48 Hour Incident

Overview

The call to public action and its shadow, the docile mass of those who will not take part, echo daily in many regions and for many causes across the world. Drawing from these phenomena, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art stages this weekend a continuous 48-hour exhibition of performance art and live actions from Australia, Asia and the Pacific.

As a culmination of the five-month long Mass Group Incident curatorial program, 48 Hour Incident features works that the artists have created specifically for 4A. The over-arching context for this exhibition is, as offered by curators Pedro de Almeida, Toby Chapman and Aaron Seeto, "how ephemeral, interdisciplinary and performative artforms embody real social conditions or frictions".

Artists participating in the exhibition include Brown Council's Frances Barrett, visual artist BLAK DOUGLAS, body-centred performance artist Latai Taumoepeau, installation artist JD Reforma, and artist-composer Samson Young. Across all of their disciplines, these and other artists point at the power of the individual to spark up a movement.