Events
Dean Ansell Presents The Riḡorabana, The Balawaia: An Extended Sound Performance at Fish Lane Town Square
Fish Lane Precinct, in partnership with Outer Space, is proud to present a captivating new sound performance by multidisciplinary artist Dean Ansell, unfolding in the heart of the Town Square.
This live activation extends Ansell’s current exhibition The Riḡorabana, The Balawaia, on view at Outer Space from April 25 to May 25. Through this performance, Ansell brings the sonic and embodied elements of the exhibition into the public realm, creating a powerful spatial and sensory experience that deepens the themes explored in the gallery.
Of Melanesian (Riḡorabana, Balawaia, Papua Niugini), Maltese, and Anglo-Celtic descent, and based in Meanjin, Ansell weaves his diverse heritage into immersive sonic landscapes. His practice, rooted in installation, soundscape, and embodied performance, re-imagines Melanesian mythologies and rituals, invoking a space of reverence, memory, and transformation.
Harnessing his body as an instrument in dialogue with the urban environment, Ansell’s performance offers a poetic exploration of cultural continuity and displacement. Audiences are invited to experience this powerful expression of diasporic identity and ancestral resonance, unfolding live in the open-air setting of Fish Lane Town Square.
Read more about The Riḡorabana, The Balawaia here
Performance Times:
Two 15-minute performances:
• 2:00pm – 2:15pm
• 2:45pm – 3:00pm
Location: Fish Lane Town Square, Meanjin (Brisbane)
Audience Advisory:
Audiences are advised that this exhibition includes sound, vibration, and low lighting, and mentions a deceased person. Please consider wearing ear plugs if you have sensory sensitivities, allowing you to experience the work for longer periods of time.
Crit Session w/ Tarun Nagesh
Photo of Tarun Nagesh.
Crit Sessions are a unique opportunity to develop your emerging, early or mid-career visual arts or curatorial practice with constructive feedback and discussions on your works or works-in-progress from some of australia’s leading artists, curators and industry professionals. This professional development series provides artists with valuable insights which are often hard to find outside of educational institutions.
Across 2025, we will be facilitating five Crit Sessions both online and in-person with industry leaders from across australia. For the first Crit Session of 2025, we will be joined by esteemed curator, Tarun Nagesh.
About the guest facilitator
Tarun Nagesh is Curatorial Manager of Asian and Pacific Art at QAGOMA, Brisbane, Australia. He leads the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art curatorial team, currently developing the 11th Triennial and has worked on the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th editions of the exhibition, alongside curating exhibitions with a particular focus on contemporary and historical Asian art. Tarun is a Board Member of the Institute of Modern Art (IMA), Brisbane, part of the inaugural Advisory Board of the ASEAN-Australian Centre and QLD State Representative for The Asian Arts Society of Australia (TAASA). He is an alumni of Monash University and The University of Melbourne.
ACCESSIBILITY: The session will be hosted at our location within the Judith Wright Arts Centre, which is wheelchair accessible from the Brunswick St entrance. If you have any specific access needs or questions, please either email admin@outerspacebrisbane.org or send us a message on Instagram.
These events are free with a very limited capacity of six participants per session. We intend for the sessions to be accessible, inclusive and supportive environments for creative and professional growth.
To register your interest in participating in this Crit Session, please complete the form below. EOIs close 11.59pm on Monday 24 February AEST.
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This project is supported by the Australian Government through Creative Australia.
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