an invitation to dance, a group exhibition with Kristen Brownfield, jemi gale, Audrey Tan, Jess Tan, and Clare Wohlnick, at PS Art Space/Cool Change
Initiated by Jess Tan, the exhibition privileges process-led art practices that consider alternatives to excessive material consumption while minimising emphasis on extractive value and outcome. Through pottering—embodied but unfocused thinking and working that playfully engages with and reassembles matter—divergences occur in a generative space. Lingering thoughts evolve and are translated into material outputs, formed by spending time in the studio, processing, reorganising, fiddling, and simply combining things to see what happens.
Such a working methodology challenges late capitalism’s reliance on efficiency and productivity to establish an alternative form of labour production through varied artistic approaches to slowness, collection, accumulation, re-use, and re-configuration. an invitation to dance moves through human, non-human, and emotional registers to make meaning and invites us to contemplate alternate ways of moving through the world, with new intentionality around time, what we value, and how we consume resources.
untitled, 2024, artist book (digital prints on Japanese Kozo paper, recycled string), displayed on shelf made with wood salvaged by Jess Tan, dried flower. Photos courtesy of Tom Cramond and Cool Change.
untitled (detail), 2024, artist book (digital prints on Japanese Kozo paper, recycled string). Photos courtesy of the artist.
untitled, 2024, collaborative work by Jess Tan, Clare Wohlnick and Kristen Brownfield, felted wool, organic material, thread. Photos courtesy of Tom Cramond and Cool Change.
untitled, 2024, pins, handmade studs by Audrey Tan, found images and objects, paper, cardboard, plastic and foil packaging, weeds, dried flowers, insects, ribbon, string, twist ties, shells, rocks, sea glass, pearl, rope, safety pins, dried strawberry top, mangosteen, tomato vine and onion skin, leaves, seaweed and napkin. Photos courtesy of Tom Cramond and Cool Change.
