BRIONY GALLIGAN & MEL DEERSON

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Briony Galligan and Mel Deerson’s collaborative practice consists of discursive performance, painting, sound, video and object-based explorations of the intersections of desire and control at various ‘sites’ - from an underwear and wire fencing factory in Melbourne’s CBD, to Dante’s hell, to rainbows. Creating theatrical performances, props, backdrops, drawings and prints, with archival images and texts, their work is playful, intimate and poetic. In 2021, they participated in public art development program Test Sites (City of Melbourne) and undertook a residency at Bundanon Trust supported by Australia Council for the Arts.

As part of LAB, Briony and Mel will ask: how can we foster and make visible immaterial things like queer community, learning and art practice? Together they want to make work about things that are hard to pin down: rainbows, queerness, angels, reflections. Imagined as video and sculptural installations, they are seeking to ask, what is it when an immaterial or imagined body becomes a living and desirous thing?

BRIONY'S INSTAGRAM

MEL'S INSTAGRAM