OPENS
6pm, Fri, 31. May

Exhibiting Artists
Ceri Hann; Danielle Freakley; Eric Demetriou; Gabriella D'Costa; Jacqui Shelton with Alice Heyward and Megan Payne; Jake Moore; Makiko Yamamoto; Mel Deerson and Briony Galligan; MP Hopkins; Simon Zoric; Steven Rhall

Performances
Ash Kilmartin; Ceri Hann; Jacqui Shelton, Alice Heyward and Megan Payne; Diego Ramirez; Jake Moore, James Rushford and Rachel Yezbick; Kate Brown; Makiko Yamamoto; Mel Deerson and Briony Galligan; Melody Paloma; MP Hopkins; Sonia Leber and David Chesworth; Timothy Dwyer

Liquid Architecture Co-Artistic Director Joel Stern has been invited by Gertrude Contemporary to curate the 2019 edition of Octopus , an annual exhibition program, initiated in 2001, showcasing experimental and ambitious curatorial research and practice.

The exhibition is called Ventriloquy. It explores things and bodies and voices held in-and-out of sync, in the wrong time or place - through new works and performances by Australian and international artists.

For more information, writing and documentation see the catalogue here

Reviews

Comedy and Chaos
By Audrey Schmidt
MEMO REVIEW

Ventriloquism for dummies: art gallery explores dislocated voices
By Hannah Francis
THE AGE

MOUTHING: Octopus 19: Ventiloquy
By Thomas Ragnar
Un Projects

Octopus 19: Ventriloquy
By Toby Juliff
Art+Australia