MONO 40

After a year of unsteadiness, false starts, and other frustrations, we cast our ears close to home and finish MONO’s 2021 actions with a sense of resilient determination and persistent aspiration.

Across three sets, some of Brisbane’s most evocative artists create a series of transcendent sonic microcosms. Naomi Blacklock, whose works explode outward through embodied performance, cultural heritage, and gender identity, conjures a ritualistic sounding in the moment. Eugene Carchesio finds acoustic patterns in repeated forms, minimal geometries, and circular waves, and siblings Caitlin Franzmann & Helen Franzmann (McKisko) join together for an improvisation, creating an intimate layering of time and place, sourced from found tapes, field recordings, voice and percussion.