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Agent Bodies questions the various ways that contemporary creative practices engage with themes of human agency, performance, identity, and the body. This exhibition…
Agent Bodies: Body Melt
RMIT Gallery’s current exhibition Agent Bodies questions the various ways that contemporary creative practices engage with human agency, performance, identity, and the body.
In this Art and Design Salon, join Agent Bodies curators, Mikala Dwyer and Drew Pettifer, for a screening of Philip Brophy‘s 1993 Australian satirical horror Body Melt.
The feature will be supported with two exclusive artwork screenings by RMIT PhD candidates Mig Dann and Daniel R. Marks. Each video work ponders the permeability of bodies, trauma and the corporeal excess, reflecting on various states of bodily integrity as explored in RMIT Gallery’s current exhibition Agent Bodies.
As Andrew Peirce reflects on Body Melt, these considerations have taken on renewed relevance in the contemporary moment:
“Philip Brophy’s Body Melt is easily the most gloriously gruesome, maddeningly moist, furiously filthy, and despicably disgusting Australian film ever. When you title your film Body Melt, well, you better deliver some melted bodies, and sure enough, Brophy doesn’t disappoint. With Covid-19 currently wreaking havoc on the world, this is film that’ll ratchet your germ-phobic anxieties to eleven and will have you reaching for that handwash immediately. Spew, spit, collapsing bodies, blood, guts, a Daddo brother, and pulsing eyeballs, all mix up together in a blender to make this an excellent pink-tinged-horror-smoothie of a film that’ll leave your stomach doing backflips.” thecurb.com.au
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Image: Body Melt (1993), courtesy Umbrella Entertainment