Reworlding (Elizabeth)

Alison Bennett + Jeremy Martino + Greg Penn + Autumn Royal

2 Jan–12 Feb 2017

Reworlding (Elizabeth) offers a multidisciplinary investigation into the concept of digital-hybridity. The collective process in producing the work imitates the technological and physical layers we often encounter to expose the limitation of the dichotomy between the representational and the real.

Reworlding (Elizabeth) was originally created for a live webinar event between the HDR/PhD Communities from the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University and Deakin Motion.Lab Centre for Creative Arts Research at Deakin University. The participants were given the prompt ‘what is digital life in a hybrid world?’ and Reworlding (Elizabeth) was the Deakin response.

This work was awarded for ‘Innovative Use of Digital Media’ at the Centre for Contemporary Photography Salon 2016.

Curated by Xanthe Dobbie on behalf of QueerTech.io.

Online, Exhibition, Play

Overview

PLAY (2014-2019) was a continuously programmed online gallery that presented single channel video art by national and international artists to audiences throughout Australia and the world.

Reworlding (Elizabeth) is a collaborative work by artists Alison Bennett + Greg Penn, and writers Jeremy Martino + Autumn Royal. Curated by Xanthe Dobbie on behalf of QueerTech.io.

Acknowledgment

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.

Biographies

Alison Bennett + Jeremy Martino + Greg Penn + Autumn RoyalAlison Bennett and Greg Penn describe their practice as expanded photography. Jeremy Martino and Autumn Royal are writers. They are all higher degree researchers at Deakin University.

Curators

Xanthe Dobbie is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation in Naarm, Melbourne. Working across on- and offline modes of making, their practice aims to capture the experience of contemporaneity as reflected through queer and feminist ideologies. Drawing on humour, pop, sex, history and iconography, they develop shrines to a post-truth era. They have exhibited extensively locally and internationally with recent works including live-streamed theatre, interactive media, AR, VR, collage, performance and installation.
Significant exhibitions include Matrix Re-Loaded at RMIT First Site Gallery (2023), Cloud Copy at Lismore Regional Gallery (2023), The Long Now at ACMI (2022), and Don’t Be Evil at UQ Art Museum (2021). Xanthe recently won the Incinerator Art Award for Social Change and in 2023 was Guest Editor for Runway Journal Issue #46 Ghost. They co-founded performance series Queer PowerPoint for which they have performed at major festivals and institutions including MCA, Sydney Opera House, WA Museum, RISING, and Now or Never. Xanthe is currently undertaking a PhD focusing on digital and interactive art at RMIT University as part of the ARC Linkage Archiving Australian Media Art: Towards a Method and National Collection.