Wet Archives
Wet Archives at MADA Gallery is the examination exhibition of the practical component of Allison Gibbs' PhD research, titled Mouth-making an Orifice.
The single-screen film installation presents a scripted moving-image work that engages a personal politics of orificing, a method developed throughout the PhD that seeks to offer a new critical perspective and material reclamation of AI(d)* and donor-conceived subjectivity.
Scripted from creative and theoretical writing, a recorded conversation with Gibbs' mother, archival material, and the recollection of a recurring dream and (mis)recognitions, Wet Archives adopts the logic of dreams, plastic time, bifurcated narrative structure, and shifting modes of address to collapse layers of slippery testimony. This research seeks to reframe historical representations of assisted reproductive technologies, to give voice to Gibbs' mother’s AI experience, and to imagine experimental AI(d) subjectivities.
Join us for a closing event on Saturday 16 December from 2-4pm.
*Artificial insemination by anonymous donor
Wet Archives
16mm/HD, colour, b&w, sound. 33 minutes 7 seconds, 2023
Camera / text / edit
Allison Gibbs
Assistant director
Ruth Höflich
Director of Photography / 2nd camera
Oscar O’Shea
Sound production
Casey Rice
Technical support
Charles Lemire
Lab processing
Neglab
Nanolab
Hand processing
Allison Gibbs
Scan
Memorylab
Shot on
Kodak 500T / 200T / 250D / Double X /
Fuji 250D (expired) / Fuji Eterna 250 (expired)
This artwork was made on the unceded lands and waterways of the Dja Dja Warrung, Kulin, Taribelang Bunda and Wiradjuri Nations. To these people, present, past and emerging, I pay my respect. Sovereignty was never ceded.
Event Details
- Date:
- 13 December 2023 at 12:00 am – 16 December 2023 at 12:00 am
- Venue:
- MADA Gallery, Building D, Caulfield campus
- Categories:
- Gallery / Exhibition; Gallery: MADA Gallery
Description
Wet Archives at MADA Gallery is the examination exhibition of the practical component of Allison Gibbs' PhD research, titled Mouth-making an Orifice.
The single-screen film installation presents a scripted moving-image work that engages a personal politics of orificing, a method developed throughout the PhD that seeks to offer a new critical perspective and material reclamation of AI(d)* and donor-conceived subjectivity.
Scripted from creative and theoretical writing, a recorded conversation with Gibbs' mother, archival material, and the recollection of a recurring dream and (mis)recognitions, Wet Archives adopts the logic of dreams, plastic time, bifurcated narrative structure, and shifting modes of address to collapse layers of slippery testimony. This research seeks to reframe historical representations of assisted reproductive technologies, to give voice to Gibbs' mother’s AI experience, and to imagine experimental AI(d) subjectivities.
Join us for a closing event on Saturday 16 December from 2-4pm.
*Artificial insemination by anonymous donor
Wet Archives
16mm/HD, colour, b&w, sound. 33 minutes 7 seconds, 2023
Camera / text / edit
Allison Gibbs
Assistant director
Ruth Höflich
Director of Photography / 2nd camera
Oscar O’Shea
Sound production
Casey Rice
Technical support
Charles Lemire
Lab processing
Neglab
Nanolab
Hand processing
Allison Gibbs
Scan
Memorylab
Shot on
Kodak 500T / 200T / 250D / Double X /
Fuji 250D (expired) / Fuji Eterna 250 (expired)
This artwork was made on the unceded lands and waterways of the Dja Dja Warrung, Kulin, Taribelang Bunda and Wiradjuri Nations. To these people, present, past and emerging, I pay my respect. Sovereignty was never ceded.