GALLERY ONE | SARAH WALKER
TARGET PRACTICE
FRI 28 OCT 9.00AM - WEDS 23 NOV 5.00PM
OPENING EVENT 29 OCT, 4.00-6.00PM
FREE TO ATTEND
INCLUDES A LIVE PERFORMANCE & ARCHERY
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Monday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Tuesday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Wednesday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Thursday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Saturday closed
Sunday closed
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Platform Arts is wheelchair-accessible via our Gheringhap St entrance. Unlocked, accessible bathrooms are available on both ground and first floors.
For accessibility enquiries, please directly contact us at hello@platformarts.org.au
Please note, Platform Arts is a dry venue.
Sarah Walker needs a plan. The world is falling apart, and she's not going to go down with it. All she has to do is pack. And learn to light a fire. And push away everyone who loves her. Easy.
Target Practice explores future fear and apocalyptic anxieties through the framework of ‘prepper’ culture. Sarah Walker uses humour and absurdity to think through what disaster looks like in an age of unprecedented atomisation and consumerism. Using archery (the preferred defence technique of survivalists) as a framework, Target Practice considers ideas around safety and chaos, and what it means to try to be a hunter, when really, you’re more likely to end up as prey.
In the style of vlogger culture, one woman prepares for the end times, filming herself all the while. A mess of handmade targets in a makeshift shooting range demonstrate the violence hiding in our language. Anything you can’t carry, you’ll have to leave. But what if you can’t carry yourself? Through video, works on paper and performance, Target Practice pokes at the wobbly edges of culture and the flimsiness of human security, and asks what is really needed when shit hits the fan.
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Sarah Walker is a Djilang/Geelong-based artist and writer. She uses comedy, narrative and speculative fiction to create surprising encounters with tensions around death, disaster and catastrophe. She works particularly with immersive binaural sound works, video and text-based installation. She was a finalist in the 2019 international MTV RE:DEFINE award and the 45downstairs Emerging Artist Award, and has taken part in residencies across Australia and Asia. Recent works have included solo commissions for Geelong Gallery and City of Moreland, and collaborations for the NGV, The Unconformity Festival, Chamber Made + Experimenta and Triage Live Art Collective. She is one third of research collective The Contemporary. She has an MFA from RMIT.
