Tickets

Free, No Booking Required

Dates

Thu 17 Mar
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Fri 18 Mar
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Sat 19 Mar
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Sun 20 Mar
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Mon 21 Mar
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Tue 22 Feb
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Wed 23 Mar
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Thu 24 Mar
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Fri 25 Mar
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Sat 26 Mar
10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Venue

Oigåll Projects
122 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy VIC, Australia

Folk Costumes, Indo-Pacific Air. Image: Hamish McIntosh

Folk Costumes, Indo-Pacific Air Past Event

Presented by Guillermo Fernández-Abascal, Urtzi Grau, copy nature office (Ed Cook) , Umi Graham, Ellie Skinner and Harrison Stockdale


In the months that preceded the global spread of COVID-19, a series of airborne events transformed the atmosphere of the Indo-Pacific region; the bushfire’s smoke on the East coast of Australia, the tear gas used in the Santiago de Chile and Hong Kong protests, the Indian Supreme Court ruling on Delhi’s pollution failures, and activists covering iconic statues with respirators across Johannesburg and Pretoria. They all mapped political struggles taking place in the region’s air, triggering a proliferation of masked faces avant la lettre.

The installation Folk Costumes, Indo-Pacific Air constructs the prehistory of the region’s current masked state. It presents five hybrid creatures breathing the air from the end of 2019. They are both tailored-masks for politicized atmospheres, and proto-architectures that imagine the bodies inhabiting them; in other words, a map of the Indo-Pacific. In the room, five well-dressed friends welcome visitors and illustrate how we could breathe together, how we will live together. Thay also remind us how, before our global pandemic, masks and respirators – the folk costumes of a region in the making – defined the Indo-Pacific imaginary.