Carrion by Justin Shoulder. Photo by Bryony Jackson.

Carrion by Justin Shoulder with Corin Ileto

ACCA

Join a live performance of Carrion by Justin Shoulder with an accompanying live score by Corin Ileto as part of ACCA’s exhibition Feedback Loops.

Justin Shoulder emerges as Carrion, a chimeric creature, in a performance that compels us to consider post-human embodiment in our state of planetary disarray. As a continuation of Shoulder’s repertoire of bestiary, Phasmahammer, this hybrid human/animal/cyborg delves into ancient wisdoms, the mess of the present and polymorphous complexity of a speculative future. Carrion: Episodes are part of Shoulder’s club performance series and the greater ongoing body of work Carrion.

Date    Saturday 22 February 2020
Time   6.30pm
Venue ACCA [Australian Centre for Contemporary Art]

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    ABOUT THE ARTISTS

    Justin Shoulder is an artist working in performance, sculpture, video and nightlife/community events production. He was born on the un-ceded lands of the Gadigal people (Sydney) and is of Filipino and European heritage. His main body of work Phasmahammer is an ecology of alter personas based on queered ancestral myth. These creatures are embodied through hand crafted costumes and prosthesis and animated by their own gestural languages. Shoulder uses his body and craft to forge connections between queer, migrant, spiritual and intercultural experiences. He is a founding member of queer artist collective The Glitter Militia (Monsta Gras, Pink Bubble) with partner and key collaborator Matthew Stegh and Club Ate with collaborator Bhenji Ra.

    Shoulder’s works have been presented across Australia and Internationally where he works between gallery, nightclub, theatre and cinema contexts. Recent performance highlights include:  La Manutention performance artist in residence at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris 2019, The Prague Quadrennial of Stage Design, 2019, Premiere of theatre work Carrion, Performance Space, Sydney (AUS) + subsequent tour to Artshouse, Melb (AUS), Fusebox Festival, Texas (USA), Museum Macan, Jakarta (IDN), Roskilde (DEN), M+ (HK), Singapore Art Museum (SGD). Asia Pacfic Triennial 8 GOMA (AUS).

    Shoulder will present new work at the 22nd Bienalle of Sydney: NIRIN, curated by Brook Andrew 2020. He is currently developing a new body of work TURBO ENCANGTO, for dissemination 2020 – 2021.

    phasmahammer.com

    “Shoulder’s performance has an astonishing intensity, a sense of ritual and precision of movement that reaches deep into the subconscious.” – Witness Performance

    “CARRION presents something like a dream-space – an allegorical space, a space of in-betweens and of fantastical proportions – in which critical questions about contemporary humanity present as vivid, amorphous emotions. ” –  RealTime

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    Date: Saturday 22 February
    Time: 6.30pm
    Venue: ACCA [Australian Centre for Contemporary Art]
    Running Time: 30 mins
    Tickets: $10–15

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