Intimate Organisms
Bianca Tainsh
7 October – 28 October 2023
Bianca Tainsh, Organic Intimacy (2023), image courtesy of the artist © Bianca Tainsh
An organic materialisation, with its genesis in human and more-than-human collectivism. In an uncanny partnership suspended by the voices of many, fungi and humans will share in the procreation of a new symbiotic body. Tender beginnings will eternally link these intimate organisms to the human sphere of Outer Space.
In contrast to the self-centric over-exploits of contemporary humankind, there is an obscure underground industry of intelligence between intimate organisms. Electric impulses and chemical amalgams transmit esoteric communications. Long before a human internet, nature had initiated its own network. A multi-species affiliation, manifesting from primordial relationships with fungi.
In its role as an ecological steward, can fungi become our mediator for a return to the gestalt of nature?
Through a collaboration at the nexus of art and science, an artist and a mycologist practiced conscientious connection in a quest to explore this abstract ideal and cultivate sentient biomes. In a culmination of this experimental research, the Outer Space gallery becomes a platform to worship diversity and symbiosis. Through the procreation of Myc-a, a new body of symbiotic organisms, interspecies synergy and a path to ecological citizenship is revealed.
Bianca Tainsh is an open-disciplinary artist, based on Lake Weyba, Gubbi Gubbi country. Through a hybrid practice of contemporary art, ecofeminism and fluid forms of ecological and documentary activities she explores issues such as the cyber-saturated human’s disconnect from the natural world, mass consumerism, and the search for autonomy and spirituality in the epoch of digital culture. In her current work, Neo-animism forms the trope for artefacts and rituals that unveil new forms of coexistence and being. Archives of self-generated, foraged, and cyber-sourced material, saturated with semiotic rhetoric become the provenance for video, digital and traditional media, assemblages and live art.
Bianca is a prize-winning artist, exhibiting in Australia and Germany. As an advocate of Art for Change, she has presented a TEDx talk and webinars. Bianca has a 1st Class Honours from RMIT University, and postgraduate studies in Arts & Community Engagement at the Victorian College of the Arts.
This project was supported by The Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF) which is a partnership between the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland and Sunshine Coast Council through ArtsCoast to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland.
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OPENING
6-8pm, Friday 6 October 2023
JWAC Gallery, 420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley
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THE PERSONHOOD OF BIOMES
11am, Saturday 21 October 2023
JWAC Gallery, 420 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley
Artist Bianca Tainsh and researcher Dr Karin Sellberg will bring their shared interests of eco-feminism, embodiment, and fungi into a conversational space for cultural excavation.
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JWAC Gallery
Cnr Brunswick and Berwick Streets
420 Brunswick Street
Fortitude Valley Q 4006
(map here)
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Documentation by Louis Lim
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This project has been assisted by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland. |