The Apparitionist
Schedule
Fri, 26 Sep, 2025 at 06:00 pm to Thu, 02 Oct, 2025 at 04:00 pm
UTC+09:30Location
Floating Goose Studios Inc. | Adelaide, SA
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'The Apparitionist' by Roy AnandaFloating Goose Studios
Opening event, 6pm Friday September 26
Closing event (Roy Ananda in conversation with Andrew Purvis), 2pm Sunday October 19
Throughout this period the exhibition will be open Thursday to Sunday, 12pm - 4pm.
'The Apparitionist' comprises new collage works by Roy Ananda and continues the artist’s on-going examination of the weird and the eerie. The core mechanic of this body of work is the arrangement of apparently ‘rational’ or ‘qualitative’ imagery (in the form of infographics, diagrams, schematics, and the like) according to esoteric and occult organising principles. This generative studio strategy has proved to be surprisingly fruitful, resulting in the three hundred collages that make up the exhibition. As with much of Ananda’s recent work, the aesthetics and atmospheres of the amorphous field of hauntology permeate the exhibition. In addition to their visual allusions to the paranormal, each work is individually titled, with the majority deriving their titles from various examples of hauntological content, spanning literature, music, and film. These attributions are recorded on index cards which, taken collectively, offer up a kind of provisional ‘canon’ that ties together various strands of ghostly or spectral media. The dense installation of these works and their accompanying annotations is intended to suggest an encounter with an eccentric system of thought rooted in the irrational and the arcane.
The exhibition is accompanied by a newly commissioned text by one of the world's leading authorities on hauntology in popular media, Bob Fischer. Bob is the founder of The Haunted Generation, a multi-media exploration of the stranger side of the 1970s and '80s childhood. He writes a regular column of that name for Fortean Times, as well as contributing regularly to magazines including Electronic Sound, Shindig! and the official Doctor Who Magazine. Previously, he has been a record store owner, a BBC radio presenter and a short-lived Elvis impersonator (one gig).
Floating Goose is on Kaurna country and is supported by Create SA and Forage Supply Co.
Photograph in banner by Sam Roberts
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Where is it happening?
Floating Goose Studios Inc., 271 Morphett St, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia, AdelaideEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
