“The ceilings are always really high at the airport”
Ari Angkasa
21 Feb → 21 Feb 2026
Performance

Ari holding an orange fish next to her face.
Ari Angkasa, 'The ceilings are always really high at the airport', 2026, performance, West Space, Collingwood Yards. Photography by Thomas McCammon.

The ceilings are always really high at the airport is a new performance by West Space artist in residence, Ari Angkasa.

Angkasa's practice interrogates posthuman technologies to envision alternative systems of performance, poetry, and image-making. With this work, she continues an ongoing exploration into the limits of the unseen voice and the propensity for resilience human bodies can hold.

Presented as part of the Melbourne Art Fair 2026. The West Space Studio program is generously supported by Melissa Loughnan & Simon Griffiths.

Ari performing in crowd.
Ari performing standing on burgundy carpet facing a crowd watching her.
Ari performing among a crowd of watching audience members. She is displaying an ipad with text and a hand gesture next to her face.
Ari performing apart of traditional Indonesian ritual in crowd.
Ari performing in crowd.
Ari performing in front of a row of lit candles. She has an ipad attached to her wrist that has text on the screen that says "River".
Ari running away from crowd with a microphone in her mouth.
Ari holding an orange fish by the tail.
Ari holding an orange fish next to her face.
Ari holding a fish like a loaded gun standing in front of silver elevator doors at the Collingwood Yards.
A group of people with their heads peering over a brick balcony.
Ari exiting an elevator holding an orange fish like a gun.
A group of four people with their backs to the camera looking out over a brick balcony.
Ari walking on gravel wearing all black and holding an orange fish like she is holding a gun.
Ari standing on top of a wooden table holding up an orange fish as if it were a gun. In front of her and audience member has their hands up as if to say 'dont' shoot'.
Ari with a surprised and shocked look on her face holding an orange fish like a gun.
Ari standing on a table holding an orange fish like a gun pointed at someone whose facial expressions are not visible.
Ari standing on a table holding an orange fish like a gun pointing it at people smiling.
Ari standing stationary holding an orange fish.
Ari posing with her arms out in front of her holding an orange fish like a gun.
Ari with her arms raised holding a white bucket pouring water over her head.

Ari Angkasa is an artist based in Naarm (Melbourne). Her practice interrogates posthuman technologies to envision alternative systems of filmmaking and performance art. Ankgasa is the performance curator at Miscellania and has exhibited with Soft Centre, Bangkok Kunsthalle, Institute of Modern Art, and Queer East Film Festival London.