Spence Messih

Exhibition
Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism
Continuing ACCA’s ongoing series of Big Picture exhibitions focussing on contemporary art’s relation to wider social, cultural and political contexts, Unfinished Business is a major exhibition conceived to animate critical, albeit under-represented, practices and debates within contemporary Australian art and society.
Surveying the diverse scope of feminist art practices – including painting, performance, photography and film to community […]

Program
Unfinished Business: Opening Saturday Relay
Claudia Nicholson, Spence Messih and Hissy Fit
3pm: Rolling series of floor talks in the galleries with exhibiting artists Ali Gumillya Baker, Shevaun Wright, Salote Tawale...
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Feminism(s): Plural and Evolving
Ryan Trecartin
Spence Messih
Jennifer Baumgardner
Archie Barry
Giselle...
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Monstrous Patchwork: Paul Yore’s Textile Politics by Helen Hughes
...absorbent weave, Dement cites (amongst others): Sadie Plant’s cigarette ash; the eye liner of Diamanda Galas, Lydia Lunch, and Nina Hagen; curry stains from Frances Barrett eating in bed; Spence Messih’s spit; and ‘Kathy Acker’s pubic hair soaked in the tears that mourn her’. (Yore’s vision is less...