Please join us to celebrate the opening of Proposal for a Body, an exhibition of noise, text, and performance markers by Jo Bragg and Georgina Brett.

Emancipated from corporeal limitations and embracing the liminal. Proposal for a Body is an immaterial text and sound-based work of anti-performance, by Jo Bragg and Georgina Brett. Pushing back against the pursuit of productivity: commodification and hierarchy.

Bodies contrary / Writhing, telling lies / Manufactured fear / Pedestrian at best
To go numb and be reborn in your own image / Naked machines / Cold words
Cruel intentions1

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1 excerpt from the poem Cruel intentions by Jo Bragg (2024).

Exhibition opens: Thursday 7 November, 5.30pm, with refreshments by Liberty Breweries
Hours: 12 – 4pm, Tuesday – Saturday
Closes: Saturday 30 November

Jo Bragg is a Tāmaki Makaurau born and based visual-artist, poet, essayist and gender theorist. Bragg is co-founder of Meanwhile artist-run initiative and holds an MFA by Research (First Class Honours) awarded in 2021 by Monash University (Naarm, Melbourne). His published writing can be found with The Art Paper, Bad Apple, Free Association Press, The Big Idea, Art News New Zealand, Australian i-D, Art Monthly Australasia, Pantograph Punch, Mimicry Journal, Salient and Fane Magazine. Bragg’s video works are documented online by Circuit Artist Moving Image Aotearoa. His photographic works are held in collection with the Pōneke, Wellington City Council and Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū.

Georgina Brett is an artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau. They graduated from Elam School of Fine arts with an MFA in 2013. Recent exhibitions and projects include: Proposal for a Body, Enjoy Contemporary Art Space, Wellington, Artist Internship, Neu Kirche Contemporary Art Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Exchanges of Force, public installation, East Deutschtown, Pittsburgh; In The Making, Neu Kirche Contemporary Art Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Tripping the Edge, In-Summoning-Between, The Audio Foundation, Auckland; Untitled Still-life, Snakepit Window-Space, Auckland; To Take Place, group show, Window, The University of Auckland; Elam Graduate show, Elam, The University of Auckland; Spoilsport, Snakepit, Auckland; Pollution, group show, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland; Borrowed Space, artist project space, Sydney.

This exhibition opens alongside VINYL, a cinematic exploration of plunderphonics by Daniel Strang.