GALLERY | TOM BOURKE
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SAT 06 APR 4.00PM - FRI 17 MAY 5.00PM
OPENING EVENT SAT 06 APR, 4.00-6.00PM
FREE TO ATTEND
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Monday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Tuesday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Wednesday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Thursday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Saturday 10.00am - 3.00pm
Sunday closed
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For the CURRENTS exhibition, Gallery One is darkly-lit to accommodate screen and projection works. Gallery Two is lit by daylight, and accessible via stairs or elevator.
Platform Arts is wheelchair-accessible via our Gheringhap St entrance. Unlocked, accessible bathrooms are available on both ground and first floors.
For accessibility enquiries, please directly contact us at hello@platformarts.org.au
As part of the FAIRY program, Platform Arts is pleased to present select works by Djilang-based queer artist Tom Bourke.
“My best friend is not only that, she is also my sister, neighbour, workmate, acquaintance, enemy, and also nothing at all, but she is inevitable. In the great cosmos, we have been repeated and distorted, so much so that I may not exist, nor may she.
The possibility of our universe being infinite is a scare, but the idea of us being contained within the great box, leaving us to repeat into every combination of atoms possible, is more comforting. My soul and existence repeats so much so, that I died when I thought about swerving off the road that one time, and I also won the Nobel Peace Prize, but I also took every step forward that I have before, an infinite amount of times. I think about this ideology when I trace the acne on my boyfriends back that reflects the stars in the sky, I stare into my mothers eyes and see the closest nebula, and when his heart beats to the exact rhythm of last nights thunderstorm.
Last night when I was moving my body to the thumps of electronic sine waves, my eyes flickered in the strobes, leaving imprints of bodies and colour on my eyelids, and I swear I saw another side for just a second. My sweat dripping off my nose, and his rubbing on my forearm. We strangers collide for just a moment, and I think about how I’m going to do this forever, as my soul duplicates into a finite infinity.”
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Tom Bourke is an Australian queer artist based in Djilang, Australia (Geelong). Tom’s practise is an ever evolving movement in queer ideology, personal memoir and the study of who we are and where we sit in our universe. Performance occurs through a practice of sculpture, music, and installation- artworks which occasionally include the artist himself. A presence in texture present throughout the work may appear slick and smooth, offering a form of comfort and/or sterility, juxtaposed with a grit and stickiness that makes us uncomfortable whilst curious. These two modes are integral to the performative nature of Tom’s practice and work- it seeks to draw audiences into whole new worlds allowing us to escape somewhere, even for a moment.
