Who’s Killing Who? A Viewer’s Guide Early Man This generic “cave man” represents the first human settlers in Israel/Canaan/the Levant. Whoever they were. Canaanite What did ancient Canaanites …
Set Me Free (Jalal Mahamede)
COURT Judge: What’s your name? Accused: Human. Judge: Who are your parents? Accused: Neither mother nor father. Judge: Place of birth? Accused: Paradise that has turned to ruins. Judge: Family …
The Mask’s Weight (Amanda Anastasi)
Artist’s Statement ‘The Mask’s Weight’ is a poem written during the COVID-19 pandemic and during Melbourne 6th COVID lockdown. It explores the idea that wearing a mask is a lesser restriction …
The Immortals (Jenny Pollak)
Artist’s Statement This video poem is a work that began as an immersive sculptural installation comprised of three video projections falling across the floor, walls and ceiling of the Manly …
A Captain’s (Ian Gibbins)
Artist’s Statement “Here again, not well, likely a turnspit, jiggered … whose trajectory scours my sleep? What worriment forths mildewed landsend?” A captain, out on the high seas, on …
Fantasy (Murtaza Ali)
Artist’s Statement I was born in Mariabad Quetta, province of Balochistan, Southwestern Pakistan. Growing up surrounded by art centers, the smell of oil paint would be invaluable later in life …
Sea Country (Sophie Finlay)
wax and wane deep in the trench ancient reefs lie submerged — their skeletons remember when the cryosphere stretched taut over continents these drowned cities gleam grey like marcasite — …
Wali (Djon Mundine OAM)
Artist’s Statement Wali (Possum-Marsupial): A Memorial to the Spirit of Beauty, Flight and Play Totem is a spirit being, appearing as a natural species or force of nature that serves …
DRAWING ON THE LAND: GARIGAL COUNTRY (Michael Glasheen)
(Feature image: a portrait of Michael Glasheen by Juno Gemes) Michael Glasheen has been a pioneering force in the fields of experimental film and interactive media since the late 1960s. …
Back to You (Es Foong)
Artist’s Statement ‘No light, no sound, no air, no touch….’ Some people read this piece, as a love story, a poem about longing. And some people experience it as something …