The term “dry-gulch” means to sinisterly ambush and comes from the eponymously named dried-up ravines in the American West where predatory bandits lay in wait to murder and rob travelers. “Gulch” also invokes the onomatopoeic notion of swallowing or drinking voraciously. Such ambivalent significations permeated the exhibition space, which was transformed into a site of dry-mouth anxiety and sweaty anticipation.
Produced for Boxcopy Contemporary Artspace Brisbane www.boxcopy.org
The term “dry-gulch” means to sinisterly ambush and comes from the eponymously named dried-up ravines in the American West where predatory bandits lay in wait to murder and rob travelers. “Gulch” also invokes the onomatopoeic notion of swallowing or drinking voraciously. Such ambivalent significations permeated the exhibition space, which was transformed into a site of dry-mouth anxiety and sweaty anticipation.
Produced for Boxcopy Contemporary Artspace Brisbane www.boxcopy.org