Bootleg

Bootleg is an exhibition about production and transmission beyond sanctioned channels: concealed objects, attempted translation, unauthorised sound, items taken and distributed at night, nocturnal documents, a break-in. By way of accumulation and disassembly, Abigail Aroha Jensen and Tamsen Hopkinson deal with how theft is inscribed in the land and materials abandoned to it. Activities like looting, copying, and discarding are familiar modes of relating to the conditions of the contemporary. Both artists engage with this incessant continuum of sonic and physical debris that scores the present, to produce tactile tools that transmute such inherited systems and expectations of behaviour.