Our current exhibition You Are Here Too, curated by Kink, is activated with performances during DEMO: Up Late at the Judith Wright Arts Centre. Tay Haggarty presents Angel Grindr, an industrial-ballet performance, a delicate dance with friction and heat, bumping and grinding, clashing metal on metal. Ari Angkasa reprises her durational performance Tens (2023). Breathy movement and intimate gaze hold space as she navigates the crowd.
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Tay Haggarty (aka Angel Grindr), from Meanjin/Brisbane, works at the intersections of performance, video, and sculpture. They are interested in queer abstraction and using reductive forms to reflect on personal and shared queer experience. Their sculptural materials or props are frequently industrial or readymade, and their work collaborative, minimal, and site specific. In performance, their angle-grinding stunts pay homage to the handy leather-bound butches who came before them.
Ari Angkasa is a filmmaker, performer, director, writer, theorist, impersonator, comedienne, and fish from Naarm/Melbourne. With a penchant for the surreal and absurd, she uses humour to interrogate the statecraft of art and aesthetics in an increasingly atomised world. She recently exhibited at Queer East Film Festival, London; Abbotsford Convent; and Storage Bangkok. In 2024, she was shortlisted for the Incinerator Art Award for Social Change.
Tay Haggarty, at 'Queer Nu Werk', Performance Space, Gadigal/Sydney, 2021. Photo: Joseph Mayers.