Each Action Equal – curated by Catherine Connolly

EXHIBITION DATES: 12 MARCH – 1 APRIL 2011

OPENING: FRIDAY 11 MARCH 6pm

Artists: Brown Council, Catherine Connolly, Kel Glaister and Laresa Kosloff

Brown Council The One Hour Laugh, 2009. Image courtesy the artists.

About the exhibition

This exhibition gathers humorous and/ or absurd performative gestures that communicate a variety of deeper concerns: the role of the gendered body in art, feminine relation to Modernism, the gendering of gestures and concern for how one should perform in film and art making. Featuring works by female artists utilising a combination of humour, the body and performative aspects through a variety of gestures from sitting on a power sander to quite literally inserting oneself into Modernism. These works share the desire to look at the impulse to communicate, what these awkward gestures may mean, the potential of humour as an artistic and feminist strategy, and how the gendered body is used in a creative context.