can you hear me?
can you hear me? is a sculptural installation and deep-sea opera by Saar Amptmeijer. The work explores the internet’s physical and power-laden infrastructure – one that runs on the bottom of the ocean floor as a huge network of submarine tubes and cables, following currents of an embodied and obfuscated history.
Saar translates this hidden world into a constellation of ceramic, metal, PVC and found-object sculptures, their forms imagining deep sea and digital infrastructure, fragments of a network usually unseen. From the installation drifts an operatic monodrama that weaves together undersea mysteries, snippets of messages and observations on power, connection and imagination itself.
In bringing these invisible systems into material and sonic form, can you hear me reflects on the complexity of imagination – and asks how fantasy can carry us beyond the internet as a site of control, and towards the sanctuary it was once envisioned to be.
Date and Time
Opening event:
Fri 14 Nov, 5-7pm
15-30 Nov
3-7pm (THURS-SAT)
11am-3pm (SUn)
Location
Current Gallery,
NAVAL STORE
Entry
Free
Image Credit
Photo: courtesy the artist
Saar Amptmeijer is an artist working across sound, sculpture, installation and writing. Drawn equally to concepts and materials, their practice follows a kind of magpie logic, forever in awe of the shiny wonder world of material and conceptual exploration. Saar is interested in hidden structures and networks that shape our realities, currently researching the very physical realities of our digital lives.
Originally from the Netherlands, Saar graduated from the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht and has exhibited at institutions such as the Centraal Museum Utrecht and W139 in Amsterdam and many DIY and non-institutions both in the Netherlands and ‘Australia’. In 2012, they moved to Naarm/Melbourne, and later lived and worked in Mparntwe/Alice Springs, where they supported artists and their making at Bindi and as Director of Watch This Space.
Saar has released experimental albums independently and in collaboration, and has worked with dancers, musicians, and other comrades across disciplines. They see art as a vehicle of change, connection and beauty as a way to imagine and experience the radical potential of our world. They are currently based on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja, working from their studio at Fremantle Arts Centre.
Manjaree (Bathers Beach) Precinct
Bathers Beach,
Fremantle
Event Information:
This event is held indoors and undercover.
The exhibition can be entered at any time during opening hours.
Food and beverages will not be available at this event.
Current is a small free standing building part of the The Naval Store, which is located at: 141 Queen Victoria St, Walyalup.
Public Transport:
When possible, we encourage you to catch public transport, there is a bus stop located right out the front on Queen Victoria St (Stop ID: 10280).
Parking:
Vehicle parking is located on Tuckfield St, and Beach St.
Current is a small gallery to the right side of the Naval Store. There are two ACROD parking bays located on Tuckfield St, there is a ramp access from this parking to the gallery entrance on Canning Hwy. Accessible toilets are located inside the Naval Store building.
