Release Cycle: Jen Valender

For the 9th iteration of Release Cycle, we are delighted to present Fieldwork a screening of moving image works by Jen Valender. 

Part installation and part fable, the artist will be accompanied by the Acerbic Tong Troupe to perform discourse scripted by a collective of emerging art critics, aged five and six. Through moving image, Valender frames contemporary art as a navigational tool to explore the harmony and discord between practices of life and death. For this screening, she will present an interplay between living and processed art materials, endurance performance and the role of the sacrificed animal. Audiences can expect to witness relational paradoxes, moral conflicts and ethical binds informed by mothering, cross-species feminism and farm life-work-art experiences.

• Time: Doors open and drinks start from 6:30pm; screening from 7pm.
• Prices: $10 waged /$5 unwaged / $5 Blaktix / FREE - no one turned away for lack of funds.
• Seating allocations will be on a ‘first-come, first-served' basis and capacity is limited.

The Release Cycle programme stems from an interest in creating a dynamic and responsive context for the presentation of artists' moving image works being made now. Release Cycle offers artists from across Australia the opportunity to present their work along with discursive and performative elements at Composite's screening space at Collingwood Yards each month.

Accessibility Requirements

All screenings in this program are captioned however if you have any other accessibility requirements please let us know.

Wheelchair Accessibility

Composite is wheelchair accessible via the main carriageway ramp from Johnston Street as well as elevator access to the UG floor via the 'art deco' entrance midway down the Johnston Street facade and also via the rear entrance beside the Keith Haring mural, which has a ramp and leads to the elevator.

Gender Neutral Bathrooms

Composite has all gender-neutral bathrooms.

Accessible Parking/Dropoff Areas

If you are coming by car, there is accessible drop-off and pick up space at the side of the building beside the Keith Haring mural. There are also accessible parking located in the carpark at the rear of our venue.

Public Transport

Composite at Collingwood Yards is close to Stop 19 at the corner of Smith Street/Johnston Street on the 86 tram line. Only some Trams on this route are serviced by a mix of low floor and high floor trams. Read more at the PTV site here. The number 200 and 207 Bus' also stop directly over the road from Collingwood Yards.

Guide Dogs/Service Dogs

Guide dogs and service dogs are welcome at Composite.

Image credit: Abilities/instincts, film still, 2022, photo by Gene Alberts.