Group Therapy Sydney photo documentation and Artlink essay
The second iteration of the exhibition Group Therapy: Mental Distress in a Digital Age has just closed at UNSW Galleries in Sydney. Presented as part of The Big Anxiety: festival of arts + science + people, this version reshaped the exhibition I originally co-curated with FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) in the UK in 2015.
To celebrate the launch of the exhibition, the Asia-Pacific contemporary arts magazine Artlink commissioned me to write this article on three of the works from the show. The Double Bind Effect: Art and Anxiety in a Digital Age explores digital technologies as the cause of — but also the cure for — mental distress, through the works of Erica Scourti, Katriona Beales and Institute for New Feeling.
Here are a small selection of images of the works:
Artists
Katriona Beales (UK)
Richard Bell (Australia)
Dora García (Spain)
Institute for New Feeling (USA)
George Khut (Australia)
Gretta Louw (Germany/Australia)
Melanie Manchot (UK)
Miyarrka Media (Australia)
Lauren Moffatt (Germany/Australia)
Jennifer Kanary Nikolov(a) (Netherlands)
Kate Owens and Neeta Madahar (UK)
Erica Scourti (UK/Greece)
Superflex (Denmark)
Bonney Djuric, Lily Hibberd and Jenny McNally, members of the Parramatta Female Factory Precinct Memory Project (Australia)
More images of the exhibition can be downloaded here Group_Therapy_UNSW_Galleries_Sept_17