This Metro Arts residency project coincided with the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. The work was therefore produced in isolation and with limited access to materials. Foregoing my original plan to produce large scale photographic works during the residency, I undertook the challenge of working with moving-image. This three minute artwork responds directly to COVID through manipulating and combining images of domestic television screens and their mediation of the crisis. The work captures the inward gaze of isolation alongside a restless and insistent gaze outward via screens: scrolling, switching and processing a constant stream of media. Screens that became a source of connection and disconnection. The work is a snapshot into the uncertainty that was the unfolding present in May and June 2020 and is also a reflection on the anxiety that accompanied it.
The work was also shown at the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Sydney, 31 October – 11 December 2020.