PAUSE + POISE + HAPPENSTANCE

sculpture, photography, performance, vinyl, Tributary Projects, Fyshwick ACT, 15th April- 2nd May 2021

Interrupted action- temporary stop in action or speech. The state of being balanced, controlled + ready for action. Coincidence.

Pause+ Poise + Happenstance shows a cyclic routine that bodies navigate, placing bodies in formation to create information, action and poise for other bodies to digest and react to. Humans move, dance and sound in subtle patterns, often in squares and triangles. When bodies are absent in the exhibition space, the objects relate to the spaces a body fits into, but stand solitary. The removal of the body abstracts the space further with forms interrupting and harnessing a space taking on their own landscape or body inside the walls of the gallery. Placing bodies in and out of these positions allows us to see a form and a removal of a form in both the materiality of the objects and the materiality of the body.

Kate Brown investigates patterns in movement through line, geometric sculpture, photography and sound. She is interested in creating images by using techniques from the Japanese zen practice of body weather and Levy Brul’s notion of Participation Mystique, investigating how bodies and objects relate to each other at a subconscious perceptual level.

During the opening weekend, Kate performed using a throat mic and talk box plugged into a delay pedal, wireless microphone and dynamic microphone to create feedback and ambient sounds from the inside out. In this performance she works with the architecture of the gallery as well as technology and the body as instrument.