loose ,, sparkling

Kelsey D. and Justine Walsh
22/11/2024 21/12/2024
cool change contemporary x PS Art Space, Walyalup/Fremantle (WA)
Curated library with sculptural and screen-based works

J & K: { … a long time talking about stones }
K: also been thinking about vessels, yeah?
J: yes always
K: ugh <3
J: but the first thing i thought of is blood vessels
K: yes those too
K: i dropped a big stone on my foot last week and
broke some of my blood vessels, my whole foot is a bruise
J: yesss that's a kind of intimacy too

Drawing from urban ecology, deep listening, vital materiality, and automatic writing while mining the duo’s longstanding friendship, queer sensitivities, streaming thoughts, and esoteric conversations, Kelsey and Justine will present an exploratory sculptural and audiovisual landscape in response to the PS Art Space building alongside a curated selection of texts including the likes of Saskia Beudel, Derek Jarman, Clarice Lispector, Joanna Macy, and Pauline Oliveros.

J: It’s like, what is a brick? It is made up of all these minerals and beings, and then thousands of those that you live inside of! All these ancient beings that we live inside, do we know what we are doing?!

Playful and interdisciplinary, the collaborative project seeks to find portals of empathy and intimacy in urban environments as the outcomes of ongoing research into the ecology and materiality of deep time (comparative to ‘human time,’ the billions of years that form geological or cosmic time).

Public programming
- Reading session and discussion with texts from the curated library
- Improvised performance with exploratory music trio Pale Ribbons Tossed into the Dark, responding to loose ,, sparkling and the notes left by visitors which were collected in a jar of oil within the exhibition.
- Workshop run by Justine Walsh, exploring the architecture, materials, relationships, and histories related to the PS site through voice/singing and listening practices.

Shelf build
Jack Wansbrough

Documentation
Tom Cramond

Materials
Pewter, silver, debris, concrete, brick, limestone, aggregate, wood, felt, muslin, old iphone playing screen recording, led screen playing screen recording, calico, paper, pencils, canola oil in jar, wooden table, chairs, hand written and bound books made by the artists.

Texts included:
World As Lover, World As Self Joanna Macy
Nature Poem Tommy Pico
Vibrant Matter Jane Bennett
The Poetics of Space Gaston Bachelard
Quantum Listening Pauline Oliveros
The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses Juhani Pallasmaa
Are.na Annual 2024 including: “The Earthbody in Pain” by Noa Mori Machover, “Tributaries” by Desmond Wong, “For Remembering the Air” by Yana M’Baye and “Ephemera: A Rock Collection” by Michelle Santiago Cortes
Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman Jeffrey J Cohen
“Shimmer” essay by Deborah Bird-Rose
“Fossils in the City” essay by Saskia Beudel
ecosexts Nadege Philippe-Janon
Modern Nature Derek Jarman
Thinking Like a Mountain John Seed, Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming, Arne Naess
In Praise of Shadows Junichiro Tanizaki
Água Viva Clarice Lispector