Hover, dissolve, tether : a workshop with Briony Galligan

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WHEN: Wednesday 18 March 1-3PM 
WHERE: Arts Lab, Level 1, Building 159, Arts and Cultural (next to the George Paton Gallery)
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Abstraction in art could be described as a form of queer embodiment that resists representational forms. We will consider these as three prompts for making installation work. We will experiment making abstract installation as a queer mode. Participants are invited to bring three objects with them; an object that floats; an object that sinks or dissolves and; an object that holds something up. 

We will look at the work of Feliz Gonzalez-Torres, Jesse Darling, D Harding.

Some ideas for objects could be: 

Floating: ball, curtain, a log

Dissolving/sinking: candy, kettle bell

Tethers something: rope, hook

(There will also be a bunch of materials for you to use in the workshop, so just come along, with or without objects!)

Biography 

Briony Galligan was born on palawa Country and is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Working across drawing, installation, and sculpture, Galligan creates environments that hover between coherence and dissolution. Their practice considers objects as conduits through states of transformation, exploring conditions such as queerness, illness, and permeability. 

Image credit: Briony Galligan, ‘cascade of sighing’, 2025, glazed stoneware casts of the pavement at the AIDS Memorial Garden, marine rope, forged iron clasp. Installed as part of the AIDS Memorial Garden Walking Tour, outside the old Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital, now campus of Melbourne Polytechnic, a vocational training institution. Photo: Charlie Brophy