Taloi Havini, Useful Arts 2021

Taloi Havini, Useful Arts 2021

In Taloi Havini’s Useful Arts, dynamic, floating compositions and arrangements of objects, places and designs, combined with hand-rendered digital painting, drawing and erasure, destabilise dominant narratives of place as well as colonising practices of documentation...
Hossein & Nassiem Valamanesh, What Goes Around 2021

Hossein & Nassiem Valamanesh, What Goes Around 2021

What Goes Around is a moving image work by Adelaide-based artist Hossein Valamanesh in collaboration with his son, Melbourne-based filmmaker Nassiem Valamanesh. An intricate, delicate, irregular and yet spherically shaped lattice of branches appears slowly revolving...
Nicholas Mangan, Limits to Growth – Part 3 (Letter to Rai) 2020

Nicholas Mangan, Limits to Growth – Part 3 (Letter to Rai) 2020

Referencing a diverse array of phenomena, from bitcoin cryptocurrency mining and biodiversity credits to Micronesian Rai stone currency, multidisciplinary artist Nicholas Mangan’s new film expands upon and ‘unmakes’ his critically celebrated and ongoing project Limits...
Grant Stevens, Fawn in the Forest 2020

Grant Stevens, Fawn in the Forest 2020

Fawn in the Forest In Fawn in the Forest, an animated juvenile deer wanders through a computer-generated redwood forest. Programmed with artificial intelligence (AI), the fawn moves placidly around the environment, walking, eating, and resting undisturbed by...
Laresa Kosloff, Radical Acts 2020

Laresa Kosloff, Radical Acts 2020

Radical Acts is a darkly humorous and critical short film by Melbourne artist Laresa Kosloff assembled and edited entirely from corporate video stock footage sourced on the internet. Radical Acts tells a fantastical story about frustrated climate scientists who come...