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Emma Nixon

1 : 1 : Infinity, Issue 1

The Living Room
Audiodescribed at Briar Hill, Naarm Melbourne, Oct 2020
Issue 1 audio track 1:1:Infinity serial playlist
Published by 3-ply and Liquid Architecture, 2020

A co-publishing initiative of 3-ply and Liquid Architecture’s Disclaimer journal, 1:1:Infinity is a serial audio publication, conceived as an episodic column that offers a radical expansion in ratios of access. Voiced descriptions of artworks, performances, and situations, commissioned from our friends and associates, pivot on the Describer as embodied proxy and subjective guide. Turning from objective tropes, we invite conversational, improvised description, as if speaking to an intimate other. Each description is recorded in place, as the narrator navigates spontaneous perceptions, personal reactions, and critical relations to works, structures, and happenings we cannot see.

Recorded 19 October 2020 at Briar Hill, Naarm Melbourne, Emma Nixon describes the constellation of artworks and memories in the living room of her family home in Briar Hill, Naarm Melbourne, Australia.

About the describer: Curious about the tender intersections between art, life and friendships, Emma Nixon is an emerging curator and writer. In 2018 she completed a Bachelor of Art History and Curating at Monash University and co-founded Cathedral Cabinet ARI in the Nicholas Building. In Melbourne she has curated and written about exhibitions that investigate subjects such as abstraction, the domestic, care and collage within contemporary art. 

 
 

IMAGE DESCRIPTIONS
Phone snapshots by Emma Nixon of artworks within the Living Room, Briar Hill, Naarm Melbourne.

Snapshot 1: A white wall with a salon-style hang of paintings and screen prints of different colours, shapes and sizes. Below them is a mid-wood sideboard which acts as a shelf to colourful clutter such as vases, plates and small sculptures.

Snapshot 2: Phone photo of a birthday gift to John Nixon from Kerrie Poliness: three diamonds painted on perspex in orange, blue, and gold, which sit on a white ledge in a large window. The view is of a lush native garden and a grey sky.

Snapshot 3: The corner of a brown modernist couch sitting next to two stools, on one of them sits an orange lamp and on the other sits a framed blue and green screen print. On the wall above hangs a pink and white painting, a red and white flag that reads the word “HAPPY” and a blue and brown woven textile. In the top right corner of the image is an old air conditioner, its cord loosely dangles unplugged. Two record covers lean on top of it: one with orange and white stripes, and the other depicting a field of green grass and yellow flowers.