International artists explore the ghostly inhabitations of the ‘home’ in a new group show at ACCA, presented as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival.Curated by ACCA’s Artistic Director Juliana Engberg and organised by Hannah Mathews,The Dwelling brings together a series of spooky works from leading contemporary artists, each exploring the surreal, the haunted and the very strange.Artists included are Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Chantal Akerman, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, David Haines & Joyce Hinterding, Michaela Melián, Callum Morton, David Noonan & Simon Tevaks, Sofia Hultén and Calum Stirling.
A brief history of ACCA: The ACCA is free, it only shows contempory art, every exhibition is only up for 2 months, ACCA dosnt exhibit paintings and sculptures, but does exhibit singers, dancers and even had an avery of live finches, always contemporary.
The Dwelling was an exhibition of 12 artists. The piece that stood out the most for me was the, The great Artesian Basin, 2003. It was created by 2 Australian artists, David Haines and Joyce Hinterding. The house seems to be posessed/haunted it has water gushing out of it, it is like an image you would see on a movie for example Jumanji. The house looks dead, It is like an image from the acopolyspe, there is no life, people have been washed away.
It was a weird exhibition it wasnt what i was expecting it was dark and spooky something that dosnt excite me very much but once the speaker explained the pieces to us it started to get a bit mose interesting.
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