Elevator ARI
May 06-26, 2023
Lismore, NSW
Australia

Ultra-Terrestrial brings together works by FILTH that explore the uneasy relationship with the body. It draws on feminist, posthumanist and queer practice to create speculative works that remind the viewer of their own physicality, in all its messy discomfort and visceral possibility. 

Ultra-Terrestrial creates encounters with the distributed and distorted body through video, sound and sculpture. Eschewing the social expectations that require the body to remain tidy, the exhibition treats the body as a physical and material site, embracing its potential for abjection. The exhibition mimics the form of a carnival that simultaneously features the body and becomes a bodily form itself.    

Photographic documentation by Sarah Walker and Fabian Pertzel.
Poster design: Lewis Gittus

Works:

Lewis Gittus. Through Peat and Pebbled Earth. 2022.
Five-channel video, three-channel audio, 10m:00s. 

Andrea Meacham. (ex)Magicka. 2023
Polyester fabric, raw silk, beads, sequins, cotton thread, fabric dye, alcohol ink, eyeglasses, cardboard, spray paint, rope, aluminium wig stand, latex, heart-shaped confetti hand-punched from a kids' how-to magic book, live performance. 

Andrea Meacham. Be my salty muse. 2023
Acrylic, latex, pigment on wood panel.

Anna Schwann. Chalice/Bottomfeeder. 2023
Tarpaulin, rope, bioplastic, potatoes, fluoro lights, water pump, dish liquid, water, timber, springs. 

Sarah Walker. Jump Scare. 2023.
Single-channel video with binaural audio, 8m:59s.