Simone de Beauvoir's A Very Easy Death.
Lecture, This Way (2015) - Installation
at Victorian College of the Arts College Flat
Opened on 8 October, 2015, 5pm to 7pm
Exhibition from 9 to 13 October, 2015, 2pm to 5pm daily
“If orientations point us to the future, to what we are moving toward, then they also keep open the possibility of changing directions, of finding other paths, perhaps those that do not clear a common ground, where we can find hope in what goes astray. Looking back is what keeps open the possibility of going astray. We look back, we go behind; we conjure what is missing from the face. This backward glance also means an openness to the future, as the imperfect translation of what is behind us.” - Sara Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
An installation by Loo Zihan responding to Kim Donaldson’s From the Lecture – A Reminder of Life (1996). Kim’s installation documents her father’s experience of caring for her brother who passed away from HIV/AIDS-related complications in August 1995.
Twenty years on, Zihan archives and re-presents Kim’s installation alongside documentation compiled from Zihan’s research visits to the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives (ALGA) over his two-month residency.
Lecture, This Way was sited within the residency flat on the VCA campus and opens up the artist’s private residency space for public view, highlighting the subject/object relationship and the role of the caregiver for the patient, the artist for the artwork, and caretaker for the archive.
This Asialink Arts Residency Project is a collaboration between Asialink, theVictorian College of the Arts and The Art Incubator and is supported by Creative Victoria.
Download the Preliminary Reading distributed as part of the installation experience here.
A single-channel video that was part of the installation. This video features audio interviews with Nick Henderson from the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives and artist Kim Donaldson.
Documentation of 81 objects from the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archive:
