Lives and Works (sic)
Adam Cruickshank
30 Apr–24 May 2025
Lives and Works (sic) presents a range of printed editions from Cruickshank and various artists and writers, including
ABBRA KOTLARCZYK
AM STUART,
BENJAMIN WOODS,
CAROLYN CRAIG,
DARCEY BELLA ARNOLD,
XINGYU ECHO LI,
JOSEPH GRIGELY,
MITCHEL CUMMING,
PETER TYNDALL,
SCOTT MITCHELL,
STUART GEDDES,
ZENOBIA AHMED
& DENNIS GRAUEL
This project extends upon Cruickshank’s previous explorations of text as a material, paratextual and performative aspect of all art practices, integral to the process of meaning-making in art. By incorporating text as a participatory medium, the exhibition invites a re-engagement with the ways we interpret artworks. The loose curatorial provocation of diffuse authorship extends the notion of the solo show into an always already collaborative experience.
This exhibition might be removed piece by piece and there will be materials on hand to assist in its periodic dissemination.
Visitors are welcome to participate in the context of sharing rather than accumulation.
"It now seems that the primary site of barriers between “art” and “life,” between the aesthetic and epistemic forms that constitute art’s symbolic systems and the practical and economic relations that constitute its social conditions, are not the physical spaces of art objects, as critics of the museum have often suggested, but the discursive spaces of art history and criticism, artists statements, and curatorial texts." - ANDREA FRASER
Lives and Works (sic) presents a range of printed editions from Cruickshank and various artists and writers. This project extends upon Cruickshank’s previous explorations of text as a material, paratextual and performative aspect of all art practices, integral to the process of meaning-making in art. By incorporating text as a participatory medium, the exhibition invites a re-engagement with the ways we interpret artworks. The loose curatorial provocation of diffuse authorship extends the notion of the solo show into an always already collaborative experience.
This exhibition might be removed piece by piece and there will be materials on hand to assist in its periodic dissemination.
Visitors are welcome to participate in the context of sharing rather than accumulation.
This program takes place on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We recognise that sovereignty was never ceded - this land is stolen land. We pay respects to Wurundjeri Elders, past, present and emerging, to the Elders from other communities and to any other Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders who might encounter or participate in the program.
Adam Cruickshank is an artist, designer, educator, writer
and former commercial art director known for his work at the
intersection of art and publishing. His work has been shown
at various galleries across Australia and overseas. He has
lectured internationally and his writings and curatorial work
have contributed to scholarly and professional discourse in
art and design.