# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Loquii | Freudenfreude / Love is an Act of Resistance 
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 28 Feb, 2026 at 12:00 am – Sat, 28 Feb, 2026 at 04:00 am
- **Event Description**: Freudenfreude is a German term meaning joy derived from another person’s happiness. It describes the pleasure felt when witnessing someone else succeed or experience joy.

 Freudenfreude / Love Is an Act of Resistance explores how through social interaction, social media, news cycles, and identity politics deeply entrenched in the world around us can pull individuals deeper into self-reinforcing narratives. These originate through online echo chambers which narrow empathy, and amplify fear and hatred to a fever pitch.

Love, by contrast, requires real effort to listen, to remain open, to resist simplification, to see that nothing is just black and white, and to see the complexity in one another. Love is an act of resistance because it runs counter to systems that profit from division, fear, and dehumanisation. Choosing love requires refusing simplifying issues, resisting outrage, and rejecting narratives that turn people into enemies. As polarisation and algorithm-driven extremity become signs of the times, love becomes a conscious, defiant practice of empathy, solidarity, and shared humanity. Love also challenges ego and certainty; it demands empathy in moments of fear or disagreement. In a culture that rewards speed, control, and outrage, love is slower, more demanding, and therefore harder to sustain.

See the god in everyone.

The paintings in Freudenfreude / Love Is an Act of Resistance have been created using symbolic detritus that has been accumulated through time. These all have emotional values such as collage, thread, figurines, text, tape, organic matter, matches, x-rays sections, hair, blood, maps, photos and . The paintings themselves have been created in a traditional way - acrylic and drawing on canvas, drawing on paper whilst using the non-painterly elements to further accentuate the intangible telemetry between viewer and works.

Image: Loquii, I’m going to do a new thing. Acrylic on canvas

Loquii | Freudenfreude /  Love Is an Act of Resistance 
30 January – 14 March 2026
Special opening event 5.30pm 30 January. All welcome FREE
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- **Event Categories**: Art, fine-arts
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Bairnsdale
- **state**: VI
- **country**: Australia
- **location**: 2 Nicholson Street, Bairnsdale, VIC, Australia, Victoria 3875
- **lat**: -37.826
- **long**: 147.62489
- **full address**: 2 Nicholson Street, Bairnsdale, VIC, Australia, Victoria 3875

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: East Gippsland Art Gallery (https://allevents.in/org/east-gippsland-art-gallery/7583376)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 28 Feb, 2026 at 12:00 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 2 Nicholson Street, Bairnsdale, VIC, Australia, Victoria 3875
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** East Gippsland Art Gallery
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** Art, fine-arts
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Loquii | Freudenfreude / Love is an Act of Resistance  ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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