Orifice Oriented Ontologies (000) is an experimental performance program featuring Archie Barry, Virginia Barratt, Allison Gibbs and Sage Pbbbt, in response to Frances Barrett’s exhibition 'Meatus' at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.

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The mouth’s multiple functions materially and socially link us to others; speaking, singing, eating, fucking, vomiting. An earhole is an open meatus into the body, through which sonic subjectivities are digested and recomposed. Sound and vibration leak in and out from all orifices, connecting and entangling in the folds of bodies, disturbing those boundaries.

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Resonant with sound as touch and sensation which re-orients the body and its multiple haptic and post-human relations. Inverting the Object Oriented Ontology framework to focus on fleshy void spaces, rather than materialist objects, we move with queer dis/embodiements; worm as method, digestion and intimacy, haptic force of the guttural. With these artists, we invoke multiple readings of OOO; ghostly howling voices, out of office, calling triple 0 of emergency, dot dot dots of texts silence, unholy trinity of voids, moaning percussion of pleasure or pain, language spills of the somatic . . . Through lubricating the transformative agency and multiple potentials of the orifice, we open into a wet and glistening tract, noisy plural passages, cyclical dissolution of the self.

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Alongside these performances, an OOO digital collection will be published in Liquid Architecture’s journal Disclaimer with works from the performing artists alongside Ander Rennick, Ivan Cheng, Jared Davis and Frances Barrett, further chews and stretches our bodily communications.

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