While we are big fans of surfing television streaming offerings as it’s possible to be, every now and then you crave something a little artsier in your life. That’s why we’re psyched about Carriageworks delivering a thought-provoking new video work from award-winning Polish-Australian artist and filmmaker Kuba Dorabialski.
While we can’t visit the Eveleigh arts institution right now, they are keeping our cultural lives well-fed with this chance to stream the Invocation Trilogy – a series of video works exploring the intersection of language, politics and cultural memory – totally free from August 18 to October 10. Dorabialski examines his Eastern European ties, taking a somewhat unique approach. While Slavic language speakers will pick up bits and pieces, the work also features an entirely made-up lingo. Presented as absurdist comedy, the artist uses the imagery and this new tongue to ask what we really mean when we refer to ‘Eastern Europe’?
Anyone who has ever found themselves stereotyped by their background will get a kick out of this new work, which begins with an encore for his award-winning short Floor Dance of Lenin’s Resurrection from 2017, and culminates in the world premiere of the third and final film in the sequence, the feature-length Connection of the Sticks. The series was due to be unveiled at Carriageworks IRL, but they’re treating us to a digital pivot instead.
You can check it out here from August 18, and a chat between Dorabialski and curator Daniel Mudie Cunningham will be streamed online on August 31.
