Emily Galicek: Artist in Residence
18 – 21 January 2017
Artist Talk Saturday 3 – 4pm
Galicek’s work investigates the means by which performance artists create an aura of self-mythology around themselves. Performance practitioners utilise the documentation of their performances and personas as a way to embody the notion of artist as genius, or to achieve symbolic status in culture. Performance artists are always implicated in the dissemination and exhibition of their performance documentation, and it is this implication that allows them to present to audiences as mythological beings.
This work humorously utilises the techniques of performance artists to expose their fallacy. Artist in Residence… is a work that extends the “practice” and “career” of Emily Galicek beyond any truth established previously into a realm of artifice and falsehood.
Initially created for her Honours year in UTS Photography and Situated Media, this project constitutes a new, performance-based extension of the existing project and figure of Emily Galicek. It will see the mysterious Emily Galicek occupy the project space as a studio residency for the week. During the week, she will attempt to decorate it and make it her own, and create work that builds on ideas of ‘endurance’ and ‘spirituality.’ She will also be available to offer pearls of her performance wisdom to visitors, something she does not often do. Within the space she will also display a variety of publishing materials about her practice.
Emily Galicek obviously exists as a practitioner, but this project attempts to blur the line between inherent truth and myth. By mere existence, the contention of her authenticity and trustworthiness is mostly dispelled. The work will at once be both serious and humorous: the humour becoming a means by which to be critical of the methods of the performance artist. Galicek takes on the multi-faceted roles of performer, documenter, publisher and curator to become self-reflexive and critical of these rituals in themselves.
This work humorously utilises the techniques of performance artists to expose their fallacy. Artist in Residence… is a work that extends the “practice” and “career” of Emily Galicek beyond any truth established previously into a realm of artifice and falsehood.
Initially created for her Honours year in UTS Photography and Situated Media, this project constitutes a new, performance-based extension of the existing project and figure of Emily Galicek. It will see the mysterious Emily Galicek occupy the project space as a studio residency for the week. During the week, she will attempt to decorate it and make it her own, and create work that builds on ideas of ‘endurance’ and ‘spirituality.’ She will also be available to offer pearls of her performance wisdom to visitors, something she does not often do. Within the space she will also display a variety of publishing materials about her practice.
Emily Galicek obviously exists as a practitioner, but this project attempts to blur the line between inherent truth and myth. By mere existence, the contention of her authenticity and trustworthiness is mostly dispelled. The work will at once be both serious and humorous: the humour becoming a means by which to be critical of the methods of the performance artist. Galicek takes on the multi-faceted roles of performer, documenter, publisher and curator to become self-reflexive and critical of these rituals in themselves.