Alex Martinis Roe at The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne / Bibiliothekswohnung, Berlin

Alex Martinis Roe

Alex Martinis Roe’s series Genealogies; Frameworks for Exchange – first developed for her show at Pallas Projects – is to feature in the exhibition ‘Post-planning’ at The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, and concurrently for the solo exhibition Collective Biographies at Bibiliothekswohnung, Berlin. The works attend to Martinis Roe’s concerns with the performative efficacy of art and facilitating feminist relations both within the art encounter and its historicization. Her assertion that the effect of conventional spatio-temporal orientations between not only speakers and listeners, but also writers and readers/artworks and audiences is in need of analysis is informed by textual and personal encounters with Belgian feminist philosopher and psychoanalyst Luce Irigaray.

Curated by Bala Starr, ‘Post-planning’ refers to the unplannable, to doing away with preconceived ideas and starting something before you know where it finishes. The term comes from architecture and urbanism, but has more recently been used as an idea within curatorial practice. Hybrid terms like this suggest a way of crossing between disciplines, between straight lines.

Collective Biographies, curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers, presents works from her recent projects including Genealogies; Frameworks for Exchange (2011 and ongoing), which looks at female authorial genealogies and ways to reimagine the future of feminism by acknowledging and engaging with its history. One part of this project has been to facilitate conversations between different generations of female, feminist and feminine cultural producers.

The Ian Potter Museum of Art
Anna-Catharina Gebbers | Bibliothekswohnung