HEFT 2020
In responding to the commission to create new work around Covid 19, I invited Rena Czaplinska-Archer and Victoria Hunt (two multi-disciplinary performance artists) to work with me.
Placing them within the confines of a war bunker I was able to juxtapose their bodies with dialogue even weightier than the way we might negotiate physical distancing, embodying the uneasy truce emerging over the course of a pandemic as we variously confront our relationship with ‘the other’.
(My thanks to the Nilimbik Council, VIC, for supporting this project)
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DANCING WITH INFINITY
This video responds to what I see as the growing burden of helplessness many of us carry in the face of the escalating evidence of climate change.
The slow appearance and disappearance of the head and shoulders of a woman entering and leaving the frame of the video provides a space free from the divisiveness of politics; a space where people are invited to acknowledge their emotions as they rise up; where acknowledgment can become the next step towards change.
Alex Khaskin – music
Jane Hebblewhite – performer
With thanks to NASA for sharing the audio of Voyager 2 as it passes by Jupiter
and to Sue Anderson for her support and generosity www.lynchpin.org.au)
In responding to the commission to create new work around Covid 19, I invited Rena Czaplinska-Archer and Victoria Hunt (two multi-disciplinary performance artists) to work with me.
Placing them within the confines of a war bunker I was able to juxtapose their bodies with dialogue even weightier than the way we might negotiate physical distancing, embodying the uneasy truce emerging over the course of a pandemic as we variously confront our relationship with ‘the other’.
(My thanks to the Nilimbik Council, VIC, for supporting this project)
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DANCING WITH INFINITY
This video responds to what I see as the growing burden of helplessness many of us carry in the face of the escalating evidence of climate change.
The slow appearance and disappearance of the head and shoulders of a woman entering and leaving the frame of the video provides a space free from the divisiveness of politics; a space where people are invited to acknowledge their emotions as they rise up; where acknowledgment can become the next step towards change.
Alex Khaskin – music
Jane Hebblewhite – performer
With thanks to NASA for sharing the audio of Voyager 2 as it passes by Jupiter
and to Sue Anderson for her support and generosity www.lynchpin.org.au)
This video was initiated under the auspices of Lynchpin, a privately funded residency program offered at the University of Tasmania, Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies.
ANTHROPOCENE
(excerpt from the full video)
Highly commended in the Now Contemporary Art Prize, Shoalhaven Regional Gallery, 2019.
Anthropocene is the name that has been given to describe our current geological age and dates from the commencement of significant human impact on the earth’s geology and ecosystems.
Music performed and composed by Linsey Pollak
Swimmers:
Will Smithers, George Smithers, Nia Sae-yang and Clara Kelleher
The full video 2 channel video can be seen on vimeo
https://vimeo.com/325097205
SCRIM
An image of Eve, from Albrecht Dürer’s painting Adam and Eve, is an allegory for the the idealised female nude. Footage of my own body is used as a means to physically engage with the threshold that separates the conscious from the unconscious, the known from the unknown – a dance that both reveals and withholds, engaging with notions of both sensuality and shame.
Jenny Pollak – photography and dance
(Finalist in the Naked and Nude Art Prize, Manning Regional Gallery, 2019)
THE PRICE OF COAL
Australia is currently the world’s largest exporter of coal despite incontrovertible evidence that coal fired power is a dirty and unsustainable technology.
The once pristine waterfall depicted in this installation has since died as a result of economic and political decisions which ignore the fundamental truth that a healthy environment is our economy.
This work is a metaphorical look at the death of a once pristine waterfall in the Newnes State Forest NSW from long wall mining.
(The Price of Coal is a site specific work designed for Tunnel 1 at the Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability where it was a finalist in the North Sydney Art Prize 2019.)
NIMBUS 2020
(nimbus |ˈnɪmbəs|
noun (pl.nimbi |-bʌɪ| or nimbuses)
1. a luminous cloud or a halo surrounding a supernatural being or a saint. a nimbus of power played around him, brighter than lightning.)
For a moment we
who briefly reflect
our futures
blink
and look up
and see the earth shifting
her fingers
and call it
nimbus
mark
‘mark’ is an exploration of the impulse to draw and to record the landscape in which we live. I was interested in the way that new technologies could record this act, not by evidence of a finished drawing, but by capturing the raw energy of the act itself.
The video (seen below as an installation) is displayed on an iPad which sits on a traditional wooden painters’ easel.
(Finalist in the Ravenswood Art Prize, 2020)
DANGEROUS SONG – BLACK
Live footage of performance at the Black Box Theatre, Nabour, QLD, by Bonnie Jenkins
Projected imagery by Jenny Pollak
Music composed and performed by Linsey Pollak and Lizzie O’Keefe.
www.dangerous song
DANGEROUS SONG – BLACK
Live footage of performance at the Black Box Theatre, Nabour, QLD, by Bonnie Jenkins
Projected imagery by Jenny Pollak)
Music composed and performed by Linsey Pollak and Lizzie O’Keefe.
www.dangerous song