'Push / Pull' – ‘The Working Day’
Artist Luna Chan revisits Adelaide’s post-object art history in this public performance at ART POD.
ART POD
23 May 2025
8:00am to 10:00am
Responding to Tony Kirkman’s The Working Week (1974), Chan reimagines the work through a contemporary lens – focusing on the ethics, rituals and emotional labour of domestic work. Across the morning, she’ll perform a series of quiet, care-based tasks inside the glass-walled ART POD, drawing attention to the often unseen rhythms of maintenance and everyday life.
Presented as part of She Also Performs – a project exploring feminist perspectives in the ACE archive.
Feature Image: Luna Chan (2025), 'The Working Day'.
Artists
Curator
Artist
The Working Day – Luna Chan
What is the everyday…
By walking, my body paves a shadow on the ground.
By sweeping, I experience the surface and edges of the floor, cleaning and caring for a lifelong partner who untiredly sustains my weight.
By wiping the window, dust is removed to shorten my distance with the sun and the rain, the cityscape and the stars.
By caring for myself and caring for the things that care for me, the floor, the window, the clothes, the dishes, the body and the soul, I exist.
This is the everyday, my work every day.
一天的工作
什麼是每一天
行走,走着走着,身軀在地上投下一道陰影
打掃,掃着掃着,觸踫地的斑駁與邊緣,體察她年月承受的勞累
抹塵,抹着抹着,抹去與太陽、雨水、城市和星辰的距離
存在而照顧自己,照顧身旁的種種:地板、窗戶、衣物、碗碟、靈魂,肉體
—— 這便是每一天,我的工作。
About the Exhibition
Featuring a program of live, experiential, post-object and otherwise ‘non-haveable’ art encounters, and unpacking Adelaide’s leading role as the historical world centre of post-object art today, Push / Pull asks: What kinds of encounters are possible, when the shock of the new is a local tradition?
Support
Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE) is supported by Create SA and Creative Australia.
This project is supported by City of Adelaide and History Trust of South Australia. Shan Michaels is supported by Arts Queensland.
Special thanks to project partners the South Australian School and Services for the Visually Impaired, and The Mercury.

