Curator Talk

Hammad Nasar on The Discomfort of Repair: Exhibition making as ‘pushing hands' with art’s histories

Sat 31 Aug 2024
Artspace

Above: Vipul Sangoi
When
Sat 31 Aug 2024, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Location
Artspace
43–51 Cowper Wharf Roadway
Woolloomooloo NSW 2011
Sydney Australia
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Join us to welcome curator Hammad Nasar for a talk on The Discomfort of Repair: Exhibition making as ‘pushing hands' with art’s histories. The Tai Chi based exercise of ‘pushing hands’ is a model of practice that requires its practitioners to meet incoming force with softness; to move with the force and redirect it, or allow it to exhaust itself. In his presentation, Nasar will use ‘pushing hands' as a lens through which to consider recent curatorial projects that deal with difficult histories, and argue for the exhibition itself as a kind of social infrastructure. 

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This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.