Chronomingle

19.10.—
30.11.24

Siying Zhou, Production still on site at Dandenong Ranges National Park, Wurundjeri Country (2023). Photograph by the artist.

Chronomingle is a neologism for describing the interplay of storytelling practices across diverse media and art forms. Combining ‘chronos’ (time) and ‘mingle’ (to mix or blend), the term seeks to encapsulate how multiple, interwoven narratives can converge, overlap and interact within a single work, exhibition or event. With this conception in mind, Chronomingle considers ways that artists variously blend, juxtapose and layer temporalities and materials to reflect the complexities of human experience. By unifying multiple timeframes and experiences within a single artistic or curatorial framework, ‘chronomingling’ becomes the practice of creating new connections and associations to recast storytelling as a complex network of allegorical relationships.

The artists in this exhibition combine visual art, performance, movement, song, literature, film and digital media to explore the fluidity of time and the interconnectedness of diverse cultural experiences. In presenting a range of very different approaches to storytelling, Chronomingle seeks to capture something of the nature of stories that resonate across different historical and cultural contexts and bind us together through the languages of word, melody, object, space and image.

Curated by Cūrā8 (Kim Donaldson and Sean Lowry) and featuring:

Jia Jia Chen

Janelle Evans

Peter Hill

Priyanka Jain

Claire Lehmann

Abhijit Pal

Elif Sezen

Stickleback

Zamara Zamara

Siying Zhou