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Opening event: Thursday 4 December, 2025
Time: 5 – 7pm
Where: Artbank Melbourne, 18-24 Down Street Collingwood
RSVP via TBC or rsvps@artbank.gov.au
Artbank Melbourne is open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 4pm or by appointment.
Featured Artists: Barbara Cleveland, Amrita Hepi, Laresa Kosloff, Liv Moriarty, Simone Slee
and also presents a selection of time-based media from the Artbank collection that focuses on performance in a variety of ways. The exhibition space will feature a diagrammatic text installation by Melbourne based artist Liv Moriarty that will help contextualise the works in the space.
The exhibition is an outcome of Artbank celebrating 45 years and looking back at key moments and projects from our collective history. In 2013-14 then Senior Curator Daniel Mudie Cunningham commissioned a series of time-based works when Artbank was moving from Rosebery to Waterloo in Sydney. The series was titled Performutations. The name was meant to reflect this period of change and flux, or ‘mutation’, and to supplement the lack of a physical exhibition space. The focus was also a critical engagement with performance-based work.
This exhibition responds to the physicality of the space, and features Laresa Kosloff’s Kinetic Connect, from the Performutation series, as the starting point for an exploration of performance based, time-based media in collection. Bringing us up to the present the exhibition will also include works by artist collective Barbara Cleveland, alongside Amrita Hepi and Simone Slee. Together these works show how performance can be many things at once – still and moving, playful and strong, past and present – always and also.
