bekconroy

Tag: installation

  • The Iron Lady

    The Iron Lady

    The Iron Lady is an experimental salon and stealth performance work which starts from the premise that finance and the ‘business model’ is an experimental playground that peddles in speculation, fiction, and value creation.

    Adopting the grammar of finance and mimetic strategies, Iron Lady attempts to intervene in the fictional world of money-making through a business shirt-ironing venture for the central business district.

    The ‘Iron Lady’ is a weaponised body that makes explicit the invisible labour of women that drive the economy. As she attempts to conceal her intentions within the deceptively humble laundry service, she performs her trade as part espionage, part sex work, and part domestic servitude.

    Hybrid pop-up shop, participatory exchange, dating and counseling service and artisanal salon, the Iron Lady will function to extract useful information about the economy and experiment with currency and trade.

    Lead Artist: Rebecca Conroy
    Collaborators: Emma Price and Lucky Price
    Producers: Performance Art Development Agency
    Presenters: VitalStatistix
    Creative Development 30 Oct – 6 Nov 2017
    First stage Iteration 6 – 22 November 2017 (Adelaide)

    Commissioned by PADA and VitalStatistix (SA)
    http://vitalstatistix.com.au/projects/iron-lady/

    Iron Lady is a comedic intervention into the finance district by an artist armed with an ironing board.

  • Yurt Empire

    Yurt Empire

    Yurt Empire is a rogue housing project and site specific encounter.

    Yurt Empire was an attempt to ART-ifically graft and insert an artist’s colony and economy onto an apparent ‘wasteland’. It was also a live art work containing a growing number of sustainable and unsustainable situations; A durational performance based installation about housing and living, and a discursive space exploring the cultural commons, urban renewal and a remix of permaculture design.
    
    Yurt Empire brought together 23 artists to respond to the simplicity of the basic yurt design and the contested history and notions of “Wastelands” as the complicated lens through which to explore urban renewal, land value, and affordable housing motifs in Australia, and specifically Sydney. This bold and adventurous work irreverently engages the nightmare of the “little Aussie Dream” home, as Sydney rises to become the second least affordable city in the world.
    
    Artists: Rudy Ardianto, Heidi Axelsen, Zanny Begg, Clare Britton, Rebecca Conroy, Alexandra Crosby, Chris Fox, Gawaa Ganbold, Jennifer Hamilton, Dave Harris, Katie Hepworth, Craig Johnson, Hugo Moline, Matt Prest, Adriano Pupilli, Sumugan Sivanesan, Phoebe Torzillo, Pia van Gelder, Anique Vered, Tessa Zettel.

    Director: Rebecca Conroy
    Development: February – September 2013
    Presentation: April, 2014