WORLDING (2024) 

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Brook Andrew, Madison Bycroft, Katthy Cavaliere, Daniel Crooks, Julie Davies, Stano Filko, Tarryn Love, Patrick Pound, Alex Rizkalla, Si Yi Shen, Kieren Seymour, and Batia Suter.

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Worlding is an exhibition that explores a mobile and ongoing understanding of how artist’s partake in the building, designing, and organizing of a personal world through their art practice. It traverses a shift from a being to a doing, and in this sense the term world takes on a less literal definition, encompassing ‘a[n]... ensemble of practices, involvements, relations, capacities, tendencies, and affordances’ that look to explore selfhood, agency, identity, politics, myth and fiction, and institutional constructs. 

 

Worlding is a multifaceted, pluralistic, and inconsistent concept, its categorisation prone to continual re-evaluation and slippage. From Heidegger to Haraway, it describes an embodied, enacted, and active method of world-building; an aggregational process defined by an individual’s perceptual, esoteric, material, and conceptual understanding of the ‘world’ they inhabit and the world of their making. This exhibition is not concerned with the reality of the world en masse, but rather with those assembled through a singular and separate artistic lens: artist’s who are continually attending to a personally constructed, willfully reimagined, artfully conceptualized, and faithfully realized reality – or a more desired one. 

 

The worlding practices proposed by the artists in this exhibition are concerned with alternate realities, memory fields, truth-telling, possible material-semiotic worlds, and are speculative, critical, idiosyncratic, autoethnographic, co-authored, and ‘Post–’ in nature.

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Images by Christo Crocker.