Climate of Violence: Directions in sound and vision by Amy Sargeant and Arianna Nixon.
Amy Sargeant is a Meanjin based visual artist, musician and trans justice advocate. Through installations of sculpture, audio and video Amy’s work responds to her disillusionment with the dysfunctions of the Australian political establishment by reframing the elements of political spectacle. Amy deploys the Situationist method of détournement to de-stabilise motifs from mainstream politics, activist iconography, symbols and visual cultures.
Arianna Nixon is an emerging artist from Meanjin whose work explores gender and cultural dissonance. Her work reflects on notions of escapism and dialectical materialism in relation to queer & trans struggles, expressed via proprietary analog video techniques. Nixon’s practice draws on the work of postmodern video artists of the 1970s and 80s, and the impressionists of the century preceding.
