Push // Pull 

3 May to 28 June 2025


Kirsty performed Pajarito Colibri at ACE's Push Pull, the song translates to 'little hummingbird '- a song about taking flight, having faith and Kirsty sings this as a form of remembrance of the divine in the face of the practicalities and frictions that consume Kirsty's life, the song is sung to embody the sense of freedom and spiritual flight. 

Push / Pull was a program of live, experiential, post-object and otherwise “non-haveable” art, including tactile installation, short and durational performance works, lecture performance, re-enactments and responses to the archive, video, poetry, plants, food, voice, experimental sound and music.  

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Tension is important. Under too much load, things fray, and eventually snap. Too little tension, however, and there’s no push and no pull; only slackness. The right amount of tension can be  productive - sharpening senses, attuning us to what is real, risky, and worthy of our attention. Experimental art thrives on tension, drawing its charge from confronting cliches, destabilising norms, proposing new modalities, and cultivating frisson.  

Unpacking Adelaide’s leading role as the historical world centre of so-called “post-object art” today, Push / Pull asks: What kinds of encounters are possible, when “the shock of the new” is a  local tradition? How can we “think with” the artistic radicalism of the past in ways that outpace old limitations while retaining experimental essences, and amplifying unruly energies? How can we build worlds within contemporary and experimental art around the act of being mutually present? 

Push / Pull explores these and other tensions in an exhibition and live program offering points of connection with archival and contemporary “non-haveable” thought and practice.


Push / Pull was curated by Dani Zulvela and Henry Wolff
https://ace.gallery/whats-on/exhibitions/push-pull