My throat/a shelter

My throat/a shelter is a new publication by The Physics Room. It developed from the 2023 exhibition My throat/a shelter, curated by Amy Weng, with newly commissioned moving-image works by artists Selina Ershadi and James Tapsell-Kururangi. The exhibition was situated in embodied and intangible systems of knowledge, as Ershadi and Tapsell-Kururangi follow family narratives embedded in oral histories, home videos, material portents and screen histories.

This publication features written contributions by Hana Pera Aoake, Manon Revuelta and Amy Weng. Weng’s extended essay expands on her curatorial interest in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s book Dictee, and brings Tapsell-Kururangi and Ershadi’s work into contact with other writers and theorists to think about intercultural cinema, translation and temporalities. Aoake reflects on the unknown dimensions of parents and tūpuna in relation to Tapsell-Kururangi’s film Homman. Revuelta’s poetic response to Ershadi's two-channel film چشم چشمه elucidates Ershadi’s distinct filmic language across this and previous works.

Accompanied by stills from Ershadi and Tapsell-Kururangi’s films, My throat/a shelter is an incisive document of this significant moving-image exhibition.