UNDER AMOUR
Cinema 2, Level 2
ACMI, Fed Square
Tues Sep 10, 1830

Ethics, support structures, love, hiding; compression and shape wear. All this as ‘beneath’ what?

Under Amour is a performance lecture, presented in partnership with MUMA and MADA, in which Australian-born, Amsterdam-based contemporary artist Ivan Cheng presents his video works – which stem from the documentation of his context-specific performance projects – alongside other texts and forms of presentation.

Cheng will also introduce NP, his upcoming performance-exhibition at Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA. NP involves the participation of visual arts students from the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School in a system of entrustment, proposed gifts, and enactment. To mark his first Australian institutional presentation in several years, Cheng invokes a Santa figure travelling with a bounty from the North Pole, interested in production, logistics and sustainability alongside a willingness to suspend disbelief.

photos Brianna Speight