Event Amalia Pica: 'please listen hurry others speak better'

Amalia Pica: 'please listen hurry others speak better'

Book Launch

11 April 2019
6–7pm

Join Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh, curators of Amalia Pica’s 2017-18 exhibition please open hurry, for the launch of the accompanying catalogue, copublished with The Power Plant, Toronto and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA).

please listen hurry others speak better brings together two threads in Pica’s practice: communication between humans and exchange between species. The artist raises questions of mutual understanding through constructing forums that address shared experience. Illustrations of primate and human social models and interpersonal communication in the publication are accompanied by documentation of performances that enact social hierarchies and animal-language studies.

Volker Sommer writes about his work on animal rights and the initiative to establish a “community of equals,” and Filipa Ramos reflects on primate anthropologists Jane Goodall and Gregory Bateson. A conversation between Carolin Köchling and Pica considers her artistic practice, and Eugenio Viola and Pica discuss the performative element of the artworks.

Get your copy of please listen hurry others speak better and join Burns and Lundh for an introductory talk and reading in the Gallery Shop.

Similar Events

02 June 201802 Jun 2018

'The Artist As'

Book Launch

18 November 202318 Nov 2023

Vault: The Future Issue

Launch + In Conversation

10 September 201610 Sep 2016

Rattling Spears: A History of Indigenous Australian Art

Publication Launch

02 August 201802 Aug 2018

Ryan Presley: Prosperity

Book Launch

27 April 201927 Apr 2019

'Double Displacement'

Book Launch

The Institute of Modern Art acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land upon which the IMA now stands, the Jagera, Yuggera, Yugarapul, and Turrbal people. We offer our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the first artists of this country. In the spirit of allyship, the IMA will continue to work with First Nations people to celebrate, support, and present their immense past, present, and future contribution to artistic practice and cultural expression.

0