Lau­ren Brincat

Born Syd­ney, Aus­tralia 1980

Lives and works in Sydney

Using a vari­ety of plat­forms – video instal­la­tion, sculp­ture, per­for­mance and walk­ing scores – Lau­ren Brin­cat explores non-ver­bal modes of expres­sion through nar­ra­tives or sit­u­a­tions. She employs mov­ing images and their sound­tracks to probe his­tor­i­cal rup­tures and fail­ures of lan­guage. By dis­tanc­ing us from a log­i­cal, direct, lan­guage-based per­spec­tive, her work offers mul­ti­ple pos­si­bil­i­ties and interpretations.

In Brincat’s videos, she often per­forms in rel­a­tive soli­tude. In such works, she push­es her phys­i­cal and cog­ni­tive lim­its, fol­low­ing rule-based actions. Her ​‘walk­ing pieces’ occur in vast­ly dif­fer­ent con­texts, from emp­ty fields, to busy urban sites, and the ocean. The video works take the form of doc­u­ment­ed and often repet­i­tive actions. Col­lab­o­ra­tion is an impor­tant part of Brin­cat’s prac­tice; with per­cus­sion­ists, archi­tects, sci­en­tists, chore­o­g­ra­phers, eques­tri­an rid­ers and indige­nous horse whis­per­ers. Her sculp­tur­al pieces may sit alone or along­side the video works, often giv­ing the mov­ing image a tac­tile presence.

Brincat’s most recent work has tak­en the form of blank ban­ners and sculp­tures made of sail­cloth, as well as mal­leable forms in tex­tile that may be acti­vat­ed by participants.

Brin­cat’s works are in the col­lec­tions of: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Syd­ney; Muse­um of Con­tem­po­rary Art Aus­tralia, Syd­ney; MONA / Muse­um of Old and New Art, Hobart; as well as pri­vate and cor­po­rate collections.

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