Melbourne Exclusive
Visual
art
Australian Centre
for Contemporary Art (International)
Ourselves
“An impeccable
eye wedded to
a keen intellect.”
ArtForum magazine
(on Juliana Engberg)
Presented by Melbourne Festival and
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
The Australian Centre for
Contemporary Art presents
a mesmerising exhibition of
international artworks – an
intoxicating interrogation of
the nature of the self, in the face
of the many.
There is only one self, but there are many selves.
The self is inescapable, but our selves are myriad,
adaptable, reflective, uncanny. Can we ever know
our self, or are we nothing but overlapping selves,
in search of a voice?
OURSELVES is a wide-ranging and
multidisciplinary international exhibition
that explores the dynamic artistic practice
emerging around the idea of inter-subjectivity,
as told through alter egos, avatars, simulacra,
masquerades, mirroring and more.
Featuring over 20 artists from around the world
working in video, installation, film and document,
OURSELVES is a timely investigation of the
parameters of being in a world where the
assertion “I am” has become something we no
longer own.
Curator Juliana Engberg
Artists Laurie Anderson, Eleanor Antin,
Edgardo Aragón, Sophie Calle, Alan Currall,
Rineke Dijkstra, Valie Export, Omer Fast,
Dan Graham, Mako Idemitsu, Joan Jonas,
Katie Mitchell, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman,
João Penalva, Yvonne Rainer, David Rosetzky,
Martha Rosler, Gregory Shephard, Gillian
Wearing, Rachel Perry Welty, Hannah Wilke
and more
Event Information
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
111 Sturt St, Southbank
Thu 11 Oct – Sun 25 Nov
Special Festival hours
10am – 8pm daily
From 28 Oct
Tue – Fri 10am – 5pm
Sat & Sun 11am – 6pm
Mon by appointment
FREE
melbournefestival.com.au
accaonline.org.au
Image Rineke Dijkstra, I See a Woman Crying (Weeping Woman),
Tate Liverpool, 2009–2010. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Marian
Goodman, Paris/New York
ACCA is supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, Arts Victoria
and City of Melbourne.
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