Featured Artists:

Sean Miles & kori with many other special guests

Exhibition overview:

kori is a shapeshifter. 

kori is a shift shaper. 

kori is a shit stirrer.

kori is an interdimensional entity.

Sean’s body is a vessel for kori. 

kori is coming into this world!

kori is not from the here and now.

kori does not yet understand human traditions.

kori does not yet understand social constructs.

But kori wants to connect. 

kori needs community.

Please join us from 12.05.2022 - 29.05.2022 at Blak Dot Gallery as we welcome baby kori from another dimension; with gifts, blessings and ritual offerings at our baby shower & gender reveal party!

Special guests include: Ashley Perry, Porobibi, Zamara Zamara, Simona Castricum, Blake Lawrence, Beatrice Rubio-Gabriel, BLECK, Maree Prentice, Jo Bragg, PIPI (Anthony de Bono & Fábio M Silva), Hana Pera Aoake, Nicholas Currie, Renee Cosgrave, SOAP (Camille McLeod, Litia Roko, Lachlan Johnson, & Marcel Berthon), Jake Treacy, Georgia Kartas/Saint Jorge, Moorina Bonini, Jesse Gall, Manisha Anjali, _/\_ (Bon Mott), Agnes Whalan, klari agar, J Davies and Lucie McIntosh

Artist Bio:

Sean Miles (Ngāti Raukawa) is an interdisciplinary and process-based artist, respectfully doing mahi on sacred Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung land in Naarm. Sean predominantly utilises performance, installation, sculpture, photography, video and poetry as mediums to explore ideas.

Sean’s current practice spurs from an enquiry into the correlations between trickster archetypes in ancient knowledge systems and contemporary queer performativity, attitudes, actions and resistance tactics. Sean holds a particular interest in the stories of Māui—the trickster demigod of Māori mythology—and how Māui’s clever wit combined with the powers of shape-shifting and interdimensional travel are used to undermine structural authority and cause a paradigm shift in power distribution - a social and systemic change that benefits those with less privilege and access.

Sean applies simplistic, punk and immediate methods of transformation to at-hand materials and environments as a means to reveal the transformative potential of our everyday make-up. These ritualistic and alchemical-like processes produce objects, costumes and spaces for ceremony to be activated by performance, as an attempt to ~ revive suppressed, reveal hidden and/or generate future ~ folklore.

Inspired by gothic horror and speculative fiction, Sean manifests visions that confront the ongoing damage of colonial and heteronormative social structures, whilst concurrently fostering a space for contemplation on transgression, liberation, healing, regeneration and resilience.

Image Credits: Photo by J Davies, 2022