withheld presents site-responsive works by Robert Curgenven and Georgia Hayward that investigate the histories of containment across The Old Lock Up site. Through sonic and spatial installation responses, these artists challenge and interrogate the thresholds of the space to offer new perspectives on the legacies of the prison site.

Through resonance and waterways, both artists consider the social, physical and ontological thresholds of the cell and vestibule spaces. Robert’s work utilises the architectural volume of the site with the air’s specific qualities (humidity, temperature, pressure) with respect to adjacent volumes via these thresholds, whilst Georgia looks to the river as a conduit between lineage, place and history. These oscillations and flow paths at once disorient and re-situate one’s self within the context, location and histories of this site.

Air, water and architecture are brought into a dynamic and tactile relation with the outside — an immersive exchange through these thresholds. These works consider the limitations and structures that uphold the histories of Old Lock Up site, and what is and what cannot be contained within this site.

Artist Talk | 6.30pm

Georgia Hayward and Robert Curgenven with IN | ARI Co-Director Ruby Donohoe

Georgia Hayward | www.georgiahayward.com

Georgia Hayward [she/her] is an artist, writer and artsworker of Mardigan/Maranganji and Anglo-Celtic descent. Utilising the urban environment as both subject and substrate to investigate constructed of civic space in australia and its impacts on contemporary social dynamics and community development. Georgia investigates these ideas through social, spatial and digital practices to engage with polyphonic and polycentric readings of public space to cultivate relational, place-based and regenerative community outcomes.

Robert Curgenven | www.recordedfields.net/bio/

Robert Curgenven [he/him] is an extra-disciplinary artist producing large-scale audiovisual experiences, albums, performances and installations. His work emphasizes physicality, our embodied response to sound and its correspondence to location, air, weather and architecture - the underlying significance of context and spatial relationships. His recorded output includes Tailte Cré-Umha (Bronze Lands) and SIRÈNE for his Recorded Fields Editions; Oltre and Built Through for LINE imprint; and Climata, recorded in 15 of James Turrell’s Skyspaces across 9 countries.

ACCESS

Unfortunately, The Old Lock Up is not wheelchair accessible. There are 4 x 30cm high stairs linking the yard area to the internal space. More info + photos available via www.in-ari.com.au. At this time, IN | artist run initiative are unable to provide Auslan Interpretation or Audio Description services.

We respectfully acknowledge the Kabi Kabi and Jinibara people as the traditional owners of the the region of land upon which IN | artist run initiative operates. We pay sincere respect to the Elders both past and present and emerging. Always Was, Always Will Be.

The IN | SITE 2024 Destabilise Program is supported through the Creative Industries Investment Program and is jointly funded by Sunshine Coast Council Arts and Heritage Levy and the Regional Arts Development Fund in partnership with the Queensland Government