Events

Exhibition: Game is Good

Game is Good brings together four Sydney-based (female) artists for a collaborative wrestling match.  Drawn together by their persistent explorations of boundaries, Lauren Brincat, Rachel Fuller, and COFA graduates Michaela Gleave and Kate Mitchell each tug, stretch and pull at reality in different ways to find out where it breaks. An exercise in concentration and strength, the project takes life by the horns and shakes hard to see what comes out. 

Skirting issues such as the performitivity of gender and traditional social conventions, Game is Good ducks and weaves its way through contemporary existence, challenging the impossible to see if it's possible and the possible to see if it's impossible.  Through endurance exercises, social experiments and performative gestures the artists work at the gaps between knowledge, recreating the world around them in order to better understand it, often through the very physical embodiment of their surroundings.  Exploring the continuity between consciousness and the external world, the project navigates the fine line between the convolutions of human experience and fantasy, courting and avoiding tragedy (emotional, mental and physical) and sometimes producing comedy.

Game is Good proposes an exercise in courage, in 'giving it a go', executed through life-affirming actions that break through the surface of reality in order to find a baser truth.  The outcome of the match is likely to be inconclusive; a series of experiments in which the final result is ultimately unimportant, triumph found instead in attempts against the odds, which - with persistent optimism - seek to wring that little bit more out of life.