Hotel Confidential

Room 101

Key Codes by Margaret Pryde, Sarah Cooper and Rob Southcott reimagines vintage hotel keys as sculptural portals, shifting forms from functional artifacts to vessels of nostalgic narration. Access is no longer to a room, but to moments suspended in cinematic time.

Audiences will see sculptural objects ranging from standard size hotel key chains to over sized sculptures installed within the hotel room.

Room 102

Room for Multispecies Rest- Nanotopia, Clara Polanco, Bay Woodyard. A room imagined as an ecosystem where forest futures take root through the entanglement of human, more-than-human, and technological worlds.

Part shelter, part speculative habitat, the space invites a practice of multispecies rest and care. It proposes a different orientation to living: reciprocity instead of extraction, kinship instead of separation, and a future where the forest is not a resource but a collaborator.

Room 103

Drawing on the hotel room’s role as a temporary site of passage, Dainesha Nugent-Palache’s photographic installation considers the space as a container for fleeting encounters, layered narratives, and the unseen stories that move through the architecture of travel.  

Working in collaboration with Curator Joséphine Denis (Co-Director of BAND Gallery), Room 103 will be transformed into an immersive environment activated by sound and readings.

Room 104

An evolving three-day performance that is a collaboration between contemporary dancer Christopher House and the hotel room itself. House will explore the conceptual implications of the archetype of a “hotel room”; its sense of privacy, fantasy, wayward play, and layered history. The performance indicates traces of past and future guests while being firmly rooted in the now.

Hallways & Stairwells

LeuWebb Projects (Christine Leu and Alan Webb) engage with the corridor as a space of transience within the hotel, exploring the work of care that facilitates the guest experience. The artist duo’s photo-based collage installation occupies the annex’s passageway and windows, opening a dialogue with the parallel worlds of those that support the hotel environment.

Radio Confidential

For the three days of the exhibition, the air waves of The Royal Hotel & Annex Building will be filled with the temporal sounds of Radio Confidential. Inspired by the radio broadcast in Jim Jarmuch’s 90’s classic film Mystery Train, musician and artist Chip Yarwood will broadcast live radio for audiences and hotel guests to “tune in”. 

Acting as a conceptual catalogue for the Exhibition, the element of radio ties all the projects in the Annex and Hotel to the fourth dimension … TIME.

 Come On In

by Spark Box Studio

A stack of luggage holds worlds in waiting. Drawing from the corridors, rooms, and forgotten corners of temporary dwellings, Chrissy Poitras and Kyle Topping open each case to reveal abstracted scenes of in-between spaces. They look at moments of transit suspended in paper and form. Working with diorama and pop-up book structures, the artists transform familiar vessels of travel into an architecture of the liminal.

Do Not Disturb

by Joel Gregorio

Joel Gregorio’s collage work juxtaposes images and artwork from the public domain and reimagines them into contexts that roam sub-conscience territories.  Each image is a door to an inner world. A private snapshot of longing, desire, voyage and beauty.  The work evokes a sense of nostalgia and familiarity while playing with meaning and metaphor.