(ex)Magicka
2023
Part of the Ultra-terrestrial group show at Elevator ARI, Lismore NSW 06/05/23-26/05/23 with Sarah Walker, Anna Schwann and Lewis Gittus.
Polyester fabric, raw silk, beads, sequins, cotton thread, fabric dye, alcohol ink, eye glasses, cardboard, spray paint, rope, aluminium wig stand, latex, heart-shaped confetti hand-punched from a kids how-to magic book, live performance.
Be my salty muse
2023
acrylic, latex, pigment on wood panel.
Andrea Meacham’s (ex)Magicka uses textiles, sculptural costume, painting and roving performance to tell the story of an ex-magician. Magic used to inspire this foolish character. He saw his awesomeness, his regal talent, in the professed smiles of incredulity and self-spruiking claims he possessed a slight-of-hand like no other. But people weren’t coming to his shows, even the super geeky pre-teens couldn’t pry their faces from TikTok and bear witness to the spectacle, he ruminated. He feared he’d lost his edge. Had he washed-up? Obsessed with shrunken audiences, fading youth and arthritic hands, he began a strict regime of Thalassotherapy. A heady diet of kelp, and spirulina gave his skin a greenish tinge. As the relentless steamy seawater baths and marine collagen injections began to take effect, he felt himself becoming something else, something strange. And yet, the urge to magic never left him.
︎ Sarah Walker and Fabian Pertzel.