You Don’t Need Me To Tell You is a dual channel video installation commissioned by UNSW Galleries and supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW. The work is a call and response between two textile wind instruments that operate as transmission markers in the landscape. Shot on Wodi Wodi land on the south coast of NSW with cinematography by Josh Raymond and sound composed by Laurence Pike.
This project was developed for Pliable Planes: Expanded Textiles & Fibre Practices curated by Karen Hall and Catherine Wooley. The exhibition brings together practitioners who reimagine practices in textiles and fibre art, taking its title from a 1957 essay by Bauhaus artist Anni Albers that sought to rethink the use of weaving through an architectural lens and interpret textiles as fundamentally structural and endlessly mutable.
The exhibition is contextualised by Starting at Zero, a symposium bringing together practitioners and thinkers to explore the vast potentials of fibre and textiles as both material and subject. The program features a keynote presentation from Antonia Syme AM, Director, Australian Tapestry Workshop, alongside a series of conversations with exhibiting artists and guest speakers. A publication featuring curatorial texts alongside newly commissioned writing from Vikki McInnes, Katie Dyer, and Sophia Cai further explores the conceptual and aesthetic possibilities of textiles and fibre practices, positioning the work of the exhibiting artists in a wider dialogue concerning contemporary visual and material culture.
The exhibition is supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and will begin a national tour in 2023 with the support of the Australian Government's Visions of Australia program.