Input/Output

Mark Valenzuela, Miles Dunne and Alycia Bennett present a large-scale installation combining electronic composition, a lighting state, performance and experimental ceramics.

Input/Output centres on a large-scale steel structure fitted with ceramic objects, thread, fabric, and found objects created by Valenzuela and installed in the front gallery space at ACE. The work draws on several structures commonly used in the Philippines, combining the street stall, sari-sari (assorted goods) store, kariton, and paipitan (a cage used for transporting livestock), through which Valenzuela explores ideas around connection and isolation. Bennett and Dunne will collaborate with Valenzuela to extend these ideas through the incorporation of light and sound. 

About the artists:
Mark Valenzuela is a Filipino-Australian artist whose expanded ceramic practice spans over 20 years and crosses mediums including painting, sculpture, video, and street art. Sensitive to space, his work explores themes of conflict, occupation, and resistance, shaped by his upbringing on military bases in the southern Philippines. A past recipient of the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Thirteen Artists Award, Valenzuela has exhibited in the Adelaide Biennial, Jakarta Contemporary Ceramics Biennale, and the Australian Ceramics Triennale. He was the 2022 SALA Feature Artist and monograph recipient, and in 2025, presents new work at ACE as the Porter Street Commission artist.

Miles Dunne is an emerging multidisciplinary artist working across digital media, sculpture, installation, and performance. His practice explores the intersection of technology and physical space, using light, sound, and industrial materials to reflect on themes like environmental degradation, war, and displacement. Influenced by science fiction and dystopian futures, Dunne reimagines technology's role in shaping nature and society, drawing on brutalist forms and urban decay to inform his sculptural language.

Alycia Bennett is a multi-disciplinary artist based on Kaurna Land. Their works span across social practice, relational performance, tapestries, installation, sculpture, video and sound. Bennett’s practice investigates ideas surrounding commodification of bodies, surveillance, public and private space, and re-distribution of class and power. Their practice is informed by ideas of autonomy, self-sustaining communities and non-institutional learning. Bennett has exhibited locally and internationally at Guildhouse ARTWORKS, Art Informal (Philippines), Sister Gallery, Holy Rollers, FELTSpace and more.

Image: Tabi-tabi Po, steel, ceramic, thread, sound, and light installation and performance, 2024, Alycia Bennett, Miles Dunne, Mark Valenzuela. Performed by Alycia Bennett, Florian Cinco, Tating Distroso, and Mark Valenzuela, The Lab, Tarntanya/Adelaide.

Support:

The performance program is supported by City of Adelaide.