Zanny Begg | These Stories Will be Different
30/01/2022 - 05/05/2024
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Zanny Begg Stories of Kannagi (still) , 2019- Materials
- single channel HD video
- Dimensions
- 15 mins
- Image Credit
- Image courtesy of the artist
About the exhibition
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.
Read more about the exhibition HERE
About the artists
Zanny Begg is an award-winning artist and film-maker whose work has been widely exhibited in Australia and around the world including in various biennials and exhibitions. She is the 2017 recipient of the inaugural ACMI and Artbank film commission, the 2016 winner of the Incinerator Art Award, Art for Social Change, and the 2016 winner of the Terrence and Lynnette Fern Cite Residency Paris and has been selected for the Melbourne International Film Festival, the Antenna Documentary Festival and Soho Film Festival (NY). She was included in the 2017 iteration of The National at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia with her collaborative work (with Elise Mcleod) The City of Ladies.
Born in 1972 in Melbourne and now living in Bulli, near Sydney, Begg’s practice, which is often collaborative, incorporates film, drawing and installation, with a particular interest in exploring hidden or contested histories. Zanny’s work uses humour, understated drawings and found cultural artefacts to explore themes of gender, activism and migration and the ways in which we can live and be in the world differently. This has included working with macro-political themes, such as globalisation protests, and in micro-political worlds, such as with children in prison.
Zanny has a PhD in Art Theory and is a lecturer at UNSW Art + Design and is on the Artist Advisory Board for the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
Touring Venues
and Dates
- Redland Art Gallery (QLD) 30/01/2022 - 13/03/2022
- Shoalhaven Regional Gallery (NSW) 02/04/2022 - 28/05/2022
- Devonport Regional Gallery (TAS) 04/06/2022 - 09/07/2022
- Wagga Wagga Art Gallery (NSW) 23/07/2022 - 18/09/2022
- Plimsoll Gallery (TAS) 10/12/2022 - 29/01/2023
- Tamworth Regional Gallery (NSW) 11/02/2023 - 02/04/2023
- Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery (VIC) 29/04/2023 - 12/06/2023
- Artspace Mackay (QLD) 19/08/2023 - 12/11/2023
- Goldfields Arts Centre (WA) 24/11/2023 - 02/02/2024
- Glasshouse Regional Gallery (NSW) 25/03/2024 - 05/05/2024
Partners
A UNSW Galleries and Museums & Galleries of NSW touring exhibition.
