The work examines language’s adaptability, diversity, and ability in shaping our approach to social and physical environments. Through language, we engage with the world around us, igniting and supporting connections to family, culture, and site. In spoken word, sign, and song, participants reflect on their experiences of how language functions and continues to unfold within their contexts.
Social Networks
4—19th July 11—4 pm
Mon/Tues by appointment | email lina-buck@hotmail.com to arrange
Opening Event 4th July, 2—4 pm
Participants: Luke King, Isabel Trufas, Alexander Jordania, Pranav Walimbe, Anni Hagberg, Jing Liang, Mariana Carolina and Lina Buck
Video: Aaron Claringbold
Sound editor: Milo Fisher
Lina Buck is a first-generation Australian German multidisciplinary artist living and working on Wurundjeri Land. Her practice explores the fast-paced transitional qualities of the present. Addressing both a personal and societal requisite for development, a state of impermanence, progression, and the vulnerability of change. Lina is interested in the factors that shape how, what, and why we experience, both socially and physically. She utilises elements of performance to unpack and develop film, photographic, sound and installation works. Embedding methods of spatial measurement and the dynamics of relational or ‘bodily’ experience. With meanings, ideas and contexts continually shifting, Lina seeks to uncover a lasting approach: to create work that utilises the temporality of actions and to reflect on contemporaneity as a state of becoming, where actuality and authenticity form within the transitory.
Lina has exhibited locally, interstate and internationally, with her most notable deliverables include Many Movements are One, the Cardinia Cultural Centre (2024-25); William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize (finalist exhibition), the Museum of Contemporary Photography (2024); COmmunicate (workshop), Counihan Gallery x Bus Projects (2024); It Isn’t Always, Always (solo), the Multi-Arts Pavilion Mima (2024); the Pilotenkueche International Art Program, Leipzig, Germany (residency) (2023); The Sun’s Kiss Begins to Sting (solo), Bundoora Homestead Art Centre (2022-23); and The RAMSAY Art Prize (finalist exhibition), the Art Gallery of South Australia (2019); Artist-in-residence, the Centre for Projection Art (2021).
