- Installation
Pigeonhole Portal
delia is a crone, a snag, a philosopher who travel-hops using various forms of ‘carry-all’ bags.
We first crossed paths in London, on a hot summer’s day, as I walked past a “Do Not Walk” sign staked into the lush lawn of a church.
delia was asleep on the soft-soft grass, her serpent scarf coiled around the “Do Not Walk”sign. With every snore, skeletons floated from behind the shrubbery surrounding the church.
With humour and wild-storied gravitas, delia and I disrupt socio-political systems that try to erase us—as furies, as crones.
Our animations include:
- Keep Off the Grass (2015)
- Knitting the TATE Gallery (2015)
- Ping pong rules (2015)
- I write the algorithm (2015)
Pigeonhole Portal gallery installation
Pigeonhole Portal
Exhibited as part of Stick Mob’s Portals exhibition at Watch This Space Gallery, Mparntwe-Alice Springs.
See Pigeonhole Portal, a poem read out at exhibition opening.
In the world of Stick Mob, portals are not ‘merely’ physical gateways or representations of thresholds. They are dynamic, material entities—sites where reality is continually remade through the specificities of place, story, and relations. Specifically, for Stick Mob, portals are a mix of cultural, quantum, sci-fi, and everyday material stories that open up time, space and matter as inseparable to each other.
In these extra-ordinary zones, identities shift, time is non-linear, and matter is far from inert—refusing to sit still, awaiting correction or classification.
Pigeonhole Portal is a gathering of animate and inanimate entities, summoned by myself and delia to requestion organisational clarity and effect as information is passed and shaped through pigeon holes.
This work is inspired by Victoria Alondra’s poem Nobody’s performance, subterranean conversations with Craig San Roque, the collaborative act of writing and illustrating with Stick Mob, daily walks along the Antulye ridges—in the company of Country, ancestors, delia, and Racy the dog.
With deepest thanks to Mark, who believes beyond measure, and to Robyn Ellis—the finest carpenter, friend, and exhibition installer one could wish for.
‘Pigeonhole Portal’, exhibited as part of Stick Mob’s ‘Portals’ exhibition at Watch This Space Gallery, Mparntwe-Alice Springs.
Sound track compiled by Stick Mob and Vito Lucarelli.
Photography by Silvia Storchi and Ivan Trigo. ‘Pigeonhole Portal’ film by Silvia Storchi.
‘Portals’ exhibition was made possible through the support of Red Hot Arts (RHA) Project Seed. The exhibition was presented at the Desert Festival and as a satellite event of the Desert Mob Festival.
