Overview, Images
Kawita Vatanajyankur, Scale of Justice, 2021. Video still. Courtesy the artist. Commissioned by Channels Festival.

Channels Festival: Kawita Vatanajyankur

Kawita Vatanajyankur

16 Mar–2 Apr 2022

Kawita Vatanajyankur is a Thai-born artist whose video-based performances explore the ways in which the human body, in particular the female body, is positioned within capitalist frameworks. Her work often addresses the hidden labour behind domestic and commercial work by using her own body as an instrument to undertake a series of repetitive tasks, testing her own physical and psychological endurance.

Vatanajyankur’s new body of work explores the rising ethical and sustainability concerns in the fast fashion industry. Her research centres on the exploitation and violence of workers and the damaging environmental impacts from the use of genetically modified cotton seeds, chemical dyes and fertilizers used to produce fast fashion.

Channels Festival is an artist-led collective based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia which is dedicated to commissioning and showcasing contemporary video art practice from around the world.

Art work

The Scale of Injustice, 2021. 4K Video.

The Spade, 2020. 4K Video, part of Field Work Series.

Onsite, Exhibition
Overview

Channels Festival is an artist-led collective based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia which is dedicated to showcasing emerging trends in contemporary video art practice from around the world.

Opening: 17 Mar–2 Apr 2022, 7am–9am

This program takes place on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We recognise that sovereignty was never ceded - this land is stolen land. We pay respects to Wurundjeri Elders, past, present and emerging, to the Elders from other communities and to any other Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders who might encounter or participate in the program.

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