Untitled Actions (RMIT)
2019
8 c-type photographs 60 x 80 cm
These photographs form part of an ongoing series of engagements with institutional space
and architecture. Through my photographic performances I investigate specific gestures and
movements undertaken within public and private spaces, considering the impacts on the body
by educational and institutional authority. The photographic process of recording the body in
space depicts my physical and experiential memory of these sites, which is often absurd or
uncomfortable.
My practice at large is informed by feminist theory and considers the implications of
representing a woman's body (my own) in an inherently fetishising medium. My aim with all
my photographs is to subvert the dominant ways we depict women's subjectivity.
This series was captured in various spaces at RMIT University (life drawing studio, court room, design archive), an institution I have engaged with as a photography student and now lecturer. It is also where my late father studied architecture in the 1950s, which prompted my thinking when making this work about our personal connections to these educational spaces over time.
This series was captured in various spaces at RMIT University (life drawing studio, court room, design archive), an institution I have engaged with as a photography student and now lecturer. It is also where my late father studied architecture in the 1950s, which prompted my thinking when making this work about our personal connections to these educational spaces over time.