Our current exhibition You Are Here Too, curated by Kink, is activated with an evening of performance during DEMO: up late at the Judith Wright Arts Centre.

Tay Haggarty presents Angel Grindr, an industrial-ballet performance where Tay bumps and grinds, clashing blade on metal—a delicate dance with friction and heat.

Ari Angkasa will reprise her recent durational performance TENS (2023). Breathy movement and intimate gaze hold space as Ari navigates the crowd, all the while swinging her luxurious ponytail.

About

Tay Haggarty (aka Angel Grindr) is a Magandjin (Brisbane) based artist making at the intersections of performance, video and sculpture. Their practice is interested in queer abstraction and explores how reductive forms can be used as an open field to reflect upon personal and shared queer experience. The sculptural materials or props used are frequently industrial or ready-made and their work is often collaborative, minimal and site specific. During performance they often use angle grinding stunts to pay homage to the handy leather bound butches who came before them.

Ari Angkasa is an octo modal artist: filmmaker, performer, director, writer, theorist, impersonator, comedienne, and fish. With a penchant for the surreal and absurd, Ari imbues humour in her works to interrogate the statecraft of art and aesthetics in an increasingly atomised world. Ari holds a BA in Sociology and a BFA (Honours) from Monash University and has exhibited widely with recent works showing at Queer East Film Festival London, Abbotsford Convent, and Storage Bangkok. In 2024 she was shortlisted for the Incinerator Art Award for Social Change.