- Installation
Pigeonhole Portal
delia is a crone, a snag, a philosopher who travel-hops using various ‘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, skulls floated from behind the shrubbery.
With humour and wild-storied gravitas, delia and I disrupt socio-political systems that try to erase us—as furies, as crones.
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.
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 stories that open up time, space and matter as existing separately to each other.
In these extra-ordinary zones, identities shift, time folds in on itself, and matter is far from inert—refusing to sit quietly, awaiting correction or classification.
Pigeonhole Portal is a gathering of animate and inanimate entities, summoned by delia to question organisational clarity and effect.
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, and 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 hope for.
‘Pigeonhole Portal’, exhibited as part of Stick Mob’s ‘Portals’ exhibition at Watch This Space Gallery, Mparntwe-Alice Springs.
Thanks to Mark who believes beyond measure and Robyn Ellis, the best carpenter, friend and exhibition installer ever.
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.
