The Blind Task of Sleep

Martina Copley

20 Jun–28 Jul 2018

A vagabond investigation informed by questions of artistic production, the work looks at the ways things resist translation.
An apprehension of contingent orders, the work doesn’t have a set form.
Sound, idea, object and modality are collated to set up a structural space for something to exist, a space in which the work moves towards an opening and at the same time asks questions about itself.

Online, Exhibition, Play

Overview

Blindside PLAY is an online video space dedicated to showing experimental local and international video art from emerging, mid-career and established artists.

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

Martina Copley is an artist and writer whose practice explores the poetics of compositional processes. She has worked with Sutton Projects, Propane, Bus Projects, RMIT Project Space, SEVENTH, West Space, City and Docklands Libraries, Melbourne Festival, and Liquid Architecture. She has co-produced two artist books and her writing (often with live readings) has been published by the Expanded Writers Collective, Runway Journal, no more poetry, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), and Bloomsbury Academic. Martina is Chair Artistic Director at Blindside and lectures in contemporary art and writing at RMIT University, the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne and La Trobe College of Art & Design.

martinacopley.com