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Makaela Rowe-Fox
Actional Attempt
exhibition
offsite
13 Sep – 21 Sep 2024
18:00–17:00
Cool Change and PS Art Space are pleased to present Actional Attempt, a solo exhibition by Makaela Rowe-Fox.
Actional Attempt is a single-channel video that explores concepts of interdependence across borders/bodies/biomes. The video features Rowe-Fox’s interlocking concrete sculptures as a theoretical and tangible framework to explore fragile borders. Filmed at multiple sites across Boorloo where human and non-human entities intersect in ways that reflect conflicts of power and culture, Makaela Rowe-Fox explores visual entanglement and potential for action. Actional Attempt considers, symbolically represents, and captures attempts at resistance, struggle, and subversion.
Alongside the exhibition, Rowe-Fox will present a community writing workshop, looking at cultural entanglement and symbiotic spaces.
Actional Attempt features Lara Dorling, Victoire Hemedi, Sam Nerida, and Ella-Rose Trew.
Lateral Shelf
Exhibition opening:
6:00 – 8:00 PM
Friday, 13 September 2024
With to hold a space for the body to give
Public programming:
TBA
Writing workshops:
1️⃣ Saturday, 21 September @ PS, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
2️⃣ Saturday, 5 October @ CC, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Exhibition duration:
13 – 21 September 2024
CC × PS:
Ground Level (PS Art Space)
22 Pakenham Street
Fremantle WA 6160
Sunday – Monday • Closed
Tuesday – Friday • 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Saturday • 12:00 – 4:00 PM
Unless otherwise specified
Makaela Rowe-Fox is an emerging interdisciplinary artist and writer based in Boorloo on Whadjuk Noongar land. In her practice, Makaela explores resistance and human-animal alliance in response to the crisis of the Anthropocene. Moving across photography, video art, sculpture, contemporary performance and playwrighting, Makaela often imagines ecologically weird relationships with non-human living beings.
Makaela has exhibited at Bus Projects (VIC, 2020) and Cullity Gallery (WA, 2021-23). As a writer for performance, projects include; developing two new plays with Black Swan State Theatre Company and ATYP (NSW) as part of their Fresh Ink initiative (2024); co-writing and performing in 2023 Perth Festival commission Seven Sisters; writing Jellyfish Business for ATYP’s National Studio residency (NSW, 2023); and writing The Pelican (dir. Alexa Taylor, com. WAYTco, 2022). Alongside dance collaborators, Makaela has also performed and choreographed independently in December Project, presented by the Art Gallery of Western Australia (2020). Makaela was a recipient of Amnesty International’s Ambassador of Conscience Award, their most prestigious human rights award, in 2019 for her leading role as a climate activist in the Fridays for Future movement.
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