33of gallery three, as a glitchy sort of mise-en-scène each presenting a video that captures ten
minutes of a day-long improvisation session featuring Fuata, Gothe-Snape, and one of their
five collaborators (or columns) as they play out a range of performative exercises together. The
exhibition is grounded in theory such as Kathy Acker’s text ‘Against Ordinary Language, the
Language of the Body’, which is exhibited alongside notes and residue from the work in a glass
vitrine in gallery three. In the last room viewers are given a space to rest, beanbags surface the
floor of a final Powerpoint-based text work called Listening Exercise (2019), a fitting counterpoint
to ‘Certain Situations’.
‘Certain Situations’ is curated by the Institute of Modern Art’s Madeleine King, beyond her
extensive experience as Program Manager, then Assistant Director of the Institute – a background
in fashion theory here further grounds King’s curatorial approach in relationship to broader
interdisciplinary trajectories present in major themes in this exhibition.
Tess Maunder is a writer and curator, currently working between Australia, Asia and the United
States.
Institute of Modern Art
Until 31 August, 2019
Queensland
Agatha Gothe-Snape, Listening_Exercise.ppsx, 2019, installation view, ‘Certain Situations’, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Microsoft
Powerpoint, looped
Photograph: Louis Lim
Courtesy the artist and Institute of Modern Art, Queensland