Angelica Mesiti: ASSEMBLY

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Angelica Mesiti, ASSEMBLY (production still), 2019, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, image courtesy and © the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery, photograph: Bonnie Elliott.

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'In ASSEMBLY, I explore the space where communication moves from verbal and written forms to non-verbal, gestural and musical forms. The latter creates a sort of code upon which meaning, memory and imagination can be overlaid.’

– Angelica Mesiti

A leading voice of her generation, Angelica Mesiti represented Australia at the 58th Venice Biennale with the three-channel video installation ASSEMBLY.

In ASSEMBLY, Mesiti probes the nature of connection. She uses a stenographic machine to transpose into shorthand Australian writer David Malouf’s To Be Written in Another Tongue (1976). These notes become the basis of a musical score by Australian composer Max Lyandvert and a dance performance by the First Nations choreographer Deborah Brown. In the work, these are performed by musicians and dancers who represent the many ancestries that make up contemporary Australia.

Project 3: Angelica Mesiti: ASSEMBLY was commissioned by the Australia Council for the Arts and is a Know My Name project.

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