Magnesite Norway

Kusum Normoyle

1 Feb 2020–30 Apr 2021

In the wake of the severe bushfires still raging, Magnesite Norway is an inversion. It’s lush, green scream a balm for all the burnt red and black we’ve been bombarded by. We witness Kusum Normoyle grounding herself through feedback and amplification. Throwing her body and her voice into a site with fierce potency. A giving of ecstatic energy without expectation of return. With Mette Rasmussen improvising on alto sax, they are drowned out in part by the authority of the landscape; an acknowledgment of the grandeur and tenacity of water, rock and air.

Online, Exhibition, Satellite

Overview

Referencing the multiple locations of the project, Satellite is a screen-based public art project that exists across multiple public locations in Melbourne (AUS), Sydney (AUS) and Auckland (NZ) simultaneously. The project examines notions of the public space, specifically the public square, and what it means for art to occupy these spaces and connect physically disparate audiences through a collective experience.

In the wake of the severe bushfires still raging, Magnesite Norway is an inversion. It’s lush, green scream a balm for all the burnt red and black we’ve been bombarded by.

Key Dates

In-gallery launch: 6 Feb 2020, 7am–9am

Acknowledgment

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.

Biographies

Kusum Normoyle is a musician and artist working with voice for performance, video and installation. She takes screaming, feedback, resonance and intervention and puts them to work in gallery, experimental and dance music contexts. Her work investigates aesthetic and literal expressions of the voice and body, through sound materials, noise making and their relationship to location and environment.

Her work has been included in numerous national and international galleries and events including TarraWarra Biennial 2018: From Will to Form, MAAS/The Wellcome Collection, The Substation, Bergen Kunsthall, Dark MOFO, Red Bull Music Academy, Artspace Sydney, Primavera: Young Australian Artists, MCA Sydney, Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize, ISSUE Project Room NYC, SuperDeluxe at Artspace for the 17th Biennale of Sydney, Liquid Architecture, N.K Berlin, UrBANGUILD JPN, Biennial of Graphic Art, Slovenia, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, City Gallery Wellington.

She has on-going collaborative music projects with Ivan Lisyak as techno HVISKE and Peter Blamey in Hard Hat.

Curators

Bridie Lunney Bridie Lunney develops her works in relation to the site of presentation, engaging the given context, physical conditions, and poetics. Combining practices of architectural interventions, sculpture, and durational performance, Lunney acknowledges the body as a conduit between our psychological selves and the physical world. She has exhibited extensively including at the TarraWarra Biennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Artspace and Performance Space. She has been an artist in residence and exhibited in Chile, Saudi Arabia, and Japan.She is currently a Lecturer in Sculpture at the National Art School, Sydney, and an Advisor to Blindside gallery, Melbourne.