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  • The Gas Imaginary –Rachel O'Reilly
  • The Gas Imaginary –Rachel O'Reilly
  • The Gas Imaginary –Rachel O'Reilly
  • The Gas Imaginary –Rachel O'Reilly

The Gas Imaginary

Rachel O'Reilly

02 October–
19 December 2020

Curated by: Denise Ryner

Rachel O'Reilly, Installation view of INFRACTIONS, acrylic paint and marker, 2019. Photo: Dennis Ha

Rachel O'Reilly, Installation view of INFRACTIONS, acrylic paint and marker, 2019. Photo: Dennis Ha

Rachel O'Reilly, Installation view of INFRACTIONS, acrylic paint and marker, 2019. Photo: Dennis Ha

Rachel O'Reilly, Installation view of Drawing Rights, 2018 (left), and The Gas Imaginary, 2014 (top right) and Gladstone, Post-pastoral, 2016 (bottom right), exhibition at the Or Gallery, 2019. Photo: Dennis Ha

Rachel O'Reilly, Installation view of Drawing Rights, 2018 (left), and The Gas Imaginary, 2014 (top right) and Gladstone, Post-pastoral, 2016 (bottom right), exhibition at the Or Gallery, 2020. Photo: Dennis Ha.

Rachel O'Reilly, The Gas Imaginary, exhibition at Or Gallery, 2020. Photo: Dennis Ha

Rachel O'Reilly, Installation view of INFRACTIONS, 1:03:00 HD Video, 2019. Photo: Dennis Ha

Rachel O'Reilly, Installation view of INFRACTIONS, 1:03:00 HD Video, 2019. Photo: Dennis Ha

Rachel O'Reilly, Installation view of INFRACTIONS, 1:03:00 HD Video, 2019. Photo: Dennis Ha

Rachel O’Reilly and Pa.LaC.E (Valle Medina and Benjamin Reynolds), Installation view of Drawing Rights, 17:09, HD Video, 2018. Photo: Dennis Ha.

Rachel O'Reilly, Installation view of The Gas Imaginary, 2014 (top), and Gladstone, Post-pastoral, 2016 (bottom), exhibition at the Or Gallery, 2020. Photo: Dennis Ha

Rachel O'Reilly, Installation view of The Gas Imaginary, 2014 (top), and Gladstone, Post-pastoral, 2016 (bottom), exhibition at the Or Gallery, 2020. Photo: Dennis Ha

The Gas Imaginary

Rachel O'Reilly

Curated by: Denise Ryner

A multi-disciplinary project using poetry, collaborative drawings, installation, moving images, and lectures to unpack the broader significance of ‘settler conceptualism’, the racial logic of the property form and fossil fuel-based labour politics as capital reaches the limits of land use. In ongoing dialogue with elders of Gooreng Gooreng country and settler women activists, where fracking was approved for mass installation in ‘Australia’, new elements of this work address the threatened destruction to 50% of the Northern Territory.

 

Included in the exhibition is INFRACTIONS, a feature length documentary. Daily start times are 12:00pm, 1:03pm, 2:06pm, 3:09pm, and 4:12pm.

 

For more information, exhibition documentation and artist talks, visit The Gas Imaginary Project Page.

Artist Bio

Rachel O'Reilly

is an artist, writer/poet, curator and PhD researcher at Goldsmiths’ Centre for Research Architecture. She teaches the theory seminar ‘At the Limits of the Writerly’ on planetarity, political economy and poetics at the Dutch Art Institute. She was previously a curator at the Australian Cinematheque at the Gallery of Modern Art | Australian Cinematheque, Brisbane, and researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy. Her artistic work and research have been presented internationally, most recently at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; E-flux, New York; and UNSW Galleries, Sydney. Recent curatorial collaborations include Ex-Embassy with Sonja Hornung and Planetary Records: Performing Justice between Art and Law with Natasha Ginwala. She co-wrote On Neutrality with Jelena Vesic and Vlidi Jeric for the Non-Aligned Modernisms series (MCA, Belgrade), publishes with Danny Butt on artistic autonomy in settler colonial space, and currently coedits Feminist Takes on Black Wave Film with Antonia Majaca and Jelena Vesic for Sternberg Press.
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