Ari Angkasa, TENS (2023), performance documentation, DEMO 1/4: Up late at the Judith Wright Arts Centre, Institute of Modern Art, Meanjin Brisbane, 2025. Photo by Lewis James Bin Doraho
Public Program
Saturday 4 October 2025, 4:00am
Gertrude Contemporary
21-31 High Street, Preston SouthSaturday 4 October, 2pm
Songs about Structure is an afternoon of performances exploring the circulation of sound in bureaucratic environments. Departing from the notion that voices, music and noise are endemic to office spaces, Songs about Structure assembles and dissolves these sonic traces. Ari Angkasa explores the limits of her voice through an abstraction of the microphone performances that have characterised her practice. Jon Campbell scrambles verse, chorus, verse with guitar and vocals, fragmented to accommodate live readings of the Past Is Prologue publications. Sally Ann McIntyre employs media archeology to conjure aural spectres of an institutional past, bringing Gertrude’s anthology to a closure.
Ari Angkasa is an artist based in Naarm (Melbourne). Her practice experiments with posthuman technologies to envision alternative systems of filmmaking and performance art. Ari is the performance curator at Miscellania and current studio artist resident at West Space. She has exhibited recent work with Soft Centre, Bangkok Kunsthalle, Institute of Modern Art, and Queer East Film Festival London.
Jon Campbell is a prominent visual artist and musician based in Melbourne. Exploring the relationship between art and music he has been exhibiting paintings and playing and recording music since the mid 1980’s. At the core of Jon’s musical output is a DIY attitude that celebrates the joy of collaborating with friends.
Sally Ann McIntyre is a transmission artist and poet, with recent and upcoming solo, collaborative and group exhibitions at Bundoora Homestead Arts Centre, Naarm Melbourne; Blindside, Naarm Melbourne; Fondation d’entreprise Martell, France; and Centre d'innovation et de design au Grand-Hornu, Belgium. She has released experimental sound works on labels Compost and Height (UK) and Flaming Pines (UK). She works as a tertiary educator, currently in Media Studies at Deakin University and Art History at Australian Catholic University.
Jon Campbell is a prominent visual artist and musician based in Melbourne. Exploring the relationship between art and music he has been exhibiting paintings and playing and recording music since the mid 1980’s. At the core of Jon’s musical output is a DIY attitude that celebrates the joy of collaborating with friends.
Sally Ann McIntyre is a transmission artist and poet, with recent and upcoming solo, collaborative and group exhibitions at Bundoora Homestead Arts Centre, Naarm Melbourne; Blindside, Naarm Melbourne; Fondation d’entreprise Martell, France; and Centre d'innovation et de design au Grand-Hornu, Belgium. She has released experimental sound works on labels Compost and Height (UK) and Flaming Pines (UK). She works as a tertiary educator, currently in Media Studies at Deakin University and Art History at Australian Catholic University.
This program is presented as part of Bureaucracy of Feelings, an exhibition curated by Diego Ramírez.
