Spring/Summer Exhibitions: Mel O’Callaghan: "Pulse of the Planet"

Thursday, April 27th, 2023

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Mel O’Callaghan: Pulse of the Planet

May 27 - August 27, 2023

Co-curated by Peta Rake and Shauna Thompson.

Pulse of the Planet is a major solo exhibition by Paris/Sydney-based artist Mel O’Callaghan that synthesizes several years of collaborations and ways of knowing. For the last twenty years of her practice, O’Callaghan has explored resonant objects, spaces, and tools—namely how they affect, codify, and connect bodies. By working alongside experts in other fields, O’Callaghan seeks to pose new questions through her artistic practice, to highlight the natural synergies between disciplines, as well as to focus attention on how highly curious researchers reciprocally approach complex questions about our more-than-human existence.

The works in this exhibition convene transdisciplinary creative research—from oceanographers, physicists, microbial ecologists, psychologists, and musicologists, among others—that converges around the most urgent problems of our time, including planetary shifts, the viral age, climate futures, interspecies living, and which lifeworlds we must be attentive to and why. Drawing on our innate impulse to connect with one another and to Earth’s inexplicable forces, Pulse of the Planet sees all bodies—human and non-human—as sites of revelation and connection.

Mel O’Callaghan was born in 1975, Sydney, Australia. She lives and works in Paris, France and Sydney, Australia. O’Callaghan’s work explores human behaviour in relation to notions of resistance, endurance, and transformation. Selected solo exhibitions include, Carriageworks, Sydney (2022); University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane (2020); Artspace, Sydney (2019); National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2018); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2017).

Find out more: https://eskerfoundation.com/exhibition/mel-ocallaghan/

In the Project Space

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Upcoming in the Project Space

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PDFs

SpringSummer2023_PulseofthePlanet_PressRelease.pdf

Thursday, May 18th, 2023
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Esker_Brochure_Spring_Summer_2023.pdf

Wednesday, May 24th, 2023
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Web Resolution Images

Mel O'Callaghan, "First Sound, Last Sound" Esker Foundation, 26 May, 2023. Photo by: Elyse Bouvier.
Mel O'Callaghan, "First Sound, Last Sound" Esker Foundation, 26 May, 2023. Photo by: Elyse Bouvier.
Mel O'Callaghan, "First Sound, Last Sound" Esker Foundation, 26 May, 2023. Photo by: Elyse Bouvier.
Mel O’Callaghan, "First sound, last sound (performance)," 2022. Installation view, All is Life, 2022, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia. Photo Zan Wimberley.
Mel O’Callaghan, "First sound, last sound (performance)," 2022. Installation view, All is Life, 2022, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia. Photo Zan Wimberley.
Mel O’Callaghan, First Sound, Last Sound (performance), 2022. Installation view, All is Life, 2022, Carriageworks, Sydney. Photo by: Zan Wimberley.
Image: Mel O’Callaghan, “First sound, last sound” (performance), 2022. Installation view, “All is Life,” Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia. Photo by: Zan Wimberley.
Mel O’Callaghan, "First sound, last sound (performance)," 2022. Installation view, All is Life, 2022, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia. Photo Zan Wimberley.
Image: Mel O’Callaghan, “First sound, last sound” (performance), 2022. Installation view, “All is Life,” Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia. Photo by: Zan Wimberley.
Mel O’Callaghan, "Centre of the Centre," 2019. Installation views. Three-channel HD colour video. Artspace, Sydney. Photos by: Zan Wimberley.
Mel O'Callaghan, "Pulse of the Planet" Esker Foundation, 2023. Photo by: Elyse Bouvier.
Mel O’Callaghan, "Centre of the Centre," 2019. Installation views. Three-channel HD colour video. Artspace, Sydney. Photos by: Zan Wimberley.
Mel O’Callaghan, "Centre of the Centre," 2019. Installation views. Three-channel HD colour video. Artspace, Sydney. Photos by: Zan Wimberley.
Mel O’Callaghan, "To The End,"2007. Video still (detail). Colour digital video with sound.
Mel O’Callaghan, "To The End,"2007. Video still (detail). Colour digital video with sound.
Mel O’Callaghan, "The Fall," 2004. Still, colour video with sound.
Mel O'Callaghan. "Eerie, eerie, esoteric, greenish with the slime of time," 2022. Acrylic paint, pigment on glass.
Mel O'Callaghan, "Ore of Cyrus," 2022. Acrylic paint, pigment on glass.
Mel O’Callaghan, "First sound, last sound (performance)," 2022. Installation view, All is Life, 2022, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia. Photo Zan Wimberley.