At PICA we recognise that we are situated within the unceded lands of the Whadjuk people of the Noongar Nation. We pay our respects and offer our gratitude to Elders past and present, and to those emerging leaders in the community. We acknowledge all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and the importance of their care and continued connection to culture, community and Country.

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We are open 10am–5pm. Our exhibitions are always free.

Adam Geczy

Adam Geczy

Adam Geczy

Evoking 60s and 70s video art, Adam Geczy’s Concerts explores themes of collaboration, friendship, contemplation and empathy through music. These two video works involve two of Geczy’s friends and collaborators, Peter Sculthorpe, Australia’s foremost living composer and Mike Parr, one of the nation’s leading conceptual artists. One work depicts Geczy being taught a sonata for the left hand (Parr has no left hand); the other shows Sculthorpe in the private process of musical imagining in composition – here on themes from his seventeenth string quartet composed on the theme of friendship. Described as the ‘consummate videographic creation’ by leading art writer John Conomos, this enthralling and resonant installation by one of Australia’s most thought-provoking and inquiring artists is ‘a clarion call to the importance of ideas, dialogue, history and politics in art’.