Orifice

Wed 8 Oct 2003–
Sun 30 Nov 2003

ACCA Main Exhibition Gallery
Free

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