Urban Systems: Assemblage & Affect
Andrew Gorman-Murray
Exhibition runs 19 – 29 March 2015

Nine out of every ten Australians live in cities. We are urban animals … and our urban habitat is a complex and evolving system. The city is an assemblage of structures, networks, landscapes, histories, capital and politics that interconnect and intertwine. The assemblage has paradoxical affects on us: it is familiar, it is home, but it is also sublime and uncanny.

Urban Systems: Assemblage and Affect is an exhibition of photography, post-photography and digital art that scrutinises and deconstructs the systems that underpin our lives. Drawing mainly on visual reconnaissance in Sydney, I explore the complexity of urban landscapes: architecture, infrastructure, streetscapes, psychogeographies and structures of capital storage and exchange. I speculate on intersections of cultural and natural systems: urban nature, atmosphere, affect and human-animal relations. I delve into political and psychological responses to transformations in landscape, place and belonging.

Andrew Gorman-Murray is a Sydney-based photomedia artist who works with photography, post-photography, digital art and video. His art is influenced strongly by his background in cultural geography, and explores relations between identity, place and environment. He has a PhD in human geography from Macquarie University and is about to complete a Master of Art in photomedia at UNSW Art and Design (formerly COFA). He has exhibited at the Royal Geographical Society, London, and Eramboo Artist Environment, Sydney

Andrew will give an artist talk in the gallery on Saturday 28 March, 2pm