition features commissioned and recent works by artists expressing their cultural and historical narrative through the photographic medium.
One for all ya’ll obsessed with the lens.
5.) Museum of Sydney: Mugshots from the Roaring Twenties
The Museum of Sydney is revisiting the roaring ‘20s to show-off more than 100 mugshots from the forensic photography archive of NSW police.
Get acquainted with all the femme fatales, mobsters, muscle, rats, and stool pigeons of Sydney’s underbelly.
6.) Gapu-Monuk Saltwater: Journey To Sea Country
This exhibition depicts the story of the Yolngu people of north-east Arnhem Land, and their fight for the recognition of indigenous sea rights.The space features over 40 Yirrkala bark paintings and other traditional works that were used to bolster their legal case.
In July 2008, the High Court of Australia confirmed the traditional owners of the Blue Mud Bay region, ensuring exclusive rights to the tidal waters overlaying of the NT.
Art = power.
