Jasper Jordan-Lang is a Melbourne-based artist working across sculpture and film. Jordan-Lang interrogates urban landscapes through a speculative lens, imagining a collapse of distinction between past, present, and future. Focusing on aspects of the urban environment such as indexical, transitory marks, as well as infrastructural and utilitarian textures, Jordan-Lang suggests details of his immediate surroundings as out of place artefacts in an imagined future. Subculture, rumours, and physical clues in the public domain are thus a blank canvas for a non-specific, implied narrative of everyday peculiarity and future speculation.
Another end is possible
Another end is possible is a site-specific investigation into a series of occult carvings in Richmond, Melbourne. The carvings are the subject an urban legend divulged by Melbourne’s infamous Cave Clan. According to members of this subculture, they were done by Australian Avant-Garde Artist and polemicist, Mike Brown. The work presents an archaeology of both the carvings themselves, as well as the location in which they were found. Drawing parallels between aspects of the urban environment from the site, and ancient archaeological artefacts, Another end is possible examines the links between the everyday and the mystical.
Installation view 1
Installation view 2
Installation view 3
Installation view 4
Jasper Jordan-Lang, Another end is possible
Jasper Jordan-Lang, Installation view 1
Jasper Jordan-Lang, Installation view 2
Jasper Jordan-Lang, Installation view 3
Jasper Jordan-Lang, Installation view 4
In the spirit of reconciliation Monash University acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
