This major group exhibition explored the visceral, the abject, sensual and sexed body. Orifice was conceived and intersected with ideas pursued by the 2003 Melbourne Festival’s BODY program.
Exhibiting Artists: Marina Abramovic, Roderick Buchanan, Carolyn Eskdale, Matthys Gerber, Douglas Gordon, Ann Hamilton, Brent Harris, Paul Harrison/John Wood, Sigalit Landau, Fiona Macdonald, John Meade, Margaret Morgan, Ernesto Neto, Mariele Neudecker, Susan Norrie, Ene-Liis Semper, Simone Slee, Stephanie Smith & Edward Stewart, Susan Stilton, David Wishart, Erwin Wurm
Curator: Juliana Engberg
Publication
MIAF Visual Arts Program Catalogue
In the Press
August, Independent Arts Review, Melbourne Festival
8 October, The Age, Fresh look at the human body
8 October, Inpress, Innies and outties
11-12 October, The Weekend Australian, Hole truth in a body of work
15 October, Herald Sun, Barbaric navel gazing
undated, Broadsheet, Orifice
