YOKE
Myriam Van Imschoot is a performance artist based in Belguim, working through the medium of voice in performance, film and installation. Marcus Bergner also based in Belgium, has exhibited and worked extensively in the fields of sound poetry and experimental film. Tomoko Hojo is a sound artist based in Japan, and works at the intersection between sound, music and performance. Together they will join forces to mount a rare combination of sound poetry, performance and shadow art. Virtually everything in life involves shadows, either physically or metaphorically, but rarely do we recognise the presence and influence of such elusive phenomena. This performance emerges from reflecting on the ancient phrase lux lucet in tenebris ('light shines in shadow') and sets out to transform the performance space into a place of collective observation and listening. The force of the voice in many of its subjective/inner and social/outer manifestations will be the focus for the week long residency carried out by the artists within the space of GalleryGallery and across its immediate locality. And out of which the performance is to be shaped.
Based on a performance by Van Imschoot and Bergner titled YOKE that premiered in Belgrade in 2021, and emerged from a three month residency at the art and cultural centre MAGACIN. This long-running artist and community space in the centre of Belgrade operates from principles of open access, autonomy, social solidarity and diversity. Bringing an entirely new version of YOKE to GalleryGallery seems especially appropriate and fortuitous as it is an art space also running on principles of autonomy, community solidarity and artistic diversity. And as such, the performance delivers a special bridge of exchange and interrelation between these two radically independent and unique art spaces at different ends of the globe.
A number of disparate but inter-relatable historical or poetical perspectives serve as points of reference in terms of investigating the voice's presence, or absence, in the streets and spaces of Brunswick for the performance (these perspectives offer a basis for reflection and experimentation but will not be directly described or enacted within the work itself).The first comes from the French philosopher Paul Virilio who declared: “After having lost the street in the nineteenth century, people are now also losing their voice.”
Another arrives from an act of political intervention that occurred in Brunswick during the depression in1933. Involving the artist Noel Counihan and his comrade Reginald 'Shorty' Patullo who lead a 'free speech battle' on the corner of Sydney Road and Phoenix Street in defiance of anti-protest laws introduced at the time by the State Government. For Patullo jumped on the top of a tram to address the thousand of protesters and onlookers and was promptly shot in the thigh by the police and arrested. Whereas Counihan locked himself in a large steel cage in the street from which he addressed the same crowd uninterrupted as the police struggled desperately to break him out of the cage to be eventually arrested also. The publicity these acts of insurgence attracted and the following court cases were instrumental in having the laws against public protest retracted. The third perspective is from the French writer and playwright Hélène Cixous who wrote in Sorties:
“Voice!....the frantic descent deeper to where a voice that doesn't know itself is lost in the sea's churning... Agony – spoken 'word' exploded, blown to bits.”
A performance by:
MYRIAM VAN IMSCHOOT
MARCUS BERGNER
TOMOKO HOJO
8:30pm
Sunday 2nd November
Previously 〰️
PULSE
SWELL
TWITCH
11 - 28th September
‘Pulse, Swell, Twitch’ brings together the work of Naarm/Melbourne-based artists Jamie Mumford, Angela Rossitto and Gloria Sulli.
The exhibition explores different ways of making by using found materials, handcraft techniques and abstract forms. Rather than simply referencing nature, the works grow out of close engagement with materials, memory and imagination.
Shapes and textures in the exhibition reflect the patterns and hidden processes of the living world.
Visitors are invited to think about the ways we shape our environments—and how those environments shape us in return.
Discourse Event
Saturday 27/ 9
Artist talk, Saturday 27 Sept, 12-2pm for the exhibition ‘Pulse, Swell, Twitch’.
OMOO
Ash Coates
31 July - 31 August
This body of work, Ash Coates explores the parallels between the 19th-century decline of the whaling industry and our present-day energy transition. By drawing from the visual language of board games, pinball machines, and role-playing games, these paintings play with the idea of energy, extraction, and transformation as a kind of game; strategic, high-stakes, and unpredictable.
Like the whalers of the past, we find ourselves navigating shifting tides, clinging to fading industries while new paths emerge. Games, like painting, offer a space to test possibilities, to simulate futures, and to confront the absurdities of our choices. In this way, each piece becomes both a proposition and a provocation—an invitation to reimagine the rules, roles, and risks in how we move forward. This exhibition treats painting not as a static image, but as an experimental terrain—where history, play, and urgent questions about our shared future collide.
Closing Event
Saturday 30th August
Presenting an original, unique role-playing game with the artist and guest game master.
The Voyage of the Grey Gull
A storytelling game of a whaling crew and its sinister Captain.
The Journey:
The Grey Gull sets sail for the deepest waters and the farthest lands. You may see many wondrous sights and encounter many fascinating places and people. But sometimes what happens aboard the ship is more memorable…
Tell us your experience on the journey…
The BBBC 2025
PAS25 : Situation 1 :
PAS25 : Situation 1 :
Thursday 27 March
Featuring performances by:
Kami Million
Hazardous Lace
Jule Vincent
Kirby Casilli + Richard Munro
Hazards and Offerings
Claire Harmer
6th - 16th March
OPENING 6TH MARCH 6PM
Hazards and Offerings is a series of high-fired ceramic and steel sculptures made during the artist’s residency at Northcote Pottery Supplies in 2024. The sculptures engage with diorama as architecture-in-miniature, in moments of tension or precarity. Viewing the diorama as a macroscopic theoretical format, utopic and dystopic landscapes are presented as maps of our present and imaginings of our future. Simultaneously, the work serves as mud-maps to a more intimate internal landscape. For the artist, change and instability felt in the body is translated into form through labour intensive and repetitive material processes. Frozen in moments of growth or collapse, the ruinous spaces of the work hold a stillness, tension and potential. This space outside time is both fictitious and grounded in geography; it’s absence of human form is an invitation to occupy it for a moment.
Claire Harmer, b. 1997, is a self-taught sculptor living and working on the land of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people. Creating across ceramic, metal and site-specific found material, Harmer’s process is one of constant material experimentation. Using visual language derived from architecture, scientific diagrams and geology, her work expresses a fluctuating sense of alienation from, and connection to, her local environments. Claire is an Art House Milton Intern for 2025, holds a Bachelor of Film Production from AFTRS (2019) and debuted her solo show, Beneath the Topsoil at AIRspace Projects in July 2023.
Maybe the title
of the show is
the friends we met along the way
Curated by Sara Jajou and Jermaine Ibarra
13 Feb - 1 March
OPENING : THURSDAY 13 FEBRUARY, 6PM
Featuring work by:
Fentine Gard, Seven (7), Tina Saba, Evie J Taylor, Sara Jajou, Sunday, Jermaine Ibarra, Jackson Elhage, Klau Rimando, Ryan Campbell and Kween Kali
NEW TRAPS APPEAR
LAUREN MAY + AARON HOFFMAN
23/1 - 30/1
Opening Thursday 23rd January, 6pm
Aaron Hoffman is a Naarm based artist, currently completing his PhD at Deakin University.
Lauren was born in Aotearoa, and currently resides in Narrm, her artistic practice is a material inquiry into the problem of embodiment.
Open for viewing
14 December, 10am- 4pm
