Emerging Curator Mentorship: Connecting In the Grey Zone

The 2019 Emerging Curator Mentor program is focused on curatorial research and the development of an exhibition at Blindside.

A grey zone is characterised by an absence of regulation and an indeterminacy of form. Within contemporary performance there exists two such grey zones: the grey zone in which performance is exhibited—a hybrid space between theatre’s black box and the gallery’s white cube—and the grey zone of digital technology and social media, a now ubiquitous form through which performance is documented and distributed. 'Connecting in the grey zone' situates itself at the point where these two grey zones converge, in order to interrogate the function of digital technology in this space.

The project poses questions concerning the symbiotic relationship between these zones, the role of the body and the audience in this context, and the part that social media plays in the current popularity of performance art. Over the course of three weeks, ten artists and five writers will address these questions in order to better understand performance and its shades of grey, and reiterate the importance of the body in this space.

Curator: Anador Walsh
Mentor: Mark Feary, Artistic Director, Gertrude Contemporary

Artists: Arini Byng, Jess Gall + Rebecca Jensen, Eugene Choi, ie.––bs, Angela Goh, Isabella Hone-Saunders and Ivey Wawn

Writers: Eugene Yiu Nam Cheung, Mark Feary, Brooke Stamp, Lizzie Thomson and Anador Walsh

Opening Night: Thursday 5 Dec, 6pm–8pm

Opening performances by Eugene Choi, Isabella Hone-Saunders and Ivey Wawn

Thursday 12 Dec 6–8pm | Grey Zones | Round Table Discussion with Arini Byng, Jess Gall + Rebecca Jensen, Amelia Wallin and Pip Wallis, moderated by Anador Walsh + performances by Ivey Wawn and Eugene Choi

Grey zones is a free event but to reserve your place, email info@blindside.org.au.