Justin Shoulder and Bhenji Ra will reimagine their characters from traditional mythology and folklore for the last time during APT8 Live this closing weekend of APT8 at GOMA from 12pm Saturday 9 Apr and at QAG from 12pm Sunday 10 Apr 2016. Justin Shoulder works in live performance, photography and video and is particularly known…
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Throughout ‘The 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art‘ (APT8) the Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) and Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) will be animated by APT8 Live, an ongoing program of artist performances and projects that takes art off the four walls of the Gallery. The first ever APT Live is a collaboration between the…
In the past two-and-a-half years, Justin Shoulder and Bhenji Ra have collaborated on performances and video, as well as club-based event production under the moniker of ‘Club Ate’, working with queer people of colour. Justin Shoulder and Bhenji Ra are collaborators from Sydney, brought together by a shared cultural lineage within Australia’s Filipino diaspora. Shoulder…