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Justin Shoulder | AEON†: TITAN ARUM
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2021Aug 11
Enter a carnivalesque night garden illuminated with ‘exotic’, medicinal and dangerous species in this excerpt of Justin Shoulder’s transformational performance series. For The National 2021: New Australian Art Shoulder presents AEON†: TITAN ARUM, a communal garden where one plant might join with another or where one species might care for another. In a series of appearances throughout the exhibition, Shoulder inhabits these plant forms and animates them through dance, light and sound, before disappearing again into ‘nature’. The hanging fruits and carnivorous plants of AEON†: TITAN ARUM echo the pageantry of the Panangbenga Festival in the Philippines, while at the same time produce an alternative world that revels in the possibilities of a queering diasporic community. Filmed on Gadigal Country.

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Art Gallery of NSW

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