Dark [Other] Times

Is our present moment one of rupture, rapture, or revulsion?

Curated by Maria Kunda and Paul Zika, Dark [Other] Times is a group exhibition of works by a diverse range of Australian artists, which is organised around the polarised moods that characterise living in our “interesting times”: on one hand expansive and ecstatic, psychedelic and transcendental; on the other hand, seemingly stalled—time endured, languidly, with a sense of torpor, ennui or petrification.

Some of the works selected refer to the past, some to the future or some parallel time, or to worlds that are excessive, intensified or heightened—to the point of being tenuous or fragile, or monochrome and vacant.

Artists:

WAYNE BROOKES                    

GLEN CLARKE          

ELLA CONDON                         

LISA GARLAND         

LINSEY GOSPER                      

BRENT HARRIS

LOUISE HEARMAN                 

SAM LEACH

JENNIFER MARSHALL            

MILAN MILOJEVIC

ROBERT O’CONNOR               

LOUISE PARAMOR

PATRICK POUND                     

NICOLA SMITH

MICHAEL VALE

Opening event: Friday 8 June, 6:00–8:00pm

Gallery Hours:

Saturday 9 + Sunday 10 June, 12–5pm
Wednesday 13 + Thursday 14, 12–5pm
Friday 15 – Sunday 17, 5–10pm
Monday 18 + Wednesday 20, 12–5pm
Thursday 21 – Sunday 24, 5–10pm

Closed Tuesdays and Public holidays

Presented by Dark Mofo and the School of Creative Arts, University of Tasmania.