Lizzil Gay is an interdisciplinary performance/video artist and academic researcher. She explores the body as a site of political resistance and activism.
i still look for you (2021)
Dark Mofo: we want your blood
To call on the blood of First Nations peoples is not dark and edgy. It is an act of colonial violence and exploitation.
Alway Was Always Will Be
‘I live, create and work on the sacred and sovereign lands of the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the Kulin Nations, and respectfully acknowledge the elder’s past, present and future becoming. I acknowledge that the sovereignty of these lands has never been ceded and Read more…
Glittering Feminist Threads
I recently had the pleasure of working with Casey Jenkins suturing her body for her art work: Broken and re-made, time stretches across my lives and my thighs piercing me with splendour. The video work she produced was part of the Pockmark Project produced by Liv_id. Casey’s work had an Read more…
Thoughts on Empty Ocean and Exhibit A by Mike Parr
Empty Ocean and Exhibit A (Dark Mofo, Bruny Island and Detached Gallery) Excited to be getting on a ferry at 1am to make the trip to Bruny Island, I was rugged up and already tired. The trip through the water with the full moon in the sky, and the cold Read more…
Democracy
Direct Democracy Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA 26 April – 6 July 2013 I always find it refreshing to see art so clearly and unashamedly articulated as political. Direct Democracy an exhibition at MUMA was full of politically potent works calling our attention to both the necessity of, Read more…
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