The Movement of Cells investigates the privatization of the previously state-run ‘Southern Queensland Correctional facility’ by multinational cooperation Serco. This will bring the number of incarcerated women in Queensland to over 1000 with 400 prison cells state wide.
The ongoing project is concerned with how current legal systems reduce a person to a set of criminal actions, individualizing and moralizing systemic issues. This process fails to take into consideration the heightened and targeted rates of Indigenous and Transgender incarceration. The Movement of Cells reverses the process of current legal systems onto the viewer, asking them to take a position on the conditions of Australian correctional facilities.
Accompanying essay by Tim Riley Walsh
Opening Event: 6-9pm Wed 16th Jan 2018
Open by appointment 17-27th Jan
We would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of Meanjin, on which this project is carried out. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded and pay our respect to elders past, present and emerging.
