West Projections Festival

12/09/2020

Thanks for your participation in West Projections 2020!

It was sure a different experience than we have grown accustomed to and we hope you enjoyed it for all it was.

Huge thanks to our sponsors, incredible returning artists and first time student artists for their works and reactions they evoked.

Until next time, be safe, be well and never get down to the last roll of TP ever again or you may just have to dance fight your way out of it!

West Projections x

JONATHAN HOMSEY
CACA-CAPITALISMO

📸: Shannon May Powell

10/09/2020

Today is your last chance to have your say!

Jump across and complete a short survey (link below) to let us know how you found West Projections 2020.

https://forms.gle/tpTXXQFf6R1PJU4Q8

07/09/2020

We’re super chuffed we could bring an at home West Projections Festival to you this year and we’d love to hear all about your experience!

Was the site easy to navigate? Did the theme shine for you? What works resonated with you? Did you devour all on offer?

Link to short survey below

Pictured:
Jody Haines
Yet my mouth is bound silent with carbon and cloth (2020)

https://forms.gle/tpTXXQFf6R1PJU4Q8

29/08/2020

FINAL DAY FOR WEST PROJECTIONS 2020!!

Thanks for getting behind our online festival, it’s been a pleasure to present such an amazing quality (and quantity) of content for you to devour safely and socially distanced at home.

Have you embraced all the new and retrospective works from this years artists?
Listened to the artist interviews?
Watched back the opening night forum ‘between the works’?

Be sure you enjoy it all before it’s a mere memory!

West Projections 2020 is proudly sponsored by Victoria University, Maribyrnong City Council and Urban Screens.

https://westprojections.com/

29/08/2020

WEST PROJECTIONS ONLINE FESTIVAL
** LAST DAYS **

PAOLA BALLA
THE MOK MOK, TAMMY & PATSY SLIDE SHOW

Mok Mok is a woman; both spiritual and physical, powerful, free and fearless. Mok Mok stories were told to the artist as a child, whose wildness and power fascinated.

Mok Mok was written about by Aunty Margaret Lilardia Tucker in her 1977 autobiography, ‘If Everyone Cared’.

The artist was gifted a signed copy belonging to her grandmother by her mother Margie at the start of her PhD, the same copy she read as a child returned to in her and inspired the outcomes of the artist’s PhD research project, Disrupting Artistic Terra Nullius: The Ways that First Nations Women in Art and Community Speak blak to the Colony and Patriarchy.

https://westprojections.com/paola

29/08/2020

WEST PROJECTIONS ONLINE FESTIVAL
** LAST DAYS **

ROBERTA RICH
ARREST

Arrest, was born from exploring the idea of glitch and attempting to glitch images that disturbed the artist. Through a process of ‘manual’ glitching, the aim was to arrest the complacency towards the erasure of Black bodies in this image, establishing new momentum.

https://westprojections.com/roberta

27/08/2020

WEST PROJECTIONS ONLINE FESTIVAL
Extended until August 30 • 2020

STUDENT WORK FROM THE DIPLOMA OF VISUAL ARTS AND THE CERTIFICATE IV IN DESIGN at Victoria University Polytechnic.

[Cooper Brites - Untitled]

These selected projects were undertaken in two different units, Interactives and Video Art, and were designed to be viewed through the Artivive App (easy to follow steps up on the website) allow the App to “trigger” the Augmented Reality (AR) artworks and make magic happen!

Three days left - have you experienced all West Projections 2020 has on offer?

https://westprojections.com/vu-students

27/08/2020

Have you experienced Jonathan Homsey’s Caca-Capitalismo yet?

Thanks for the kind words Witness Performance! ✨

Witness Performance Absurd pleasures: Caca-Capitalismo

27/08/2020

Watch ‘between the work’ opening night forum online now!

As with everything West Projections 2020 - see the website for all the details and to view all works and so much more!

WEST PROJECTIONS ONLINE FESTIVAL

Extended until August 30 • 2020.

25/08/2020

WEST PROJECTIONS ONLINE FESTIVAL

Extended until August 30 • 2020
[view works, listen to artist interviews and more via the website]

JESS DUBBLU & SHAE ROOKE
LAND LINE

Do you want to play a game?

Shae and Jess live a block apart, in the before-times they would see each other almost every day. As lockdown continued, they dreamed of connecting their households with a tin can telephone, the string conducting the voices’ vibrations, creating a physical connection to a person you cannot touch.

Land Line reacts to being painfully close to normality, both physically and figuratively, but just out of reach.

https://westprojections.com/shae-jess

24/08/2020

WEST PROJECTIONS ONLINE FESTIVAL

Extended until August 30 • 2020
[view works online via website]

JONATHAN HOMSEY
CACA-CAPITALISMO

A joyful work for and of the times, Caca-Capitalismo is a comical meditation on our internal monologues directly inspired by the fight for resources driven by capitalism and hoarding. Inspired by real life Karen stories during COVID-19, this accessible fotonovela takes the absurdity of ignorance and cranks the volume up.

📸: Shannon May Powell

https://westprojections.com/

24/08/2020

WEST PROJECTIONS ONLINE FESTIVAL

Extended until August 30 • 2020
[view works and opening night forum via website - link below]

ALISON BENNETT
TURNING IN

2020 finds the artist inside their house, unable to go outside due to smoke pollution from momentous bushfires over summer and a global viral pandemic through winter.
Both are effects of climate change driven by the anthropocene.

https://westprojections.com/