Melbourne-based artist Leili’s first solo show, Chahar Bagh, is as much an exercise in solidifying identity as it is uncovering the elusive rewards of being neither here nor there.
The 4th wall is a theatre term for the invisible wall between performers and the audience. When performers speak directly to the audience it’s considered breaking the 4th wall. As the sociologist Erving Goffman’s dramaturgy suggests, we are constantly performing our identities. The interviews on this page were an attempt to enquire beyond the performativity of self.
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Melbourne-based artist Leili’s first solo show, Chahar Bagh, is as much an exercise in solidifying identity as it is uncovering the elusive rewards of being neither here nor there.
(First published in Archer Magazine 12/10/19) Alison Bennett is a neuroqueer artist, activist, and academic that explores the complex world of autistic embodiment and neuroqueer skin.
(Abridged version published in The Conversation 03/07/2019) The Immigration Museum’s new exhibit, Our Bodies, Our Voices, Our Marks, explores the contemporary form of Polynesia’s Tatau alongside the tattoo tradition of Japanese irezumi.
(Published in DAZED & CONFUSED, 13/12/17) I speak to the L.A artist, Roxx, about MoMA's recent exhibition, Items: Is Fashion Modern?
Read extracts from my articles featured in FOREVER MORE
(Published in Skin Deep UK) Love Shakthi Om, to be launched in the first week of May, will produce limited works of art to be sold with profits donated to charity.
(VICE online 25/04/17) This is one of the most brutal experiences one can imagine in the field of tattooing, where wills are either broken or solidified. This is the Brutal Black Project, and they’ll “ruin your life”.
Alice Snape, the editor of Things&Ink, talks about her journey as an independent publisher of a female-friendly tattoo culture publication.
(INKED magazine, issue 39) On February 26th, I presented an exhibition of tattooed silicone hands and sheets at Melbourne's Neon Parlour.
(Things & Ink, issue 10, republished in INKED magazine, issue 31) "If taxidermy is made into art for art’s sake, there is still the beauty and appreciation of the animal and the art, so it really isn’t for nothing."
(Modern Farmer, 01/05/2014. Republished in Melbourne Permanent, issue 1) "Maybe it was Little Minnesota, the Texas Tattooed Pig, who finally made the most sincere statement of the night when he urinated in his plastic pigsty."