As after construction comes lived experience, how does our movement through architecture affect our understanding of the world? This concise group exhibition explores the way our experiences of the social, spatial and temporal present is influenced by the structures we move through.

Effect in three movements views architecture as material. Working across Australia and the United States, Zoë Croggon, Helen Grogan and Georgia Saxelby share an understanding of choreography and the performative; they see space as a practiced place, where bodily and psychological encounters with constructed environments can shape our way of being. Through moving image, collage, installation and performance they draw upon the affective power of form, enacting and occupying architectures that were once someone else’s, but are now ours. Three distinct movements within one exhibition, together these works reveal the political, gendered and directed nature of the spaces we inhabit and the ways in which we might respond to or resist them.

2020 Adelaide//International catalogue with essays by Robert Cook, Ross Gibson, Rachel Hurst, Gillian Brown and Andy Butler.

Listen to an audiodescription of Zoë Croggon's work.
Listen to an audiodescription of Georgia Saxelby's work.