https://archiebarry.com ARCHIE BARRY Tue, 24 Aug 2021 03:16:38 +0000 https://archiebarry.com en https://archiebarry.com/Main-page Mon, 23 Aug 2021 08:30:59 +0000 ARCHIE BARRY https://archiebarry.com/Main-page ARCHIE BARRY Born in 1990 and raised on the coastal regions of the Eora Nation/Sydney, Archie Barry is an interdisciplinary visual artist. Read more... SELECTED WORK <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ce13c9f9409c2e9c77ed4504b2fe9428bd1f7c4ec6b496e6f7eefd2e9f13a0a9/front.png" data-mid="143058412" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ce13c9f9409c2e9c77ed4504b2fe9428bd1f7c4ec6b496e6f7eefd2e9f13a0a9/front.png" /> Scaffolding (Preface) 2021 Video commission for group exhibition ‘Language is A River’ at Monash University Museum of Art Read more... <img width="758" height="520" width_o="758" height_o="520" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6d6b2b4020128ef1270c45770963405491392f8dd5bd9d9df3a642ce4f95abbc/bluedog_colour.png" data-mid="127022148" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/758/i/6d6b2b4020128ef1270c45770963405491392f8dd5bd9d9df3a642ce4f95abbc/bluedog_colour.png" /> Blue Dog 2021 Performance series for the National Gallery of Victoria Triennial 2021 Read more... <img width="758" height="520" width_o="758" height_o="520" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5633ea4aa90c11397414d5feb5ade6f9fe31d0d66f8dae5af15a48a9f712f6ef/multiplycolour.png" data-mid="120300073" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/758/i/5633ea4aa90c11397414d5feb5ade6f9fe31d0d66f8dae5af15a48a9f712f6ef/multiplycolour.png" /> Multiply 2020 Audio project commissioned by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Read more... <img width="758" height="520" width_o="758" height_o="520" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b3e9668be0a27005755f239d8cd93cc99a2d656d81267a39319d9a12c4602e40/fistimuffcolour.png" data-mid="120300005" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/758/i/b3e9668be0a27005755f239d8cd93cc99a2d656d81267a39319d9a12c4602e40/fistimuffcolour.png" /> Fistimuff 2019 Video artwork commissioned for Channels Festival 2019 Read more... <img width="762" height="806" width_o="762" height_o="806" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6e28ed70014702f88e6154304c8615a3c5c6b83e3711bcd2b2e97d07863556e3/tatsache_colour.png" data-mid="127022149" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/762/i/6e28ed70014702f88e6154304c8615a3c5c6b83e3711bcd2b2e97d07863556e3/tatsache_colour.png" /> Tatsache 2017 Video artwork Read more... <img width="758" height="520" width_o="758" height_o="520" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e049aa4cbf1adf121b358c830d900a32cae5fb8d9ee00b7778300c2092913a7/hypniccolour.png" data-mid="120300007" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/758/i/9e049aa4cbf1adf121b358c830d900a32cae5fb8d9ee00b7778300c2092913a7/hypniccolour.png" /> Hypnic 2017 Performance artwork Read More... https://archiebarry.com/Page-Nav-1 Mon, 23 Aug 2021 07:43:12 +0000 ARCHIE BARRY https://archiebarry.com/Page-Nav-1 ARCHIE BARRY https://archiebarry.com/Scaffolding-Preface Tue, 24 Aug 2021 02:59:00 +0000 ARCHIE BARRY https://archiebarry.com/Scaffolding-Preface Scaffolding (Preface), 2021, single channel 4K video, stereo sound, 11:19 min In an audiovisual flight from individualism and surveillance, this video artwork is narrated by a 3D animated coronal cross-section of the artist’s head. This “face within a face” is an arresting visual reminder of the shared visceral dimension of living in a human body, and establishes a locus for human exchange beyond the ubiquitous optics of facial recognition. Using the power of the non-lingual human voice to communicate affect, this artwork contains a combination of vocal sound and singing without language, alongside sung narration. The work describes a future in which an entire generation of people have stopped speaking and using written language, and instead communicate through singing. A generation of children’s singing voices could not be: Dishonest or inaccurateDecoded or tracked in its range and changing gendered intonations by omniscient non biological surveillance systems&nbsp; <img width="758" height="520" width_o="758" height_o="520" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/812148856cbe391c57cc7f7fc824d14f104015d613ddbbc363c3283fad67598d/untitlednewworkcolour.png" data-mid="151462662" border="0" data-scale="34" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/758/i/812148856cbe391c57cc7f7fc824d14f104015d613ddbbc363c3283fad67598d/untitlednewworkcolour.png" /> A propositional future characterised by emotional intelligence and untraceable communication is an imaginative line or flight departing from our current isolated and surveilled realities. Scaffolding (Preface) was developed following the exponential rise of trauma and existential strain under increasingly unlivable social and cultural conditions in the wake of the COVID pandemic, and proposes an embodied infrastructure for processing grief. Lead artist and composer: Archie Barry 3D animation: Savannah Fleming and Benjamin Jones Mixing and mastering: Daniel Jenatsch Catalogue essay ‘Ecstatic Voice at the Threshold’ by Pip Wallis Scaffolding (Preface) was commissioned by Monash University Museum of Art and supported by an Australian Council for the Arts Individual Artist Grant. https://archiebarry.com/Blue-Dog-1 Tue, 24 Aug 2021 03:02:15 +0000 ARCHIE BARRY https://archiebarry.com/Blue-Dog-1 Blue Dog (2021), performance excerpt. Videographer: Ella Sowinska Thu 21, Sun 24, Thu 28, Sat 30 Jan, Thu 4, Sat 6, Tue 9, Thu 11 Feb 2021The NGV TriennialNational Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne In this newly commissioned work, the artist ventriloquises a miniature sculpture of their own head named Blue Dog that looks like a baby, an elder and an alien. In this performance, as in the sociopolitical landscape post-2020, nothing makes sense. Performance is the end of sense and the start of sensing: Blue Dog communicates the separation anxiety of being an animal body inside an institution. https://archiebarry.com/Fistimuff Tue, 24 Aug 2021 03:09:53 +0000 ARCHIE BARRY https://archiebarry.com/Fistimuff Fistimuff (2019), single channel video, stereo sound, 11:07min Leading its audience into a different paradigm, Fistimuff disturbs the familiarity of thehuman body, suburban streets and domestic interiors with an inverted colour palette. These sites are transformed with a new agency, textures become almost palpable and the surface of the image blushes. The energetic interdependence between poetry, gesture and rhythm suggest a totalised system of bodily logic, whilst the divide between performance and rest is as fine and bruised as a hairline fracture. Uncut scenes of absentminded idling, direct audience address and private moments of play erode a stable reading of the performance. A meandering pace and lack of narrative is paired with commanding pitch-altered spoken word and a soundscape featuring unpredictable choppy beats and floating synth melodies. Radio static, an electrified hum and glitching repetition create a charged atmosphere. The voice of the artist repeats, urging, “Time goes by and nothing stays the same, feelings come and feelings pass away”. Lead Artist and Composer: Archie BarrySound Design and Production: Sean LowryVideographer: Emmett Aldred Exhibition History:Heide Museum of Modern Art, 'Fistimuff' (solo exhibition), Nov, 2020 - Feb, 2021.BLINDSIDE Gallery, 'Fistimuff' (solo exhibition), Sept 2019. Fistimuff is a Channels Festival commission co-curated by Kelli Alred and&nbsp;Laura Couttie. Supported by BLINDSIDE through the City of Melbourne and Creative Victoria. https://archiebarry.com/Tatsache Tue, 24 Aug 2021 03:13:09 +0000 ARCHIE BARRY https://archiebarry.com/Tatsache Tatsache (2017), single channel video loop, stereo sound, 4:24min Ttitled after a German phrase that roughly translates to English as “matter of fact”, Tatsache is a devotional poem that calls into question totalising systems of knowledge. Bordering on being a video artwork, a song, a dance and a music video, its medium is not singularly categorical. Lyrically, the artwork denies easy comprehension; the repeated phrase “this body is not real, this body is not fake” presents a paradox without resolution. This phrase contemplates the contradiction of trans embodiment as being internally felt and known, whilst being frequently legally and culturally framed as illegitimate. Exhibition history:National Gallery of Victoria, 'Archie Barry and Paul Maheke', Nov 2019 - April 2020.Artspace Sydney, 'The Public Body .03', Aug - Oct 2018.Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 'Unfinished Business', Nov 2017 - March 2018. https://archiebarry.com/Hypnic Tue, 24 Aug 2021 03:16:38 +0000 ARCHIE BARRY https://archiebarry.com/Hypnic <img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/44132f5e2fad04f99fcabd3c04a206b892835b933d302d3d4aa7064316d5433f/Archie-Barry-Hypnic2.jpg" data-mid="186469680" border="0" data-scale="73" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/44132f5e2fad04f99fcabd3c04a206b892835b933d302d3d4aa7064316d5433f/Archie-Barry-Hypnic2.jpg" /> Hypnic (2017), live performance approximately 4 minutes. Photo: Vanessa Godden A hypnic jerk is a sudden inexplicable twitch or sensation of falling when drifting off to sleep, often accompanied by a rapid heartbeat and sweating. The barriers between dreaming and waking, between what is desired and what is real are gently dissolved in this performance artwork. A small sculptural costume sings about its transitional state of existence, with the artist later joining them in a harmonious duet. The mouth and voice of the artist is doubled, creating a corporeal intensity that is both simple and indeterminate. <img width="3000" height="2143" width_o="3000" height_o="2143" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bc0dc99c6967bd31f6211fa2af1415363ec25f6f735bdc087b40fa2722494752/ACCA_Bodies-of-Evidence_HiRes33.jpg" data-mid="186468982" border="0" data-scale="73" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bc0dc99c6967bd31f6211fa2af1415363ec25f6f735bdc087b40fa2722494752/ACCA_Bodies-of-Evidence_HiRes33.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2143" width_o="3000" height_o="2143" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3a657c381c1c5a8dbe7a62ecdc1701a655417793439ecb8debf373be94762349/Archie-Barry-2017-Hypnic.jpg" data-mid="117182722" border="0" data-scale="73" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3a657c381c1c5a8dbe7a62ecdc1701a655417793439ecb8debf373be94762349/Archie-Barry-2017-Hypnic.jpg" /> Hypnic (2017), live performance approximately 4 minutes. Fourth rendition, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 22 March 2018. Photos: Jacqui Shelton. First rendition, Victorian College of the Arts, 22 March 2017. Second rendition, Trocadero Art Space, 30 August 2017. Third rendition, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 24 February 2018. Fourth rendition, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 22 March 2018. Fifth rendition, Artspace Sydney, 26 September 2018.