SIT !
Grace Partridge | Emma Size
11 - 14 January 2017, 10am – 6pm everyday
Artist Talk Saturday 14 January 2 – 3pm
Sit! Is an exercise in restraint and minimalism – in form, in content, and in the relationship between the two. Through crystallising the thesis of a catalogue essay into a single sentence, a simple sequence of words transforms from a link in a chain into an atomic statement of meaning. This condensing and collapsing of ideas into a single statement is supported by the collapse of distinction between art practice and art writing, as secondary and primary critical practice folds into one another.
Each day, Grace’s body will endure eight hours sitting in total stillness - roped off from the gallery dwellers. Her ekphrastic positioning will ask you to question historical and representational narratives of labour, rest, royalty, stillness, inactivity, leisure and their relationships to the feminine. Over four days, antinonfuture’s carefully designed and curated bean bag will sit in the space, asking you to question the social, cultural, political and historical rules, regulations and implications of sitting.
Together, Grace’s body and antinonfuture’s beanbag will be positioned in dialogue with one another – each complicated by the adornment of a single sentence on their person. Experimenting with the simple gesture of sitting and the simple gesture of a single sentence is an experiment for two nice girls making art together in feminist minimalism; and is also reflective of their hope to both create and allow room for deeper reflection and conversation around such feminine tropes.
Each day, Grace’s body will endure eight hours sitting in total stillness - roped off from the gallery dwellers. Her ekphrastic positioning will ask you to question historical and representational narratives of labour, rest, royalty, stillness, inactivity, leisure and their relationships to the feminine. Over four days, antinonfuture’s carefully designed and curated bean bag will sit in the space, asking you to question the social, cultural, political and historical rules, regulations and implications of sitting.
Together, Grace’s body and antinonfuture’s beanbag will be positioned in dialogue with one another – each complicated by the adornment of a single sentence on their person. Experimenting with the simple gesture of sitting and the simple gesture of a single sentence is an experiment for two nice girls making art together in feminist minimalism; and is also reflective of their hope to both create and allow room for deeper reflection and conversation around such feminine tropes.
Grace Partridge and antinonfuture (Emma Size) are two nice girls making art together. We invite you to consider the act of sitting, as Sit! occupies STACKS.
This unique endurance performance is an exercise in feminist minimalism that contemplates the feminised act of sitting. For 8 hours a day, Grace will sit in the gallery space, in dialogue with a beanbag designed by antinonfuture.
