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Suffragist, an excerpt.
Suffragist, 2015
Single channel HD video (6min), prepared robotic furniture, woven tapestry, tufted wall hangings, slip-cast ceramics, dyed doillies. First shown at Interlude Gallery, July 2015. Abridged version shown at Casula Powerhouse January 2014.
A hundred years ago, British Suffragettes engaged in pitched battle to gain the vote. We have largely forgotten the white-hot, personal, radical fury that propelled their insurrection. What must it have meant, to outrun their own inner resistance, as they transformed themselves from well-respected members of society into bomb-throwing, police-flipping revolutionaries? What is the phenomenology of radicalisation?
PRESS:
Suffragist, at Interlude Gallery, July 2015
 SUFFRAGIST (video), DOMESTIC INSURRECTION |  SUFFRAGIST (video), DOMESTIC INSURRECTION (detail) |  DOMESTIC INSURRECTION (detail) |
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 EVEN OUR COMFORTS WILL TURN AGAINST US |  EVEN OUR COMFORTS WILL TURN AGAINST US (detail) |  EVEN OUR COMFORTS WILL TURN AGAINST US, THEY ADVANCE LIKE A BRISTLING MOULD O WAIT GOD HELP US THEY ARE IN OUR HOUSES |
 THEY ADVANCE LIKE A BRISTLING MOULD O WAIT GOD HELP US THEY ARE IN OUR HOUSES |  THEY ADVANCE LIKE A BRISTLING MOULD O WAIT GOD HELP US THEY ARE IN OUR HOUSES |  THEY ADVANCE LIKE A BRISTLING MOULD O WAIT GOD HELP US THEY ARE IN OUR HOUSES |
 THEY SHOULD BE DEAD BUT THEY JUST KEEP COMING |  DEEDS NOT WORDS |
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