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We live our lives and experience the world through materials, objects, things鈥攊n return, these things are how we construct and affirm ourselves; we choose them because their properties help us interface with and navigate the world. From the associations we make with these objects and what we read as their anthropomorphic 鈥渂ehaviours鈥�, meanings erupt, turning our relationship with the thing as one that is simultaneously extremely personal and highly political.

Exposing one鈥檚 own interconnection with the material world as an affirmation of deviance from the norm appeals for a reconsideration of the banal. Indeed, purposefully enhancing the humour and theatrics that already emerge from the disclosure of our strange and personal relationships with things can be a method of unveiling otherwise unseen truths from a complex and entangled world.

The works chosen for this exhibition show how, through their manipulation and display, objects are by default imbued with an innate theatricality. In the performances enacted onscreen, they take the role of 鈥減rops鈥濃�攁 simple tool or vehicle enhancing a given gesture鈥攐r they populate the environment in which the performance happens, enhancing the dramaturgy to the point of exuberance鈥攓ualified as 鈥渃amp鈥�. This selection of video works surveys a spectrum of approaches, sketching a gamut of expressions possible through the material: from the poetic, through the personal, the zany, and to the political. These artists demonstrate 鈥渟tuff鈥� as a vehicle to reach a depth in nuance not possible with gestures or text alone.