The Substation/​ Marina Rosenfeld/​ Material Issue/

PRESENTED BY THE SUBSTATION AND ROOM40

Marina Rosenfeld’s Material Issue is her first survey exhibition in the Southern Hemisphere and etches out a profoundly individual terrain within which she has mapped and defined a way of being in, and around, sound.

For over 30 years, her hybrid work across media has traced the emergence and expansion of sound as a strategy of relational and social practice, from her experimental orchestras of the 1990s and oughts, to her longstanding engagement with the material culture of turntablism.

The exhibition, surveys works predominately form the past five years, and explores the material implications of her practice, interrogating where new positions might emerge from within performative or staged situations. Material Issue offers an atmosphere of possibility, where sound and its attendant technologies make possible collective action as well as intimate reflection.

Featuring large format video installation, photographic and textile works, the exhibition is a portal into a discreet realm where tactility, materiality and richly embodied sound co-exist with the traces and residues of yesterday’s parties.

Material Issue is curated by Lawrence English.