remedial works

group exhibition
Remedial Works 
PICA, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
November 10 – December 24, 2017

artists
Sophie Cassar, Clare Milledge, Shana Moulton, Pakui Hardware, Jess Tan, Anicka Yi
curator
Andrew Varano
photography (installation)
Dan Bourke

photography (perfomance)
Jacqueline Ball
performers
May Greenberg
Yilin Kong
Clare Milledge

Remedial Works takes as its starting point the idea that human bodies in contemporary global societies are now placed within a dense ecology of materials, surfaces, objects and substances, that can be equally poisonous or reparative. While recognising that we live as part of systems of industrial production and consumption—usually inescapable for single individuals—the exhibition asks in light of this, what possibility still exists for remediation and healing?

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Clare Milledge, Strigiformes: Binocular, Binaural, performance still, 2017, performace still, Remedial Works, PICA, Perth
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Clare Milledge, Strigiformes: Binocular, Binaural, installation view, 2017, Remedial Works, PICA, Perth
images 5 – 8 
Clare Milledge, Strigiformes: Binocular, Binaural, detail view, 2017, Remedial Works, PICA, Perth


“The lights drop and the curtains fall back. It’s in a black-box theatre, crouching at the centre of a white chalk labyrinth drawn on the floor. A faceless, hybrid being: a wasp, or maybe an orchid. The audience watches in silence as two cloaked figures circle inwards, back and forth, towards it in a slow, ceremonial dance. They make complex songs as they draw nearer to the centre of the maze. As the age-old moment of communion approaches, the organism rises to its feet and extends two long and menacing antennae. As these whips crack, the two lovers retreat and the ritual air is shattered, passing through the human screen to become pure energy: a genie just liberated from a bottle; a great whale gliding through a sea of euphoria.”
Reilly, Ned. “Vegesingularity”. Art + Australia 54.2, no. 3: 11. 2018
p.58 Review of Strigiformes: Binocular: Binaural at PICA 2017.