'Push / Pull' – ‘The Working Day’

Artist Luna Chan revisits Adelaide’s post-object art history in this public performance at ART POD.

Responding to Tony Kirkman’s The Working Week (1974), Chan reimagines the work through a contemporary lens – focusing on the ethics, rituals and emotional labour of domestic work. Across the morning, she’ll perform a series of quiet, care-based tasks inside the glass-walled ART POD, drawing attention to the often unseen rhythms of maintenance and everyday life.

Presented as part of She Also Performs – a project exploring feminist perspectives in the ACE archive.

Support

Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE) is supported by Create SA and Creative Australia.
Push / Pull is supported by City of Adelaide, and History Trust of South Australia. Shan Michaels is
supported by Arts Queensland.
Special thanks to project partners the South Australian School and Services for the Visually Impaired,
and The Mercury.

Image: Luna Chan (2025), 'The Working Day'.
Image alt text: A double exposure image showing a person indoors adjusting a large checkered fabric, overlaid with the reflections of modern apartment buildings in a glass window. Luna Chan's face, partially obscured by the reflections, appears thoughtful and focused. The composition blends interior and exterior spaces, creating a layered urban scene.