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OPENING EVENT
SAT 4 December 2021
12.30pm - 2.30pm

ARTIST WALK-THROUGH
SAT 12 MARCH 2022
2pm - 3pm Free, booking required
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CLOSING EVENT
SAT 9 APRIL 2022
4PM - 6pm Free, booking required
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The inaugural Hyphenated Biennial at The Substation presents ten new commissions by First Nations and Asian diasporic artists, bringing together a collective project that held us through the turbulent years of 2020 and 2021.


This exhibition centres around the artists’ explorations of personal histories, while examining the sites they inhabit, materials they inherit and the systems they exist within. At a time of huge loss, we have been confronted with questions of our existence, (artistic) agency, and our responsibilities to those around us—the threads that connect us all. Between the personal and collective across space and time, the projects respond to each other through knowledge learnt, embodied and shared. Together they create a dialogue that foregrounds their relativity to each other as artists, cohabiting in the same site but each with their own perspectives. An exhibition set out to strengthen our communities, we hope this project informs the greater narratives of our time with care and solidarity. Here, we sow a seed for our possible collective futures.


ARTIST WALK-THROUGH

SAT 12 MARCH 2022, 2pm - 3pM
Free, booking required

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Join artists Jenna Lee, Ellen YG Son, Siying Zhou and Ashley Perry, along with co-director of Hyphenated Projects, Phuong Ngo, for artist floor talks and a walkthrough of the Hyphenated Biennial exhibition.



CLOSING EVENT

SAT 9 APRIL 2022, 4pm - 6pM
Free, booking required

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*update: due to unforeseen circumstances Cerulean will no longer be performing at the closing event.


Join us in celebration for the last day of the Hyphenated Biennial with an awards ceremony for Sick Art Prize and performance by Cerulean.

Cerulean is the current reigning Miss First Nation 2021. She is an expressive blue gem of a performer who descended from the Pisces constellation to bless mere mortals with a raining cloud of excitement, energy and fun! Her body morphs into an ensemble of contrasting forms, exploring conceptual performance.

Sick Art Prize is a performance as part of Siying Zhou and Ashley Perry’s “The fable of the contemporary artist (visual art) - “All following stories are fictional and do not depict any actual person or event” (2021) currently showing at The Substation for Hyphenated Biennial 2021-2022. Join the artists for the awards ceremony of the inaugural Sick Art Prize. As the latest most prestigious art award in Australia, the six winning artists have presented the most exemplary talent for luck.




Presented by The Substation and Hyphenated Projects


IMAGE credit: INSTALLATION VIEW by Janelle Low
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