The Thousands

Humans are forever doing things. Dividing these things into broad categories – ‘work’, ‘travel’, ‘art’, ‘crime’ – strikes me as a little backward. Hence the Festival of Unpopular Culture‘s decision to call their centrepiece collaborative exhibition ‘Human Doings’, after what The Aliens (or robots, or vampires, or the severely autistic, or Gary Numan) might call the events and objects that we so readily categorise and dimiss. The name was actually coined by Adelaide video artist, former FELT and current CACSA cheese Monte Masi, whose powerful art nerd lols are already the stuff of local legend.

For this show, Monte and FUC Artistic Director Rayleen Forester asked four pairs of professional humans (“artists”) to collaborate over a creative response to an idea in the FUC program – covering everything from sex workers’ rights so the sociology of “getting plastered”. Each pair had a small budget and a limited amount of time, but aside from that the only restriction was that it had to be exhibited somewhere in FUC’s fabulously ramshackle FUC HUB, embedded deep in the Death Star-esque bowels of the Adelaide College of the Arts. The first two pairs - Jessie Lumb & Katrina Simmons, Maarten Daudeij & Rory O’Connor (of Steering by Stars, pictured) – will exhibit on Tuesday October 11. Then on Friday the 14th Matt Huppatz and Laura Wills will join the fray, along with Will Cheesman and “video jockeys”, Nick Moss & Dane Hirsinger.

Human Doings! Human Goings! Humans Doing It! Do it, Humans!