Untitled (cum dolore)
Ashe
19–22 Mar 2025
Untitled (cum dolore) is a durational performance that navigates the fragility of the body within rigid social structures, exploring love, gender, and the politics of intimacy. The work conjures power and desire through the evolving relationship between body and structure, balancing endurance and unpredictability against stability. Through the poetics of gesture and form, the performance heightens the tension between control and collapse. Anchored in the vulnerability of visibility, Untitled (cum dolore) reveals the precarious balance between resilience and surrender.
Schedule for Performances:
Thursday 20th March from 6:30pm
(ARRIVE BY 6:00PM)
Saturday 22nd from 2:30pm
There will be no live elements within the installation outside of the performance times during gallery opening hours. Installation with performance residue only.
* Special thanks to; Erin Davis (The Old Stone Hall), Kate Davis (THE RABBLE) and Mick Beaumont (First Scaff Scaffolding), and Shane Anderson (my beautiful man.)
Untitled (cum dolore) is a durational performance that navigates the fragility of the body within rigid social structures, exploring love, gender, and the politics of intimacy.
Please Note: this performance/installation may contain nudity.
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.
Ashe develops art to articulate the intricate components of identity and belonging. Each of Ashe’s varied methodologies — predominantly photography, painting, and performance — are interconnected approach vectors to interrogate the politics of space and identity construction. Ashe’s oeuvre is pinned by recurrent motif that builds this positionality — the body as a political site, the national flag as a semiotic cocoon, and the playful interweaving of western art canon beats. These recurrent themes — in combination with their interdisciplinary approaches — results in a raw exploration of the vulnerabilities and confrontations to understanding one’s place in the world.
Please Note: this performance/installation may contain nudity.