19 March - 12 April 2025

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Inneke Taal
Citing site: an atomic discourse

Statement 

In citing site: an atomic discourse, Inneke Taal explores the act of linguistic dialogue replaced by the gesture of performative moving objects in space; a figurative analogue for the dynamics at play in the absence of words.

Silent scenes of moving props, a pair of G-Force bouncy balls, activate site in a conspicuous dance of relationality. The pair in motion are in dialogue but the conditions are unclear. Magnetism, choreography and gravity appear without any attached source of activation. These physical forces and props seek to reveal something otherwise unarticulated within a site – its performativity.

Artist Bio

Inneke Taal is an Australian artist currently based in The Netherlands. Her in(ter)dependent practice uses moving images, sound, and performance to explore the spatial politics of communication and dialogue, how embedded infrastructures can inform and deform how language (linguistic and non-linguistic) resides in space and between bodies. She interrogates its performativity and power, seeking to reveal intimate and concealed discourses by listening to silences and insistences, and translating these into visual and sonic analogues.

Inneke is also engaged and encouraged by her part in multiple collaborative practices where shared interests intersect and contaminate. For Taal, these practices are vital to generating a more sustainable and enjoyable way to survive and be supported as an artist. Taal practices with others in conversation through invested time, shared space and intuitive possibilities that culminate in sculptural interventions, sound, moving image, text-based work and performance.

Taal is completing a Master of Fine Art at The Piet Zwart Institute in The Netherlands supported by a 2023-2024 Anne and Gordon SAMSTAG International Visual Art Scholarship and Ian Potter Cultural Trust Emerging Artist Grant in 2025. She has a Bachelor of Visual Art Honours from Adelaide Central School of Art and a Bachelor of Art in Linguistics and Drama from Deakin University.

Taal was a runner up in the inaugural 2024 Fluxus Museum Prize in Paros, Greece, for her work The Artist Has No Materials (16 acts of making). She was nominated for an Adelaide Fringe Weekly Award in the Art & Design category in 2022 for her solo show Site Interrupted at Sauerbier House, Port Noarlunga. She has exhibited/published works in Australia, The Netherlands, Sweden, Greece and Denmark.