Passages

Curated by Brooke Ferguson
Opening Wednesday 2 May, 6–8pm
2 May – 19 May 2012

Passages brings together a selection of Brisbane based artists who make text-based artworks, including zines, catalogue essays and ephemera that engage the spaces of visual art and critical writing. It will investigate how text and language have been used to open up the possibilities for making and discussing art practice. This project explores a range of the ways that text can be used as a graphic/creative form – as well as a space for critical reflection and observation in art practice. It will highlight how a range of Brisbane artists approach the relationship between language as signification, language as critical response, and the hybrid spaces between these sites of connection. This project wants to foreground how this approach to art making can be a productive and exciting space of creative and critical activity in the age of digital media. 

Image: Journal page by Alice Lang. Courtesy the artist.