Michaela Gleave
Universal Maintenance

As part of the opening programs for Event Horizon, Michaela Gleave will initiate her first Universal Maintenance performance, an ongoing series devised for her project at Artspace. In Universal Maintenance Gleave undertakes acts of care—tuning the space through sonic interventions, resetting sound loops as they drift out of phase, tending soil and organic matter, curating and re-ordering documents, inflating balloons to restore balance within the spatial and atmospheric field. In establishing this sense of impermanence and continual adjustment, the artist’s labour becomes a means of holding Event Horizon, and by extension, the universe itself in a state of provisional equilibrium.