An earhole is an open meatus into the body, through which sonic subjectivities are digested and recomposed. Sound and vibration leak in and out from all orifices, connecting and entangling in the folds of bodies, disturbing those boundaries.

Today on the podcast Archie Barry and V Barratt join Frances Barrett and Debris Facility for a conversation that dissects their performances for Orifice Oriented Ontologies, a performance program for 'Meatus’ at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.

Orifice Oriented Ontologies focuses on fleshy void spaces, rather than materialist objects, moving with queer dis/embodiements; worm as method, digestion and intimacy; and a haptic force of the guttural. The performances respond to the conceptual and spatial prompts in France Barrett’s exhibition Meatus

An Orifice Oriented Ontologies digital collection – Worm (w)hole:

Orifice Oriented Ontologies – is published in Liquid Architecture’s online journal Disclaimer with works from the performing artists Sage Pbbt, Allison Gibbs, Archie Barry and V Barrett alongside Ander Rennick, Ivan Cheng, Jared Davis and Frances Barrett: https://disclaimer.org.au/contents/orifice-oriented-ontologies

https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/events/orifice-oriented-ontologies

Orifice Oriented Ontologies

21 May 2022

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Naarm

Presented by Liquid Architecture, ACCA and City of Melbourne

Image: Keelan O'Hehir

Produced by Mara Schwerdtfeger.

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For the past 20 years, Liquid Architecture has been Australia’s leading organisation for artists working with sound and listening. LA investigates the sounds themselves, but also the ideas communicated about, and the meaning of, sound and listening.