[Texte disponible uniquement en anglais] I am an artist working within single-channel video, performance and installation. My work explores contemporary cultural iconography and the idealised (un)realities that exist within it. I am particularly fascinated by the symbolism of popular clichés, and within my work pastiche isolated and fragmented cultural conventions, and shape them into revealing stories or situations.
I am interested in the mechanics of performance and representation. I perform the roles in my videos as myself and myself-as-cultural-stereotype, highlighting the...[Texte disponible uniquement en anglais] I am an artist working within single-channel video, performance and installation. My work explores contemporary cultural iconography and the idealised (un)realities that exist within it. I am particularly fascinated by the symbolism of popular clichés, and within my work pastiche isolated and fragmented cultural conventions, and shape them into revealing stories or situations.
I am interested in the mechanics of performance and representation. I perform the roles in my videos as myself and myself-as-cultural-stereotype, highlighting the artificial and burlesque nature of the characters I represent. I push my performances so that they become a “theatre of performance” – an allusion to the absurdity of the cultural roles we “play” and are played for us in the theatre of life.
My work is playful and humorous, and at times absurd, but it is also an ongoing examination of masquerade and mimicry, and a personal interaction where I play at becoming something ‘other’ than myself. I am particularly interested in gender construction (both male and female) in popular culture and represent gender as elastic and unrealistic.
I have exhibited work in galleries such as A.R.A.C., Paris, Gallery Titanik, Turku, Finland, Harold Golen Gallery, Miami, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Plimsol Gallery, Tasmania, Metro Arts, Brisbane, Kings Artist Run Initiative, Melbourne, and Westspace Gallery, Melbourne. My films have screened in numerous festivals in Australia, the U.S.A., Korea, and Europe. I completed my Masters degree at RMIT in 2003. I am currently based in Paris.
I am interested in the mechanics of performance and representation. I perform the roles in my videos as myself and myself-as-cultural-stereotype, highlighting the...[Texte disponible uniquement en anglais] I am an artist working within single-channel video, performance and installation. My work explores contemporary cultural iconography and the idealised (un)realities that exist within it. I am particularly fascinated by the symbolism of popular clichés, and within my work pastiche isolated and fragmented cultural conventions, and shape them into revealing stories or situations.
I am interested in the mechanics of performance and representation. I perform the roles in my videos as myself and myself-as-cultural-stereotype, highlighting the artificial and burlesque nature of the characters I represent. I push my performances so that they become a “theatre of performance” – an allusion to the absurdity of the cultural roles we “play” and are played for us in the theatre of life.
My work is playful and humorous, and at times absurd, but it is also an ongoing examination of masquerade and mimicry, and a personal interaction where I play at becoming something ‘other’ than myself. I am particularly interested in gender construction (both male and female) in popular culture and represent gender as elastic and unrealistic.
I have exhibited work in galleries such as A.R.A.C., Paris, Gallery Titanik, Turku, Finland, Harold Golen Gallery, Miami, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Plimsol Gallery, Tasmania, Metro Arts, Brisbane, Kings Artist Run Initiative, Melbourne, and Westspace Gallery, Melbourne. My films have screened in numerous festivals in Australia, the U.S.A., Korea, and Europe. I completed my Masters degree at RMIT in 2003. I am currently based in Paris.
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