Adelaide Salon introduces Wedding Crashers – and invites you to a series of performances taking place in bed!

Artist: Nola

Adelaide Salon is having a two-part Open House this May. First of all, we’d love to learn a little about the exhibition taking place over the first two festival weekends.
Artist Open Houses Festival is always such an exciting month for The Adelaide Salon. This is our third year taking part in the festival and we are happy to discover so many people revisiting us.

Artist: Scarlet Pochet

This year we introduced The Adelaide Salon ‘LAB’. The ‘LAB’ being our area for supporting young and emerging curators and artists. With our young curators Bill Redshaw and Ben Coleman we presented ‘Wedding Crashers’ on the theme of decolonising traditional art spaces and placing young and emerging artists into the current socio-political conversation.

The exhibition is curated by emerging curators and artists, can you tell us a little about this and the artists they have selected?
The selection is representative of what the young and emerging artists want to talk about, the themes of the contemporary world. Most of the artists are 25-30yrs old.

Artist: Scarlet Pochet

How did they arrive at the title of ‘Wedding Crashers’?
When Ben and Bill visited the space for the first time, situated in a period styled Georgian building, they talked about its resemblance to a wedding venue, imposing, with the period ornamental plaster decorations also like frosting on a cake. The curators stressed that it is a rare occasion for themselves and young and emerging artists to show in such a space, which was why they felt like ‘Wedding Crashers’.

And how is this idea being thematically interpreted by the artists and curators?
There is a ‘loose’ theme running through the exhibition, with respect to the style of the presentation and some of the artwork, with also the ‘disruptive’ element of the works being that the artists are ‘gatecrashers’.

Artist/curator: Bill Coleman

For the second two weekends you have a series of performance artists programmed for a show titled Externum; can you tell us a little about the ideas and artists  involved?
In the second two weekends of May we are introducing an exhibition of new ongoing works by artist Paulina Anzorge titled ‘Externum’, creating a conversation between the intimate and public, between internal and external.

We’ve have heard some of the performances take place in bed! Can you tell us about this?
The exhibition will be accompanied by the performance ‘Artist Bed’. This is about the artist’s place in the ever-changing world, social engagement with art, and the legacy of the artist.

Artist: Andy Ash

After the 24hour Live Performance Art event organised this past December for the Winter Open Houses, we have decided to look deeper into the ether, and devised and curated a new performance ‘Artist Bed’.

We have invited twelve artists to perform every day, all day, one after the other so the visitors again can experience different languages of creating and explore relationships with artists and the creative process. All performances take place in bed! Ultimately, in the historical terms, who wouldn’t like to spent some time in bed with John and Yoko, Frida Kahlo or Picasso:)

Artist: Imme Ruth

Most of the performing artists will invite members of the audience to join them in creative process, watch how they develop their works when no-one is watching or share the stories. We want the public to be part of the process. This is also interesting for us to discover how different this interaction will be from the 24hour performance when the public could only view performances through a shop window. Here all distance disappears, it is inviting the public to come very, very close…exciting and nerve racking:)

Artist: Nicki Alford

Can you tell us a little more about Paulina’s own work for this show?
In this show ‘Externum’ – latin for external, Paulina creates a world from within, an exploration of the themes of a human in the world. She uses mythology, psychology and collective memory through personal experiences. The majority of works presented during this exhibition are painted onto bed sheets as a part of a larger site-specific installation, including the ‘Artist Bed’ a series of curated, performances, provoking a conversation about sharing the world and it’s experiences through the process of exchange between internal and external.

What are your chief expectations for audience experience and reactions?
As always, we wanted to invite the audience to question, to experience and to connect. This time, the exhibition ‘Externum’ creates a very cosy background for self-discovery.

Is there anything else you would like to tell us?
The Adelaide Salon is excited to launch a first ever, year-long artist residency with the amazing performance artist: Isobel Smith @isobelxsmith on Sunday 25th May 2025 4pm-6pm.

During Isobel’s residency we will organise a regular rhythm of happenings, workshops, talks, and publications to share process and ideas as well as a final fabulous finnissage.

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Artist: Perdita Sinclair

All photos by: Neil Pavey