un Projects is based on the unceded sovereign land and waters of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation; we pay our respects to their Elders past and present.
un Projects

You see these people They have nothing else to do, but pray

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Examining the artist as gawker; with consideration to the migrational history of Lebanese hawkers in Melbourne’s marketplace, Keiso and Peters consider the artistic interplay of production and spectatorship that amounts to a position of becoming entertainers of their own production loop. Here the lost labour movements condition of waiting for work necessitate a certain political idleness, where a reliance on a system of self delineation and discursive reflexivity allows the artist to access the self and its faculties. If I am to be subsumed by non-tangible parameters, I can structure my bricolage in order to subvert or further dissolve the I.

Artwork handing on wall. Black square with repeating red text forming the outline a circle: 'Power Process. Surrogate Activities'.
Three video stills looking through blinds. A tattooed, shirtless man hunched over on the street, people walking past.

Carmen-Sibha Keiso is an artist, writer and curator working in performance, video, and text. Alexandra Peters is a painter and sculptor situated within the field of expanded painting.