Overview, Images
Darcy Smith, Up, Down and Hold for 30, installation view at Blindside. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Roberta Govoni.

Up, Down and Hold for 30

Darcy Smith

9–26 Oct 2019

It creates the container

Between vulnerability and manipulation

I hold you here for the moment, I hold you to learn ya. Let me learn ya. How long will it take for us to become solidified without the scum or history of the past in view?

What do you need from everyone else if you need to be heard and understood?

Patience I guess

who’s rushing you?

..me

Yep…

Onsite, Exhibition
Overview

We move our body through, in, out, around, over and under spaces. We forget what was in the past and the impressions that we placed of ourselves onto our surroundings. These traces (in reference to a mark, object or other indication of the existence or passing of something) that are left are physical and psychological, visible and invisible. What are the implications of contact? A trace of energy? But then, contact – what are the boundaries of contact? Your hand touching my hand? Me looking at you, looking at me, looking at you. My vision touches the subject in my sight. My grasp on honey – something unattainable and uncontrollable? An embrace. What is it to manipulate and bear power on materials which contradictorily actually have the power over you?



Opening: 10 Oct 2019, 7am–9am

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.

Darcy Smith, Up, Down and Hold for 30, installation view at Blindside. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Roberta Govoni.