‘Push / Pull’ – Access Tour

Gallery Tour
14 June 2025
Candy pink stuffed textile chains stretch against a black metal grid background.
Candy pink stuffed textile chains stretch against a black metal grid background.

Join us for an access-led tour of Push / Pull – a program of live, experiential, and post-object art encounters.

When

Adelaide Contemporary Experimental

14 June 2025

2:00pm to 3:00pm

Access

This relaxed, inclusive tour will be delivered in plain language. Audio description and Auslan interpretation are available on request — please RSVP with your access needs so we can arrange appropriate support. The tour is suitable for neurodivergent visitors, and families, and support workers and Guide Dogs are welcome.

Feature Image: Shan Michaels' studio (2025), detail, Adelaide Contemporary Experimental. Photography by Sam Roberts.

Artists

Antony Abbracciavento,
Elyas Alavi,
Emiko Artemis,
Stephen Atkinson,
Troy-Anthony Baylis,
Alycia Bennett,
Jingwei Bu,
Patrick William Carter,
Luna Chan,
Allison Chhorn,
Amber Cronin,
Dylan Crismani,
Eleen Deprez,
Stephanie Doddridge,
Adam-Troy Francis,
Paul Gazzola,
Alex Grant,
Sasha Grbich,
Dominic Guerrera,
Ray Harris,
Aidan Hughes,
Matt Huppatz,
Heidi Kenyon,
Kirsty Martinsen,
Monte Masi,
VNS Matrix,
Shan Michaels,
Ariella Napoli,
Alexandra Nitschke,
Chris Reid,
Yasemin Sabuncu,
Fiona Salmon,
Cynthia Schwertsik,
Gabriella Smart,
Soundstream,
Trudy Tandberg,
Sione Teumohenga,
Sarah Tickle,
Henry Wolff,
Shirley Wu,
Robert Wyatt,
Jake Yang,
Yasser Yassin,
Shenshen Zheng,
Students from South Australian School for the Visually Impaired

Curators

Henry Wolff,
Danni Zuvela
Related Exhibition
Push / Pull
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‘Push / Pull’ – Opening Night
'Push / Pull' – Artist Yarns and Braille Bombing
'Push / Pull' – Blind Community Day
'Push / Pull' – ‘The Working Day’
Deeply Hanging Out – Day 1: Workshop
Deeply Hanging Out – Day 2: Performance
Deeply Hanging Out – Day 2: Screen Program
'Push / Pull' – She Also Performs
'Push / Pull' – Can Touch This
‘Push / Pull’ – Nature as Collaborator + Plant Swap

3 May to 28 June 2025

Push / Pull is a program of live, experiential, post-object and otherwise “non-haveable” art, including tactile installation, short and durational performance works, lecture performance, re-enactments and responses to the archive, video, poetry, plants, food, voice, experimental sound and music.  

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2 May to 2 May 2025

Celebrate the opening night of Push / Pull.

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3 May to 3 May 2025

Join us for an afternoon of conversation, sound and spontaneous public art-making, centred around Can Touch This – a tactile installation designed with and for the blind and visually impaired (BVI) community.

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8 May to 8 May 2025

ACE warmly invites members of the blind and visually impaired (BVI) community to explore Shan Michaels’ Can Touch This – a tactile installation co-created with and for the BVI community in South Australia.

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23 May to 23 May 2025

Artist Luna Chan revisits Adelaide’s post-object art history in this public performance at ART POD.

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23 May to 23 May 2025

Join us for day one of Deeply Hanging Out – a two-day celebration of experimental performance and collaborative live art – unfolding across Adelaide’s public spaces and at ACE. 

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24 May to 24 May 2025

Join us for day two of Deeply Hanging Out – a two-day celebration of experimental performance and collaborative live art – unfolding across Adelaide’s public spaces and at ACE.

See Public Program

24 May to 24 May 2025

Join us for the Screen Program – part of Day 2 of Deeply Hanging Out, a two-day celebration of experimental performance and collaborative live art unfolding across Adelaide’s public spaces and at ACE.

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2 May to 24 May 2025

She Also Performs is a performance project that revisits and reimagines feminist histories of live art from the ACE archive.

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2 May to 28 June 2025

Can Touch This is a tactile installation designed with and for the blind and visually impaired (BVI) community in South Australia.

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14 June to 14 June 2025

Join us for an afternoon of artist talks, green-thinking and community connection, exploring how artists collaborate with plants, landscapes and more-than-human worlds.

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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.

ACErlu tampinthi, ngadlu Kaurna yartangka inparrinthi. Kaurna miyurna yaitya yarta-mathanya Wama Tarntanyaku. Parnaku yailtya, parnaku tapa purruna, parnaku yarta ngadlurlu tampinthi. Yalaka Kaurna miyurna itu yailtya, tapa purruna, yarta kuma puru martinthi, puru warri-apinthi, puru tangka martulayinthi. Ngadlurlu tampinthi purkana pukinangku, yalaka.

ACE respectfully acknowledges the Kaurna people are the traditional custodians of the Adelaide Plains. We recognise and respect their cultural heritage, beliefs and relationship with the land. We acknowledge that they are of continuing importance to the Kaurna people living today. We acknowledge Elders past and present.

ACErlu tampinthi, ngadlu Kaurna yartangka inparrinthi. Kaurna miyurna yaitya yarta-mathanya Wama Tarntanyaku. Parnaku yailtya, parnaku tapa purruna, parnaku yarta ngadlurlu tampinthi. Yalaka Kaurna miyurna itu yailtya, tapa purruna, yarta kuma puru martinthi, puru warri-apinthi, puru tangka martulayinthi. Ngadlurlu tampinthi purkana pukinangku, yalaka.

ACE respectfully acknowledges the Kaurna people are the traditional custodians of the Adelaide Plains. We recognise and respect their cultural heritage, beliefs and relationship with the land. We acknowledge that they are of continuing importance to the Kaurna people living today. We acknowledge Elders past and present.