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7/8/2015

Two Exhibition

Institute of Modern Art - IMA, Brisbane

Patrick Staff: The Foundation
Curated by Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh

The Institute of Modern Art (IMA) is pleased to present a major film installation by Patrick Staff, The Foundation, co-commissioned with Chisenhale Gallery, London; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; and Spike Island, Bristol. In this new work, Staff explores queer intergenerational relationships negotiated through historical materials. The film combines footage shot at the Tom of Finland Foundation in Los Angeles – home to the archive of the erotic artist and gay icon and a community of people that care for it – with choreographic sequences shot within a specially constructed set.

The legacy of Finnish artist Touko Laaksonen (1920-1991), better known as Tom of Finland, spans multiple generations. Tom of Finland’s work made a considerable impact on masculine representation and imagery in post-war gay culture. Rather than focusing on Tom of Finland’s work, Staff’s film evokes the foundation as a set of relations. Staff explores how a collection is formed and constituted; the communities that produce and are produced by a body of work; and ideas of intergenerational relationships and care. Through observational footage of the house, its collections and inhabitants, the foundation is revealed as a domestic environment, a libidinal space, archive, office and community centre; a private space which is also the home of a public-facing organisation and the source of a widely dispersed body of images.

The Foundation Publication

A publication departing from the project is being released in conjunction with the exhibition and features texts by Isla Leaver-Yap and Catherine Lord as well as an interview with Staff and the Tom of Finland Foundation’s S.R. Sharp. The volume is a collaboration between Institute of Modern Art (IMA), Contemporary Art Gallery (CAG), Chisenhale Gallery, and Spike Island. It is published by IMA, Mousse Publishing, and CAG. Pre-order the publication now.
Biography

Patrick Staff is based in London, UK, and Los Angeles, USA. Selected exhibitions, screenings, and performances include Scaffold see Scaffold, The Showroom, London; Art Turning Left, Tate Liverpool; L’Heure Des Sorcieres, Le Quartier, France (all 2014); Mental effort Before Action: 1-5A-5B, South London Gallery; A Factory As It Might Be (Bournville), International Project Space, Birmingham; Society is a Workshop, Banff Centre, Canada (all 2013); Chewing Gum for the Social Body, The Tanks, Tate Modern, London (2012). Staff took part in the LUX Associate Artists Programme in 2010/11 and was the inaugural White Building/Lux Collection Residency artist (2014).

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Dale Harding: White Collared

The IMA is pleased to present the inaugural Green Room exhibition by Brisbane-based artist Dale Harding, White Collared. Harding is a descendent of the Bidjara, Ghungalu and Garingbal peoples of Central Queensland, who has gained recognition for works that explore the untold histories of his communities. Recently he has been investigating the social and political realities experienced by members of his family who lived under government control in Queensland.

The lives of the young Aboriginal women and the little girls who were forced to live in the dormitories on Woorabinda Aboriginal Mission in Central Queensland were governed by restriction, confinement and control. The White Collared series presents imagined artefacts of mission times in Queensland's recent history when the Department of Native Affairs, Police and Church Missionaries imposed total control over the lives of Aboriginal people.

The Green Room is a new dedicated space at the IMA for projects with a connection to our region.
Biography

Harding’s first solo exhibition, Colour by Number, was curated by Tony Albert at Brisbane’s Metro Arts (2012). He has participated in a number of group exhibitions, including string theory: Focus on Contemporary Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney; My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art From Black Australia, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (both 2013); Outlaws, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, St Kilda (2014). Harding's work can currently also be seen in GOMA Q: Contemporary Queensland Art at the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art.

Image: Dale Harding, White Collared (detail), (mixed media, 2015). Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane.

Press Contact:
Sarah D'Ardenne at sarah@ima.org.au, or call T +61 (0) 7 3252 5750

Opening: Saturday, 8 August, 6pm

Institute of Modern Art
420 Brunswick Street
Fortitude Valley
Brisbane, Queensland, 4006
Tuesday–Wednesday12pm–6pm
Thursday12pm–8pm
Friday–Saturday12pm–6pm

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