Something Happened

Overview

Performance art has earned itself a solid reputation as being kind of crazy. Artists can go to extreme lengths to push their audiences or examine an issue. But, while this show is comprised of challenging performance works from four talented Australian artists, the results are much more silly than they are crazy.

Something Happened is a collection of recorded performance pieces from Ross Coulter, Hannah Jackson, Tanya Lee and Stuart Ringholt. Baring all in bizarre public and private situations these artists examine our understanding of embarrassment. Why do we blush? Why do we think modesty is a good thing? Why can't we all just be naked all the time?

Or maybe that last question will be posed by just one of the artists. Earlier this year Stuart Ringholt hosted a nude daytime disco at MOMA. Similarly Ross Coulter's work has been known for a sense of silliness — in 2011 he set flight to 10,000 paper planes inside the State Library of Victoria. We don't yet know how Jackson and Lee feel about nudity and origami but we're excited to find out.