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.