Please join us at the Neoterica Finissage: Closing celebration and performance afternoon.
When: 2:00 pm, Sunday April 14th, 2024
Where: North Eastern Concourse, Adelaide Railway Station, North Terrace, Tarndanya Adelaide.
Cost: Free, bookings appreciated
20 mid-career artists, 20 writer's responses, championing SA contemporary art.
Featuring performances by: Adam and Steve (Adam Birchmore and Matt Huppatz), Emiko Artemis, Emma Beech, Paul Gazzola, Tristan Louth-Robins, and Kirsty Martinsen.Come and enjoy wines by our sponsors, Wildly Wines and Running with Bulls wines, experience a series of new live performances, grab a catalogue while you still can and explore the works of Neoterica for the very last time.
Artlink will also be launching their latest issue: Meet with their editorial team Una Rey and Belinda Howden.
Eco-Critical. Issue 44:1 | Parnati–Kudlila / Autumn–Winter 2024. Editor: Una Rey
Eco-Critical lands as the ‘hottest year ever’ is declared (again), and scientists formally reject the Anthropocene as an epoch in geologic time. How do we précis such apparent incongruities? This issue rallies writers from across our region in response to the climate crisis and how it manifests in exhibitions, works of art and creative activism. As a collection of ecocriticism, Eco-Critical offers a survey of the ways artists and writers are using the raw materials of image and language to engage with these momentous issues now—whatever the terms.
Let’s join together on the final day of this 2024 iteration to celebrate the artists, writers, contributors, catalogue and unique space that make this South Australian artist led initiative a successful contribution to our state’s cultural landscape.
Neoterica has been assisted by the South Australian Government through Arts South Australia and the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, and The City of Adelaide.
Image: Sam Roberts
The Renaming Station' by Emma Beech
A conversational piece, where three questions were asked to participants to re-name their favourite artwork so that it reflects our experience with that work and embeds it in our memory. An ode to most of us never remembering what an artwork is called. Emma then presented her findings of these conversations and renaming’s to the audience.
Image: Sam Roberts
Bodiness: Neoterica by Kirsty Martinsen
Be quiet, breathe and look. The audience was corralled into a sectioned off area, while Kirsty looked at the works in one half of the exhibition and then at the audience.
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Kirsty Martinsen has been a painter for most of her career. In a world of fast decisions, literalness, the need to know and be told how to think and feel, Kirsty is interested in the opposite. She’s interested in the quiet, slow surrendering of a need to know or be told, and the layers and textures of our relationship with ourselves. Although her first love is drawing, the more disabled she becomes she’s finding performance and writing are the most powerful vehicles of expression for her ideas.
Her performance Bodiness: hands like wings is part of the Adelaide Festival Centre inSPACE program in August 2024. She will be working in the flesh with NY-based theatre-maker Erwin Maas for the first time since their remote collaboration began in 2017.
Currently she is writing a horror film from the Disability perspective.
Image: University of South Australia
Slow Private by Emiko Artemis
Slow Private is a durational art performance that explores what it is to be living in a world of constant technology and always "on". Where does our public life end and our private life start and is it all for sale?
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Emiko Artemis is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist who explores in their practice the contemporary experience of self. Using movement and working with temporality and embracing a love of costume and props, they have been working in the space of contemporary art practice for a number of years. Emiko is queer and non-binary and their experience of living with disability and inhabiting the outer space of minorities informs their practice, as does a love for nature, a wonder of technology and an obsession with reading. They may also corner you to share photos of their pet dog.
Image: Paul Gazzola
Trade-Up by Paul Gazzola
A performance about the relationship between value and trade. What constitutes equal value in the exchange of an object for another. As part of the Gold Coin Series. Audience traded items and their stories through Paul, from a single cat hair to stamps, gloves, jewellery and much more.
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Paul Gazzola’s interdisciplinary practice explores the intersection between actions, objects and ideas. His solo and collectively created outcomes, relocate the familiar elements of everyday life into conceptually based performances works for stages, galleries and site-specific settings.
Image: Lauren Playfair
Self Diffusion by Tristan Louth-Robins
Tristan Louth-Robins Self Diffusion was a live extrapolation of his Self-Noise installation in Neoterica, drawing on sonic and sculptural motifs of the work, the entrance seen behind him in some shots. (black curtain)
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Tristan Louth-Robins is an artist, acoustic ecologist and writer working principally in the medium of sound art, acoustic ecology and data science. Ideas of sound and its signification are key elements in Louth-Robins’ practice, traversing the spaces between the visual and aural his work is realised through composition, field recordings, installation, visual art and digital platforms.
image credit Adam & Steve
Ritual for a Rhombus (2024) by Adam and Steve. (Adam Birchmore and Matt Huppatz)
Adam & Steve (Adam Birchmore and Mathew Huppatz) performed a new site-specific work, Ritual for a Rhombus, which marked the decommissioning of Matt Huppatz’s installation Money for Painting. As Adam and Steve took the work apart the audience had the opportunity to view the manifestation machine at the centre of the work. The performance ended with the last of 4 chimes turning off all lights.
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Adam & Steve's performance works transcend conventional boundaries, delving into the realms of time, space, and consciousness. Through their exploration of everyday activities and ritual practices, they invite audiences to reconsider the dichotomy between the sacred and the profane, blurring the lines between them. Their work serves as a catalyst for introspection, prompting viewers to contemplate the meaning of existence and the interconnectedness of all things. They strive to create moments of revelation and transcendence, inviting participants to engage with the profound mystery of being present, here and now.
