Debris Facility, CVIC-LEVEL (detail), 2022, plaster, cyanotype, chainmail, steel, perfume, lasers.
Debris Facility, Knot Locked, 2023, installation view. Photo by Gianna Rizzo.
Debris Facility, Knot Locked, 2023, installation view. Photo by Gianna Rizzo.
Debris Facility, Knot Locked, 2023, installation view. Photo by Gianna Rizzo.
Debris Facility, Knot Locked, 2023, installation view. Photo by Gianna Rizzo.
Debris Facility, Knot Locked, 2023, installation view. Photo by Gianna Rizzo.
Debris Facility, Knot Locked, 2023, installation view. Photo by Gianna Rizzo.
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Knot Locked: Debris Facility

3 February 2023 - 23 April 2023

Curator:

Artist(s): Debris Facility

Location: The Atrium

Knot Locked is an installation entangling the processes and history of waste management (within the Debris Facility and at the site of Incinerator Gallery) with 'knit lock' bricks as designed by Marion Mahoney and Walter Burley Griffin, the architects of the Essendon Incinerator. Debris Facility draws from queer architectural theory alongside industrial waste research to make installation, sculpture, and print works. For this exhibition, Debris Facility works with Incinerator Gallery for its historical contours of occult modernist architecture, and disused waste infrastructure, turned into cultural asset. These elements resonate strongly with the agenda of the Debris Facility, which looks towards practices of im/material waste, aesthetics and spatial practices of industry, and ways in which cultural production works within and beyond those categories.

Debris Facility (them/all) is a Naarm-based, queer body corporate foundead in 2015. As an artistic/corporate entity whose activities often parody and parasite processes of neoliberal identity construction and industrial commodification, they produce wearable works, installations, interventions, design and performances which respond to specific contexts and coworkers. They extend their pedagogical work through contracts with Liquid Architecture and Victorian College of the Arts. They have exhibited and produced works in local, national and international contexts, in galleries, performance spaces, publications and others. Their work is held in numerous private collections and landfill.

The opening night will be held on Friday, 3 February, 6 - 8pm at Incinerator Gallery alongside exhibitions Infinite Pleasures and The Sentimentality of Something Unseen: J Davies.

Transfer Station Knot Locked Debris Facility Pty Ltd

Saturday 22 April, 1-3pm

Screening time 2pm
Free event.

Closing their exhibition Knot Locked, Debris Facility Pty Ltd will launch the video Transfer Station (2023) filmed at Incinerator Gallery and performed with Daniel R. Marks.

This new video work will be screened alongside Nicholas Mangan's Some Kind of Duration (2013), with both videos working with archives of incinerators.

Also launching will be a limited-edition printed publication that extends the scope of the exhibition Knot Locked, with documentation, graphics, interview, and other text and research materials.

Join us at Incinerator Gallery to celebrate these new works, and your last chance to view the exhibition, with some light refreshments served.