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MCA Unveils 2018 Exhibition Program Download MCA PROGRAMMCA ���8 John Mawurndjul, Nawarra- mulmul (Shooting star spirit), 1988, ochres and synthetic polymer on bark, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, purchased with funds donat- ed by Mr and Mrs Jim Bain, 1989, © John Mawurndjul, licensed by Viscopy 2017 MCA PROGRAM ���8 MEDIA CONTACT: Myriam Conrie 02 9245 2434 / 0429 572 869 [email protected] Click here for media images The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) unveils its 2018 program. 2018 Exhibitions MCA Director Elizabeth Ann Macgregor OBE said: ‘2018 is shaping up to be one of TODAY TOMORROW the MCA’s most exciting and diverse years in terms of programming, with works by YESTERDAY:MCA COLLECTION: exceptional Australian and international contemporary artists at all stages of their Ongoing careers, and in varied media.’ PIPILOTTI RIST: SIP MY OCEAN ‘We look forward to engaging a wide range of audiences with art that transcends 1 Nov 2017 – 18 Feb 2018 everyday reality, fires up our imagination and draws us in, but that also gives us the opportunity to be challenged, look at things differently and address difficult issues,’ WORD: MCA COLLECTION Macgregor continued. 4 Dec 2017 – 18 Feb 2018 JON CAMPBELL: MCA COLLECTION A highlight of the program is the first major survey of works by John Mawurndjul, 4 Dec 2017 – 25 Feb 2018 one of Australia’s most important artists. Developed and co-presented by the MCA and 21ST BIENNALE OF SYDNEY the Art Gallery of South Australia, in association with Maningrida Arts & Culture, the 16 Mar – 11 Jun 2018 exhibition will span the thirty years the artist has been making work (from 6 July). JOHN MAWURNDJUL: The MCA will also present the first solo exhibition in Australia of Sun Xun, one of I AM THE OLD AND THE NEW China’s most exciting young artists, best known for his stop-motion animations that 6 Jul – 23 Sep 2018 are based on thousands of ink paintings, charcoal drawings and woodcuts. His work SUN XUN has extraordinary resonance internationally, interrogating as it does the absurd 9 Jul – 14 Oct 2018 incongruities between authorised histories and personal recollections, and ideas around propaganda, post-truth and what we now call ‘fake news’ (from 9 July). SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL ART SERIES 2018/19 Continuing into the new year is Pipilotti Rist: Sip my Ocean, a Sydney-exclusive major 19 Oct 2018 – 3 Mar 2019 survey of works by Swiss video artist Pipilotti Rist, presented as part of the Sydney PRIMAVERA 2018: International Art Series (until 18 February). Also continuing are Word: MCA Collection YOUNG AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS and Jon Campbell: MCA Collection, which both showcase works from the Museum’s 9 Nov 2018 – 3 Feb 2019 Collection that engage with language and text, encompassing painting, printmaking, COMPASS: MCA COLLECTION sculpture, installation and video (until 18 and 25 February respectively). 9 Nov 2018 – 3 Feb 2019 Other highlights include the 21st Biennale of Sydney, SUPERPOSITION: Art of Equilibrium & Engagement, presented across the Level 1 and Level 3 Galleries (from 16 March), Primavera 2018: Young Australian Artists, curated by Megan Robson (from 9 November), and Compass: MCA Collection, a Collection-based exhibition in which trajectories of Indigenous and non-Indigenous women practices are considered in dialogue with one another (from 9 November). The MCA’s touring program will continue to reach audiences nationally, with Primavera at 25: MCA Collection and Hilarie Mais travelling to five venues across four states. In 2018, the MCA’s socially engaged, Western Sydney-based C3West program will present a critically important project about the history of the Blacktown Native Institution – one of Australia’s most important historical sites – in partnership with Blacktown Arts. Drawn from the MCA Collection, Today Tomorrow Yesterday focuses on contemporary practices by Australian and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, with work by more than 40 artists from the 1960s to the present. A new Artist Room by Emily Floyd will be presented, as well as new acquisitions by Nicole Foreshew, Kathy Temin and Jonny Niesche. Conversation Starters, the new program of art and ideas introduced last year with great success, will return in August, exploring difficult ideas around storytelling, post-truth and propaganda in relation to the work of contemporary Chinese artist Sun Xun. Click here for Dropbox with media images MCA PROGRAM ���8 MEDIA CONTACT: Myriam Conrie 02 9245 2434 / 0429 572 869 [email protected] Click here for media images Today Tomorrow Yesterday: Pipilotti Rist: Sip my Ocean MCA Collection Sydney International Art Series 1 November 2017 – 18 February 2018 Ongoing Level 3 Galleries, Ticketed Level 2 Collection Galleries, FREE ENTRY Pipilotti Rist: Sip my Ocean is the first major survey exhibition in Australia Drawn from the Museum’s collection, Today Tomorrow Yesterday of the Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist (b. 1962, Grabs, Switzerland). It is considers the impact of the past and the influence of history on art today. presented exclusively to Sydney as part of the Sydney International Art From contemporary interpretations of ancestral stories to the continuing Series, supported by the NSW Government through Destination NSW. effects of early to mid-twentieth century avant-garde art and theatre, each room presents a different perspective on the history of the present. For the past thirty years, Rist’s work has been regarded as pioneering in the fields of experimental video art and multimedia installations. Curated by MCA Senior Curator Natasha Bullock, this presentation Incorporating video and sculpture, her recent environments envelop includes work by more than forty Australian artists from the 1960s to viewers in vivid projections which explore the relationship between the present, including recent acquisitions by Nicole Foreshew (ngayirr nature, the body and technology. (sacred), 2015-17), Kathy Temin (The Memorial Project: Black Wall, 2015) and Jonny Niesche (Mutual Vibration (address the body whole), 2017). Curated by MCA Senior Curator Natasha Bullock, this exhibition presents the spectrum of Rist’s work from her early single-channel videos of Initiated in 2017, the next Artist Room exhibition, which highlights the the 1980s, that celebrate female pleasure and hysteria, to her recent museum’s holdings of a single artist’s work, will present an exhibition of imaginary environments with comforting soundscapes. works by Emily Floyd, curated by MCA Assistant Curator Manya Sellers. Rist is one of the first generation of artists to grow up with televisions in Previous Artist Rooms featured works by Linda Marrinon and Lena their living rooms. She references this history, with early videos presented Yarinkura. on monitors and later works projected cinema-scale across ceilings, floors and walls. From the beginning she has been an innovator, readily Our regular changeovers on the collection floor enable us to showcase engaging with advances in technology and new ways of making art. Her new acquisitions, bring out old favorites and above all, create new work reflects the symbiotic relationship between technology and biology, conversations, working closely with artists to discuss the relationships presenting both as a fundamental part of human experience. between their artworks and others, and more generally, experiment with ideas. The work after which this exhibition is named, Sip My Ocean (1996), fuses the physical and psychological to create what the artist calls a On display in 2018 are works acquired by the MCA Foundation and from ‘mental screen’. Combining the intimate with the universal, the title the MCA/Tate international co-acquisition program supported by Qantas. broadly acknowledges, as much of Rist’s art does, that humans are also animals within this cosmos. Curator: Natasha Bullock Curator: Natasha Bullock Emily Floyd, The Garden (here small gestures make complex structures), 2012, Museum of Pipilotti Rist, Administrating Eternity, 2011, installation view, Pipilotti Rist: Eyeball Massage, Contemporary Art Australia, donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Hayward Gallery London, 2011, courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Luhring Augustine © Program by the artist, 2013, image courtesy and © the artist the artist, photo: Linda Nylind MCA PROGRAM ���8 MEDIA CONTACT: Myriam Conrie 02 9245 2434 / 0429 572 869 [email protected] Click here for media images Word: MCA Collection Jon Campbell: MCA Collection 4 December 2017 – 18 February 2018 4 December 2017 – 25 February 2018 Level 1 South Galleries, FREE ENTRY Level 1 North Galleries, FREE ENTRY Word: MCA Collection showcases works from the Museum’s Collection Jon Campbell: Jon Campbell also showcases works from the Museum’s that engage with language and text, encompassing painting, printmaking, Collection. sculpture, installation and video. Words and word play are central to Jon Campbell’s towering installation Co-curated by MCA’s Senior Curator Natasha Bullock, Curator Anna Davis Stacks On (2010). Comprising stacked, illuminated Perspex boxes and and Chief Curator Rachel Kent, the presentation reaffirms the Museum’s suspended fabric banners, Campbell’s colourful work employs Australian commitment to exhibiting the work of Australian artists and offers a fresh vernacular – common sayings and aphorisms – in its realisation. perspective on the Collection through collaboration. Informal ‘pub talk’, slogans and slang appear on the light boxes and A large suite of political posters introduces the South galleries, featuring banners, recalling Australian suburbia, adolescence, sports culture and prints from artists and poster collectives around Australia that address the independent music scene. Some phrases refer to the artist’s own land ownership and Indigenous rights, gender and equality, and uranium youth and experiences, including a surfing road trip with mates; others mining and anti-nuclear protest. Largely created during the 1970s are more general, suggesting roadside signs, pub menus and bits of and 80s, they set the scene for debates that continue today; and they conversation, overheard. represent one of the most direct ways in which ordinary peoples’ voices can be heard across the political spectrum.
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