
Performance
Friday 20 June 2025, 8:00am
Gertrude Contemporary
21-31 High Street, Preston SouthFriday 20 June, 6–8pm
Luckily There's No Inside (2025) by Ardi Gunawan was performed for two hours as part of the opening event of Of Stadiums and Construction Sites (Ne change rien pour que tout soit différent) a project by Lisa Radford.
Completing the 2011 re-enactment of a performance titled Sculptural Relations (2009), Gunawan’s Luckily There’s No Inside (2025) collapses the factual with speculative fiction and psychological projection post-pandemic, parody and bad taste. A series of muppet-esque characters based on Mimmo Cozzlino’s documentation of the original performance signal the zombification of culture and the genealogy of Gunawan’s current paintings. Performance by Victorian College of the Arts theatre students: Tainá Araujo, Alex Fimeri, Gisele Forsyth, Lana Rosalea, Narii Salmon, Issy Staiger-Creed and Diana Quarshie.