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Artbank Melbourne, Australia: Artbank presents and also, a dynamic investigation of performance based, time-based media from the Artbank Collection. 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 reflecting on the period of change and flux, or ‘mutation’, and the intention was to find ways of connecting with artists despite the lack of a physical space. The focus was also a critical engagement with performance-based work. Twelve years on – and also, takes Laresa Kosloff’s Kinetic Connect, from the Performutations series, as a starting point to once again explore performance-based arts practice in 2025.
The phrase ‘and also’ suggests addition, layering, and connection. While each work in the exhibition stands alone, they also speak to each other — bodies in spaces, gestures echoing past and present, movements unfolding across time. Featuring video work by artist collective Barbara Cleveland, artists Amrita Hepi, Laresa Kosloff and Simone Slee alongside an installation by Liv Moriarty and also is a playful presentation, inviting viewers to respond to the many different modes of performance-based art practice – still and moving, playful and strong, past and present – always and also.
Artists featured in the exhibition
Barbara Cleveland (Diana Baker Smith, Frances Barrett, Kate Blackmore and Kelly Doley, performed by Angela Goh), Amrita Hepi, Laresa Kosloff, Liv Moriarty, Simone Slee
Image: Installation view and also, Artbank Melbourne 2025. Photo by Christian Capurro.
