Opening Celebrations – Anarchive: Gut-feeling

About the Exhibition
'Anarchive: Gut-feeling' explores how experimental art is experienced, remembered and reimagined.

Bringing together eleven new commissions alongside rarely-seen historic works, the exhibition revisits experimental art through a living archive – one that includes artists and practices that have often been overlooked or underrepresented – particularly those by women.

Across installation, performance (live and recorded), sound, and participatory events, the works challenge the idea of art as something to simply look at. Instead, they emphasise bodily knowledge, participation, digestion and encounter – inviting audiences to engage through feeling, intuition, and shared experience, where works are encountered, absorbed and processed through the body as much as through thought.

Rather than presenting fixed meanings or resolved objects, the exhibition centres experimentation as an ongoing process. Works evolve through testing ideas, collaboration and risk – where outcomes are not always certain, and meaning is shaped through experience.

'Anarchive: Gut-feeling' connects past and present approaches to experimental art, opening up new ways of understanding how art is made, experienced and evolves. The exhibition is part of the Experimental Art Anarchive project – a partnership between ACE, Artlink and FUMA inviting lively conversation with a radical past.

This project is supported by Create SA.

'Anarchive: Gut-feeling' is presented in partnership with Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE), Artlink, and Flinders University Museum of Art (FUMA).

This project is also supported by History Trust of South Australia and Griffith University.

Troy-Anthony Baylis is supported by City of Adelaide.

Ariella Napoli is supported by a City of PAE grant and Helpmann Academy.