Catalogue launch and performance lecture
Saturday 18 July, 2 – 4pm
Free
Join us for the launch of the catalogue for Amanda Bennetts: Fragmented, divided—yet whole.
The event will begin with a performance lecture by Bennetts that explores digital prediction as a form of bio-depreciation. Copies of Amanda Bennetts: Fragmented, divided—yet whole will be available to purchase.
2pm, Algorithmic Omens: Performance Lecture
In this performance lecture, Amanda Bennetts summons what she describes as the absurdity of the algorithmic omen: the silent digital pivot where a body is reclassified from the lucrative wellness market into a managed-decline segment. Practising from lived experience, Bennetts traces how the body in flux is set on an enforced trajectory of predictive marketing, an opaque rerouting from the transcendent world of optimisation into the colder logistics of bio-depreciation.
3pm, Amanda Bennetts: Fragmented, divided—yet whole catalogue launch
Published to coincide with the exhibition, this catalogue spans the artist's practice from 2023 to 2026, focusing on works that use time as both material and measure of the body and features an essay by Professor Susan Best, an introduction by Megan Williams, and a conversation between Bennetts and Williams.
Everyone welcome.
Coral Futures Talks
Saturday 1 August, 10am
Free
To mark the opening of Coral Futures, join us for a morning of talks.
Hear from Hamish Sawyer on the curatorial thinking behind the exhibition, and from exhibiting artists Helga Groves and Rachel O'Reilly on their own practices and perspectives.
Working across painting, weaving and sculptural forms, Helga Groves reinterprets scientific data on sea temperatures and deep ocean currents using materials such as hand-woven fishing line to reflect on their impact on coral ecosystems.
Rachel O'Reilly's moving image work NORTHERN WATERS returns to the Great Barrier Reef's environmental campaigns of the 1960s and 70s, tracing layered histories of activism, industry and environmental care.
Everyone welcome.