Performance: Orifice Oriented Ontologies

Sat 21 May 2022
7pm

This is a past program.
Foyer
Free

PLEASE NOTE: This event is fully booked. Join the waitlist here

ACCA’s bar will open from 6:30pm. 

Advisory note:
Please be advised that this work contains strong adult themes, explicit sexual references, strong language and other mature content.

The exhibition contains loud sounds and low-level lighting.

Seating, earplugs and torches are available upon request.

Please speak to an ACCA staff member if you have any questions.

Join us for an evening of performance at ACCA curated by Liquid Architecture.

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Orifice Oriented Ontologies (000) is an experimental performance program featuring Archie Barry, V Barratt, Allison Gibbs and Sage Pbbbt, in response to ACCA’s current exhibition Frances Barrett: Meatus.

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The mouth’s multiple functions materially and socially link us to others. An earhole is an open meatus into the body, through which sonic subjectivities are digested and recomposed. Sound and vibration leak in and out from all orifices, connecting and entangling in the folds of bodies, disturbing those boundaries. 

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Resonant with sound as touch and sensation which re-orients the body and its multiple haptic and post-human relations. Inverting the Object Oriented Ontology framework to focus on fleshy void spaces, rather than materialist objects, we move with queer dis/embodiments; worm as method, digestion and intimacy, haptic force of the guttural.  With these artists, we invoke multiple readings of OOO; ghostly howling voices, out of office, calling triple 0 of emergency, dot dot dots of texts silence, unholy trinity of voids, moaning percussion of pleasure or pain, language spills of the somatic . . . Through lubricating the transformative agency and multiple potentials of the orifice, we open into a wet and glistening tract, noisy plural passages, cyclical dissolution of the self. 

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Alongside these performances, an OOO digital collection will be published in Liquid Architecture’s journal Disclaimer with works from the performing artists alongside Ander Rennick, Ivan Cheng, Jared Davis and Frances Barrett, which further chews and stretches our bodily communications.

 

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