Solo Residency: Like a torrent spills the bed
Mira Oosterweghel
14–31 Oct 2020
Like a torrent spills the bed is a new performance work exploring the relationships between agriculture and Australian nation-building narratives.
Performers Megan Payne and Lydia Connolly-Hiatt, emulate the movements and forms of what I imagine to be protagonists in stories of animal husbandry. The works brings together the elements of Megan and Lydia’s close friendship, their casual intimacy and training as dancers, alongside a queer gaze as a way of thinking through colonial stories of masculine labour.
Supported by the City of Melbourne COVID-19 Arts Grants
With the gallery spaces closed for a much of 2020, Blindside initiated a series of on- and off-site solo residency projects. Artists included Anna Dunnill, MJ Flamiano, Jessie Gall, Simone Nelson, Mira Oosterweghel, Amaara Raheem, Ella Sowinska, Ivey Wawn, Benjamin Woods, Elke Varga, Yusi Zang.
Like a torrent spills the bed is a new performance work exploring the relationships between agriculture and Australian nation-building narratives.
Mira Oosterweghel is an artist living and working on the stolen lands of the people of the Kulin Nations. Her recent work is informed by settler narratives and her childhood experiences of farm life and working in a shearing shed on Gunditjmara land. Selected exhibitions include: Objects for ruminant restraint, 2019 at Bus Projects; Figuratively Speaking, 2018 curated by Laura Lantieri at CCP; Fake it til you make it or you’ve got the power, 2017 at TCB Art Inc; Primavera 2016, curated by Emily McCormack at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Screen as a Room, 2016 curated by Nikki Lam at the Substation, Melbourne.
Performers: Megan Payne & Lydia Connolly-Hiatt
Pig mask: Rebecca Joseph
Videographer: Ella Sowinksa
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