D11 at DOCKLANDS

The Poetics of Spacetime
Leonie Connellan
Front Gallery


Leonie Connellan is a print-based artist from Melbourne, Australia. Her work explores the relationship between the physical sciences of the universe and how we find our place in it through storytelling — the interweaving of fact and fiction to create a comprehensive understanding of the whole. She explores the role of the night sky in storytelling, and how we use the latter to build on the knowledge of our existence, with the ultimate goal of instilling a sense of scientific understanding, wonder and curiosity about the structure of the universe and our place in it.

The Poetics of Spacetime addresses the shape of our universe and how we strive to document that geometry through literature and language. Leonie's work is concurrently general and intimate, focusing on the stories that speak to us both as a whole and on the most personal levels, as is true of every great fiction.



Act of Permanent Suspension (Derived by Chance Altered Continuously)

A new performance installation by Robert Mangion and Christos Linou. 

Opening night performance, 
Saturday 22 November, 7.00 pm
Rear Gallery


Act of Permanent Suspension (Derived by Chance - Altered Continuously) is an occupation and continual modification of the exhibition viewing space. Two performance interventions, will determine the reshaping of the installation, which invite the viewer to interrelate with the work.

The artwork emerges through the actions, performance and gestures of the collaborating artist and involuntary participants. The idea sustained throughout the project is that the artwork itself is a durational event, rooted in elements of chance, indeterminacy and casual change.

Act of Permanent Suspension (Derived by Chance - Altered Continuously) is anchored in an ontological relationship between sculptural objects and the phenomenology of mimetic gestures, in order to investigate links between the concrete and the apparitional. Sculptural objects are juxtaposed with interplays of choreographed abstract movement. The work created from this exchange includes joint involuntary drawing, sculptural objects, video and choreographed performance.

The artists co-founded, Intertextual Bodies. (1999 - 2003) Where the inquiry, was of a social/ political body, in public sites. These were shaped as interventions of public architecture from the position of a disqualified body, a trespassing body, an inside-out body and a body refusing to dance. The work, ‘Act of Refusing to Dance’ was presented at the 2003 Melbourne Festival. 

Robert Mangion is a Melbourne based artist working in composite mediums, including video, sound, performance, sculptural and text based installation. Currently undertaking a PhD his research explores relational psychoanalytical theory and collaborative art practice. Since completing his fine arts honors year at RMIT in 1988 he has exhibited his work extensively in solo and group shows throughout Australia and overseas recently completing a research and development residency at the Freud Museum in London.

Christos Linou is a choreographer and experimental filmmaker, and generates ideas through altering perceptions on the bodies relationships to real-time and embodiment. Presently he is completing his Masters research in durational performance. He presented ‘Naked Peel ’(twelve-hour performance) at D11 in 2013. His Naked Peel work is featured on the IMMATERIAL, a digital journal for durational performance, founded by the Marina Abramovic Institute.