Olga Cironis is a WA-based multidisciplinary artist working in installation and performance, investigating identity, connection to place and counter-histories. Combining art and life, Unspoken, Cironis’ most ambitious project to date, is a durational performance, where visitors are invited to enter, observe and engage with the artist as she explores the theme of voicelessness through a participatory moulding project.

Commemorating the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) and featuring Australian and international artists, HyperPrometheus re-contextualises Frankenstein for the new millennium within the realms of contemporary and biological arts. Monsters and monstrous creatures abound, in works that test our understanding of what it is to be human, living, natural, functional, valid or valued.

A special opportunity to hear directly from Kira O’Reilly, who is an exhibiting artist in HyperPrometheus. Kira will talk about her practice which employs performance, drawing, makings, biotechnical practices and writing with which to consider speculative reconfigurations around The Body.

Hear directly from two HyperPrometheus artists in an intimate artist talk. Nina Sellars, who describes her artwork as focused on human anatomy and its symbiotic history with arts and technology and Tarsh Bates who is concerned with the aesthetics of interspecies relationships and the human as a multispecies ecology. 

An interactive installation, that algorithmically actuates a minimal but full-body exoskeleton. Visitors insert their own choreography by moving the limbs of the miniStickMan physical interface. The physicality of the five hour performance is flattened by the projected shadow of StickMan and its video feedback.

Now - Oct 20, ArtCollective WA. New works by Toni Wilkinson, acclaimed Perth-based photo artist, which explore love, exile and our ever-expanding narcissistic libidinal economy. The exhibition which continues Toni’s fascination with photography’s peculiar capacity to reveal the possibilities and slips of ‘Dasein’ runs along-side an exhibition by Sera Waters, who is slowly creating a seven meter long textile-based installation.

Oct 12 - Nov 25, ALCOA Mandurah Art Gallery. Local scuba instructor, Hamish Brown, shows us the submerged world in his exhibition debut. With a keenness to share his passion of what lies beneath the waves, Hamish has discovered a penchant for photography. His specific skillset and fearless nature as a scuba diver provides him the ability, time and patience to capture the macro life underwater.

Now - Oct 13, Turner Galleries. New works by Jacobus Capone who has earned himself a reputation for creating performative artworks that explore extreme endurance whilst deeply engaging with the landscape. His latest offering encompasses three journeys over two years. A three-part pilgrimage sought to mourn Tasmania's once glaciated landscape and juxtapose it with Svalbard's currently active glacial environment. 

Oct 7, 10 and 11, Event Cinemas Innaloo. A visually beautiful documentary film that explores the life and art of French painter Paul Cézanne. Described by Picasso and Matisse as "the father of us all" Cézanne is considered one of the greatest artists of all time. Despite this, he remains somewhat unknown, somewhat misunderstood. Until now: this major new documentary film, Cézanne - Portraits of a Life, reveals the true man.

Now - Oct 7, PICA. Last chance to see the first solo exhibition in Australia by Argentinean artist, Amalia Pica who investigates how we communicate beyond the barriers of language. The work that lends its title to the exhibition, Please Open Hurry is a reference to the Chimpanzee Washoe, who with Sign Language used this simple sentence structure to request to go outside her enclosure.

Now - Oct 7, PICA. Another exhibition closing is by Lebanese born and Australian based, Khaled Sabsabi. A Self Portrait is the biggest survey exhibition of Sabsabi’s work to date and explores the complexities of place, identity, displacement, and ideological differences associated with migrant experiences and marginalisation to promote cultural awareness and acceptance.

Oct 5 - Nov 4, Contemporary Art Spaces Mandurah. Windfall is the culmination of Helen Coleman’s two year residency at CASM. She combines her background in botany and chemistry with a passion for art, to explore the eco-dye potential of local native plants and works primarily with natural and salvaged materials.

Now - Nov 4, Mundaring Arts Centre. A group exhibition of WA artists, each examining their relationship with tools they use on a daily basis as they create artworks, and the imagined tools that provide the answers to life, the universe and everything in between. The works remind us, that tools are an essential part of an artist’s life.