University of Tasmania, Australia

Opens: 23 May, 5pm – 7pm

Animal Factories: Yvette Watt

The “Animal Factories” series pursues an ongoing interest in the role of art in communicating issues surrounding the ethics of human-animal relationships in regards to ‘farm’ animals. The works in this series consist of large-scale documentary photographs taken of the outside of large-scale factory farms of the type that intensively house chickens and pigs. The images aim to capture the ‘concentration camp’ style layout of these industrial farms, with the near total absence of animals in the imagery serving to highlight the hidden and secretive nature of the unnatural and restricted environment endured by the animals housed inside the windowless sheds.

Wind/ing: Anita Bacic

“Wind/ing” is a result of Anita Bacic’s research into simple analogue moving image devices and animations, such as zoetropes, praxinoscopes and flipbooks. Bacic combines domestic and industrial references with a mechanism borrowed from these early moving image devices. The imagery used in the animated objects is drawn from stories and symbols expressed in different cultures via legends and stories. “Wind/ing” aims to consider an alternate way of making and seeing things. Bacic’s practice centres on exploring works that question our perceptions of our constructed environments and narratives.

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