Artist statement: Digital technology allows for possibilities of scale and composition not available to the ‘found photography’ of inaccessible analogue archives, now rediscovered by digitisation. ‘At the house’ spatialises the movement and force of protest/energy of people power (in this case a 1981 demonstration on women’s services and domestic violence at Old Parliament House) that continues to activate for change in the streets of the world.
Composed in 2019 and 2020, the ocular-shaped ‘action sequence’/storyboard extends the dynamic form of the enlarged ‘proof sheet’. It looks forward toward its audience, and is simultaneously looked at (by new audiences and by the security officers within the composition, seen photographing the protestors).
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