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Connie Anthes
Installation of Kyle Ford's work: My lint is a token of my slow unravelling | 2017
Installation of Kyle Ford's work: My lint is a token of my slow unravelling. @
Untitled (Dissent/Descent) is about the failure of protest and activist politics to generate social change. I have been painstakingly reproducing North American suffragette banners and objects that invert the messages of hope they once carried, and will temporarily surrender my own agency so that an Other might perform them. This is not a strident reclamation of ‘women’s work’, I just needed time to think. This work is part of the Cementa Initiative, ‘Correspondence of Imaginary Places’ For a full report visit the blog here
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Connie Anthes is an artist based in Sydney. She makes paintings, objects, performances, interventions and installations and considers her art activities to be process-based experiments. Anthes has shown her work in Sydney, Melbourne, Newcastle, Bathurst, Hobart, Launceston and Leipzig and has been the recipient of numerous grants and residencies, both in Australia and abroad. Anthes is an active member of the Sydney artist-run community, having been a past director of Firstdraft gallery, Runway magazine, and a member of the MCA Artist Advisory Group. She recently co-founded Frontyard in Marrickville and is one half of the collaborative duo Make or Break.
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Untitled (Dissent/Descent) is about the failure of protest and activist politics to generate social change. I have been painstakingly reproducing North American suffragette banners and objects that invert the messages of hope they once carried, and will temporarily surrender my own agency so that an Other might perform them. This is not a strident reclamation of ‘women’s work’, I just needed time to think.
Untitled (98 vacancies) 2013 | 2013
Untitled (98 vacancies) 2013. @
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Installation with 98 one-of-a-kind concrete objects, vacant lot. 98 one-of-a-kind concrete sculptures – casts of the vacant spaces contained in a series of unwanted domestic objects – are installed in a vacant residential lot in the centre of Kandos. This work stands as a memorial to the locals who lost their jobs when the Kandos Cement Works closed in 2012.
