Saturday September 26th, 1-2:30pm

In conjunction with the Student Forum 2026 exhibition The Conditions of Being Here, artist Jack Galligan will activate the gallery space through a durational performance.

Using the body as a means through which space is negotiated and produced, this performance sees the gallery become a site of tension, spectacle, and social encounter in. Unfolding as an improvised series of vignette style poses backed by the constant running of a Henry Hoover, Galligan repeatedly begins the performance but never quite resolves our expectations for it. Using the visual language of theatre and drawing from the artist’s experiences as a young person, this work is asking how expectations contribute to our experiences within ‘an exhibition’ and a gallery space.

The event is free and all are welcome to attend.

Image: Jack Galligan, Everyone is Secretly Expecting That Something Beautiful Will Happen to Them, (2026), performance view. Image by Dylan Gomery.