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Zanny Begg | These Stories Will be Different

Summary

A UNSW Galleries and Museums & Galleries of NSW touring exhibition

Start Date

Dec 9, 2022

End Date

Jan 28, 2023

Venue

Plimsoll Gallery



These Stories Will be Different brings together three of the artist’s most significant video installations, including The City of Ladies (with Elise McLeod) 2017, The Beehive 2018, and Stories of Kannagi 2019. Between them, these works reimagine a medieval feminist utopia, probe the unsolved murder of a high-profile anti-gentrification campaigner and explore the connections between love, loss, and language in diasporic communities in Australia.


The videos tell stories, but they also challenge the politics of storytelling itself. Drawing on ancient literary traditions, non-linear timeframes, and computer-generated randomisation, Zanny Begg invites you to see the world differently.


A UNSW Galleries and Museums & Galleries of NSW touring exhibition. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

GALLERY OPENING HOURS

Saturday 10 December - Saturday 28 January 2023
11am – 4pm Tuesdays – Saturdays
Closed Sundays, Mondays and public holidays

Additional summer hours
closed between: 23 Dec 2022 – 3 Jan 2023, reopening Wed 4 Jan

Artist talk:
Saturday 28 January 2023
11:00 - 12:30 pm


Zanny Begg

Zanny Begg is an artist and film maker living in Bulli, on Dharawal land. She uses film, drawing and installation to explore hidden and contested histories, and examines different ways in which we can live and exist in the world. Through her practice, Begg has explored macro-political themes such as alter-globalisation protests, and micro-political worlds, such as children in maximum-security prison.

Begg was the recipient of the 66th Blake Prize Established Artist Residency 2021, and one of six artists selected for the ACCA Open Commission in 2020. She was the winner of the inaugural ACMI and Artbank film commission in 2018, the recipient of both the Incinerator Art Award and Terrance and Lynnette Fern Cite Residency, Paris in 2016, and was selected by Werner Herzog to attend the Rogue Film School in 2015.

Begg has a PhD in Art Theory, with a focus on the socially engaged art that emerged between the 1999 World Trade Organisation Protests in Seattle and the Global Financial Crisis in 2008. She was the Director of Tin Sheds Gallery within the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney (2010-2014), and a lecturer at UNSW Art and Design (2014-2020), where she created a unit on Socially Engaged Art.

Recent film works include Magic Mountains (2020), Stories of Kannagi (2020), The Beehive (2018), The City of Ladies (with Elise McLeod) (2018), The Bullwhip Effect (2017), 1001 Nights in Fairfield (2015), and Doing Time (2014). Begg’s work is held in numerous public and private art collections such as the Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Australian Centre for the Moving Image; Artbank; Queensland University Art Collection; Campbelltown Arts Centre; Cruthers Collection of Womens Art, The University of Western Australia; The Neuer Berliner Kunstverien, Germany; and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Spain.

Zanny Begg, The City of Ladies (still) 2017. Co-directed with Elise McLeod. Image courtesy of the artist

Image credit: Zanny Begg, The City of Ladies (still) 2017. Co-directed with Elise McLeod. Image courtesy of the artist

Zanny Begg, Stories of Kannagi (still) 2019. Image courtesy of the artistImage Credit: Zanny Begg, Stories of Kannagi (still) 2019. Image courtesy of the artist



Plimsoll Gallery Manager: Jane Barlow
Install team: Anna Eden, Josh Prouse and Lili Pearson