Talk by Archie Barry
- Archie Barry
Join us for a talk by our current artist-in-residence Archie Barry to learn more about their practice.
About the Artist
Archie Barry is a visual artist based in Melbourne, Australia, who works primarily with video, performance, and music composition. They are drawn to time-based mediums to induce moments of affective intensity, drawing from lived experiences of loss, near death, and a politics of trans liberation. Attuned to histories of knowledge making and connection that do not easily map onto the “seen” or the rational, Barry’s practice questions dominant representations of selfhood as singular, stable, legible, and sequential. Their works have been exhibited widely in Australia, including at The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Samstag Museum of Art, The National Gallery of Victoria, Museum of Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Tasmania and Artspace, amongst other spaces.
Acknowledgements
Presented in partnership with Emily Carr University of Art + Design with support from the Audain Foundation.
Western Front is a non-profit artist-run centre in Vancouver.
We acknowledge the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations as traditional owners of the land upon which Western Front stands.