How to Cut an Orange at COMME des GARÇONS Melbourne Book Stand
Presented by COMME des GARÇONS Melbourne
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Free, booking required
COMME des GARÇONS Melbourne, 13 Somerset Place, Melbourne
This event will be a conversation with artist Zoë Croggon, moderated by Amelia Winata (Memo Review) and Dan Rule (Perimeter Books). The discussion will delve into the raw process of developing and actualising Zoë’s book How to Cut an Orange.
Piecing together a selection of works made over the last eight years, Croggon’s striking new artist’s book How to Cut an Orange embraces the written word more wholeheartedly than ever before. Featuring an incisive abstracted essay by the celebrated young poet Samantha Abdy, and a selection of poems by Croggon’s mother – the renowned cultural critic, author and poet, Alison Croggon – How to Cut an Orange puts the artist’s sensuous, visceral photographic collages in direct conversation with the words and worlds that bracket and surround them. As much as Croggon’s practice is one of deep research and introspection, it also gazes outward. ‘It is perhaps about being a spectator in the world,’ writes Abdy in her essay. ‘It is about having a body in the world. It’s about being in the world.’
Participants
Perimiter books
Perimeter is a specialised bookstore, award-winning publisher, distribution house and platform for various art publishing endeavours in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 2011, Perimeter Books stocks a selective range of independently published books, editions and zines spanning photography, art, theory, text and the more lateral ends of design and architecture. The store also curates an active program of exhibitions, talks, launches, workshops and consultations, and co-presents Same Page Art Book Fair with Gertrude Contemporary (Melbourne), and Volume: Another Art Book Fair with Printed Matter Inc. (NY) and Artspace (Sydney).
Amelia Winata
Amelia Winata is a writer and curator based in Melbourne (Naarm/Birrarung-ga). She has written for various publications and galleries including Art Monthly Australasia, Art Guide, Australian Art Collector, un, Shepparton Art Gallery, CCP and MUMA. She is also a founding member of the arts criticism platform Memo Review. Winata is currently a co-editor of EMAJ. She was previously sub-editor of un Magazine vol. 11 (2017), a member of the un Editorial Advisory Committee (2015-2018), and a recipient of the Gertrude Contemporary Emerging Writers Program (2015). Recent curatorial projects include Wayfind as part of the West Space x Next Wave Co-commission (2018). Winata is a PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Melbourne. Her research topic is the German artist Charlotte Posenenske (1930-1945).
Zoë Croggon
Zoë Croggon is an Australian photographic artist holding a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours from the Victorian College of the Arts. She has held solo exhibitions at the National Gallery of Victoria, Gertrude Contemporary, Centre for Contemporary Photography, and Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, and has participated in group exhibitions at Heide Museum of Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Samstag Museum of Art, and the Museum of Australian Photography. She is the recipient of the Maddocks Prize (2019), Art Gallery of New South Wales Studio Scholarship (2018), Asia-Pacific Photobook Prize (2015), and the ARTAND Australia Contemporary Art Award (2014). Zoë is represented by Daine Singer, Melbourne.