Opening Night | Thursday 19 Mar, 6pm–8pm

No Comment brings together various studio experiments by musician and teacher Bridget Chappell with particular attention paid toward their investigations into the science of phase-cancellation as bringing forward an acoustic insurrection through "phase-canceling the cops". Central to Chappell’s enquiry is the imagining of anti-police sound technologies through material research together with theoretical articulations of ungovernable space, tactical defence and silence as a means of political enunciation. This exhibition is a polemic directly engaging the role of musicians and artists sharing a context with the increasing ubiquity of State weaponisation of sound in policing and control. No Comment works from a space of multiple aesthetic conjunctions, underscored by a commitment to a social, political and aesthetic subjectivities of resistance and experimentation; graffiti, rave and sound system culture, noise and experimental music, science fiction and abolitionist politics.

No Comment is the first exhibition by Bridget Chappell and is convened by Thomas Ragnar.

Seeking members for No Comment (Together)

Developed in conjunction with the exhibition by Bridget Chappell, No Comment (Together) is a series of group-work sessions collated around practices and ideas researched by Chappell over the past year. Diverse in method and form some sessions will be for reading, others for playing (with lasers), others for writing and maybe a DIY group-relations conference. While enacted parallel to the exhibition, No Comment (Together) is principally invested in sustained dialogues with a recurring group. We hope to develop a shared and rich language without authority or pedagogy — in and around Bridget Chappell's practice and we invite you to do it with us.

Like the exhibition counterpart No Comment (Together) works from a space of multiple aesthetic conjunctions, underscored by a commitment to the social, political and aesthetic subjectivities of resistance and experimentation; graffiti, rave and sound system culture, noise and experimental music, science fiction and abolitionist politics; with a focus on collectivity. We are alive to the demands of working politically in the gallery; we’re prepared to hold multiple positions and explore public modes the challenge the reputational economy and knowledge based capital of much contemporary art.

Sessions will be held at Blindside Gallery and other locations in the evenings of March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 and April 4. If you’d like to contribute to No Comment (Together) and can commit to attending most, if not all sessions, email info@liquidarchitecture.org.au and we’ll be in touch.

Thomas and Bridget.