Durational Performance by Luna Chan for 2024 Gallery M Contemporary Art Prize

Join us as Luna Chan, winner of the Ian Wilding Emerging Artist Prize in the 2024 Gallery M Contemporary Art Prize completes her durational performance, I make coffee every day. 

2024 Gallery M Contemporary Art Prize
Now in it's 8th year, the Gallery M Contemporary Art Prize aims to give opportunity to some of the best South Australian contemporary artists. This year's prizes are valued over $9 000, all thanks to the generous support of our sponsors; Jarrah J. Holmes, of Century 21 Bayside Brighton, Red House Group Inc., Gibson & Partners Accountants, Atkins Lab, Ana Koch Photography, Patritti Wine, Posy & Flute Flower & Gift Bar, Studio Veld, Warradale Hotel, Splashout Art Studios, Centreprint & Bunnings Warehouse.

Artist Statement
2390 days ago, I visited Costa Rica and started drinking pour-over coffee. 
1666 days ago, during COVID-19 lock down, I started making pour-over coffee every morning. 
766 days ago, I lived in Hong Kong and made coffee. 
764 days ago, I arrived in Adelaide and made coffee. 
Today, I make coffee here. 

Coffee-making has become a daily presence-making ritual for me. The seemingly ordinary everyday routine has revealed to be inherently beautiful and meaningful, where I exist in a different time and space … however fleeting. 

If you encounter me making coffee, I aspire for you to also experience this revelation — of a horizon where we are beings, being-in-the-world. 

The Process

• The process will take around 4 minutes. 
• It will be silence. Participants shall make themselves comfortable and relax, standing or sitting (if there is a bench or seats available), breath, see, listen and smell. 
• Participants can move around to see, listen or smell at a different angle. 

Artist Sharing

• Depending on audient’s response, the sharing session may take 10-15 minutes. 
• Coffee can be served during the sharing session if participants wish to have a small cup of coffee. I will bring glasses with me. 

• I make coffee every morning and now we are sharing the moment together. 
• I consider the filter paper as an archive of this very moment, that “history” is being created together during this process and it is recorded on the filter papers.  
• Previously, audients shared their experience of making coffee or having coffee with family members, and how they felt about the durational performance.