Performance: Mel O'Callaghan - Respire, Respire

Feb 11, 2023

About

When: Sunday 12 February, TBC
Cost: Free event - limited spaces
Who: All welcome
Where: Wagga Wagga Art Gallery

Join us for Mel O’Callaghan’s Respire, Respire, a performance work developed by the artist as part of her exhibition Centre of the Centre. Respire, Respire is a work based on a choreography of breathing, sculpture and performance. Activating the glass sculptural works in the exhibition space, performers will undertake breathing rituals to gradually attain altered states of consciousness. This can range from meditative to ecstatic or even hallucinatory. The sculptures act as ritualised objects and performance tools, amplifying the sensation of breathing in the space. When performer and sculpture come together, O’Callaghan accentuates the necessary human and non-human balance responsible for maintaining and regenerating life on Earth.

Mel O’Callaghan’s Centre of the Centre was curated and developed by Artspace and is touring nationally with Museums & Galleries of NSW. Centre of the Centre is co-commissioned by Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers; Artspace, Sydney; and The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane. With Commissioning Partners Andrew Cameron AM & Cathy Cameron and Peter Wilson & James Emmett; and Lead Supporter, Kronenberg Mais Wright. The development and presentation of Centre of the Centre is supported by the Fondation des Artistes; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the US National Science Foundation. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body