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Linda DementLINDA DEMENT has worked in film, video and photo-media since 1984. She is one of the first Australian artists to explore feminist reading and use of technology. In her work, Dement has used striking, confronting still and animated images, combined with texts sourced from personal diaries, philosophical, scientific and medical writing, and embellished with sound grabs of intimate expressions. "Dement's gift is to turn polymorphous perversity to aesthetic ends, let it run free and enjoy itself. The sacred and the savage, sexuality and abuse, are her private square of opposition." – George Alexander, Art Monthly On Track LINDA DEMENT's new collaborative project is a software driven, mechanised, interactive installation comprised of an ordinary household mop moved by overly powerful, industrial motors, through buckets of strange substances, creating a slippery mess in intricately choreographed ways. The work looks at a common human tendency; in attempting to solve one problem, we create another; trying to mend, we damage; eradicating one pest we create a new one. Processes begin, propagate and culminate, calling forth new cycles, often to clean up after the mess that the prior process has so sophisticatedly invested resources in. For more information visit http://www.dement.org/testing/index.htm |