EXHIBITION
Merinda Davies
MIAMI/MIAMI (PLEASURE EMPORIUM)

WHEN: 6 Nov | 2021

COST: FREE

TIME: 5-8PM

6-21 November, 2021

Soft opening Saturday 6 November, 5-8pm
MERINDA will share a short live reading at 6pm and 7pm of her work in progress text titled ‘PLEASURE EMPORIUM.

In 2020 our international exchange MIAMI/MIAMI entered its fifth year with artist MERINDA DAVIES set to travel to Miami in Florida to undertake research and to develop new work for an exhibition at THE WALLS but the pandemic put those plans on hold. With the ongoing international travel ban and the impending closure of THE WALLS this iteration of MIAMI/MIAMI will take form as a creative development. MERINDA will travel to Miami (FL) when the world permits and the project will eventually be presented beyond THE WALLS, offsite and online.

Through conversations, recordings and observations Merinda Davies will explore landscapes of shame, pleasure and the parallel experiences in Miami, Gold Coast and in Miami, Florida. In November Merinda will be in residency at The Walls where she will open the space for a dialogue on pleasure, she will travel to Miami Florida to finalise the work once overseas travel is allowed again.

LAST SUNDAYS/LAST SUPPER: Sunday 21 November


MERINDA uses performance, movement, installation and conversation to ask how we might reorient ourselves towards deeper care and intimacy. Her work is inspired by the environment, human and more-than-human social and ecological structures and the possibilities available to us in future imaginings. Her practice aims to find clarity and connection in the external world through deep listening, observation, and research into the emotional and physical states in our internal worlds. She grew up in Bundjalung Country, Northern NSW, and is currently living and creating on the land of the Yugambeh language group, in South East QLD.

MERINDA’s solo and collaborative work has most recently been commissioned by; Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane & Blue Mountains Cultural Centre (Imprints, 2020/2021), Outerspace (Umwelt Collective: m0ther.online, 2020), Placemakers* GC (Fully Automated Human Touch, 2020) and City of Gold Coast (Conversations with the Forest, ongoing).

RE: Covid-19
We have a safety plan and social distancing guidelines continue to be followed. We will be collecting contact details upon arrival. We have limited capacity at the art space and you may be asked to wait a short while before entering. Please stay home if you are feeling unwell.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
THE WALLS acknowledges the YUGAMBEH people, the traditional owners of the land on which we operate, and pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples on the Gold Coast today.

PRINCIPAL SUPPORT
THE WALLS is supported by the City of Gold Coast through the Accelerate Triennial Grant Program.

 

 

THE WALLS ART SPACE
4/18 Mountain View Avenue Miami 4220
Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia


PERMANENTLY CLOSED FROM DECEMBER 5, 2021 

 

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