I’m Feeling Twitchy
Jack Ellery

Preview: Tuesday 21 October 2025, 6pm

Recordings of will be periodically uploaded here.

Installed in the window of COMMODE, I’m Feeling Twitchy is a bird feeder by Jack Ellery continuing his exploration of embodiment and more-than-human kinship. Constructed from found native timber, the feeder becomes a stage and a site of exchange between the human and avian, and a porous threshold through which gestures of care and attention pass.

Recorded over time and uploaded to COMMODE’s website, the feeder documents fleeting encounters that speak as much to presence and intimacy as to absence and movement. Ellery’s practice aligns with what Venetia Robertson describes as anthrozoomorphic identity, a reimagining of the boundaries between human and animal, art and life, as spaces of spiritual exchange.

Through its own quiet choreography, I’m Feeling Twitchy invests in the ecologies that surround us, reflecting on the politics of staying with and tending to. The feeder transforms COMMODE’s window into a living interface, an opening through which we are invited to nurture the present and recognise our shared, restless becoming.


Jack Ellery is a multimedia artist currently exploring embodied performance, and its reproduction/archive. By embracing the body as an active agent of meaning, Ellery aims to unpack human/nonhuman entanglements through a creative oscillation between immersion and detachment. Immersion within embodied knowledge production and ritualistic natural activities, and detachment with chronological, reproductive and archival techniques. This modality critiques not only the isolating immediacy of performance but the ways in which various digital and physical reproductions come to define the ontology and epistemology of the artwork. Instead the artwork concepts itself from the body and archives itself into meaning, continuing to graft from the affect of time, reproduction and archive.

Read Jack Ellery’s reflections on I’m Feeling Twitchy here.