could it be found in gardens of dust?

6 channel video installation (20 minutes)
wreckers upstairs, meanjin (brisbane), september 2022

​"across six screens, a psychosexual occupation of the space unfolds, documenting a personal, sometimes mundane, and often horny autoethnographic journey." - tara heffernan

could it be found in gardens of dust? is a site-responsive video installation. the outcome of a six week residency in the upstairs gallery at wreckers, the work documents the artist's sexual body navigating the ruins of the building's industrial past. sexually intuitive and emotionally introspective, could it be found in gardens of dust? materialises a moment of queer liberation and personal growth.

​​'the site was formerly a traditionally macho-coded workplace, a bike wreckers. the exposed beams and corrugated surfaces hold traces of this history. a generative parallel: the cavernous inside is reminiscent of the iconic decaying piers along the hudson river which were frequented by the local queer community as a discreet site for meetups. though wreckers holds similar potential as a cruising space, as it progressed,  could it be found in gardens of dust?  became more introspective: about making, masturbating, self-imaging, and the eros of creative energies and exchanges—the facilitation of which is often boasted by art spaces held together by small local communities. decades before, the piers similarly developed into incredibly important sites for the creation of art and community.' - tara heffernan
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exhibition essay by tara heffernan

​charlie hillhouse | assistance w/ cinematography
hayden potter | sound design

documentation by charlie hillhouse.