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Beth Dillon 'Some Spaces Between Us' (still) 2017. Digital video. Image courtesy: the artist
Exhibition

Beth Dillon: Been There, Done That

Beth Dillon: Been There, Done That
  • When 29 Sep - 3 Nov 2018
  • Where
    UNSW Galleries
  • Address
    CNR OXFORD ST & GREENS RD PADDINGTON NSW 2021
  • Hours
    TUES TO SAT, 10AM–5PM
  • Phone
    +61 2 8936 0888

How is the nomadic artist implicated in the promises and paradoxes of global mobility?

Through site-specific and travel-led processes, Beth Dillon's practice inhabits tensions between heroic projections of mobility as a tool of individual transformation, freedom and resistance, and the concrete administrative, legal, political, economic and cultural conditions that shape the movements of contemporary travellers.

Using materials gathered through the lived experience of international residency programs, long-distance walks, and cross-border romance, Dillon plays with the contradictions and collusions of the nomadic artist in an age of globalisation. Through video installation, photography and digital collage, Dillon combines elements of humour, role-playing and performative intervention to stage both the pleasures and frustrations, the possibilities and limitations, of nomadism as an artistic strategy and lifestyle.

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Beth Dillion This is all going to be worth something, someday 2018. Installation view, 'Been there, done that', UNSW Gallleries, 2018. Photograph: Sliversalt Photography
 
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Beth Dillion This is all going to be worth something, someday 2018. Installation view, 'Been there, done that', UNSW Gallleries, 2018. Photograph: Sliversalt Photography

 
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Beth Dillion Some spaces between us 2017. Installation view, 'Been there, done that', UNSW Gallleries, 2018. Photograph: Sliversalt Photography

 
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Beth Dillion When should we realise this scene? 2016–18. Installation view, 'Been there, done that', UNSW Gallleries, 2018. Photograph: Sliversalt Photography