Timothy Tate’s first Brisbane solo show — ‘Disrupted Materiality’ — is currently on at KEPK, a great gallery at Yerongpilly nestled between artists’ studios and a bubbling aquarium. The exhibition brings together various works in which Tim repurposes outdated electronics to offer a dialogue between our analogue past and digital present. In concert, the four major works in ‘Disrupted Materiality’ invite the visitor to reconsider everyday objects (or objects that were recently — and briefly — everyday) and prompt reflection on the lifecycle of technology and how we perceive the material world. Here, TVs, surveillance feeds, video games, discmans, Super-8 projectors and reel-to-reel recorders explore feedback as a generative process, looping the visitor’s experience back on them to uncanny effect.
This exhibition includes a new iteration of Static mediations, an installation that invites the viewer to participate in their own surveillance. It begins with an interactive terminal where their choices impact the work, generating a personalised poem alongside various media that observe, interpret and negotiate the visitors’ presence. Is this space an ecosystem, a friendly interlocutor or a panopticon? (I contributed the text-adventure component of Static mediations, itself an iteration of ‘Meditation on the Body‘.)
‘Disrupted Materiality’ is on until 17 March 2024 (10am – 3pm) at KEPK Space, Station Road Creative Precinct, Yeerongpilly.
Zenobia Frost 