WORKING TITLE

‘Working Title’ took a self-reflexive approach to the production of an ‘exhibition.’ Alia Parker and Skye Wagner set up a working studio within AD Space UNSW which was occupied for the duration of the show in the form of a performative lab. In the gallery space a thin rectangular veil structure was built. The lab was lit internally, illuminating the subjects, creating at once an obstruction and a hyper-visibility as the viewer was able to circulate the space and observe but not be seen. This exhibition format will potentially highlight problems of: social surveillance, capitalist labour, systems of inclusion and exclusion as well as politics of occupation. However, the work was specifically interested in establishing a slippery relationality between: subject, process, object and viewer as a means to speculate on porous states of being. The work was framed as a speculative, open-ended inquiry into the processual and iterative nature of perception, ideation and making. It proposes that there isn’t as end point but rather merges process into the form, thereby demystifying the labour, doubt and inherent failures present in art/design production and critique.

Photography: Skye Wagner