Bianca Hester - Australian Multidisciplinary Artist
Movements and Styles: Sculpture, Performance Art, Intervention Art, Installation Art, Conceptual Art, Happenings, Video Art, Publications
Born: 1975, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Hester's work focusses on spatial and sculptural interventions that deal with contested sites and social constructs. Her practice is experimental in approach, and highly collaborative and multidisciplinary artist working with a range of artists and other as well as material's that enable and accentuate the meaning of her works.
Her work and practice resonates with me in the areas of:
* working critically in contested sites - poetics and politics of space
* ethics of collaborative environment
* physicality and sensing yourself and how you feel in a space - navigating space and yourself within it
* politics of materiality
* participant engagement, interlocutors
* expansive experimental approaches to wok in public space
For me it draws attention to space and how you navigate, be within and exit. When I have experienced her works they elicit a sense of purposefully awkward adult playgrounds with deep theoretical contexts of which I feel I may never understand. Accessibility is something that Is always discussed when experiencing Hester's work and is always in consideration in my practice.
Please leave these windows open overnight to enable the fans to draw in cool air during the early hours of the morning, 2010
This exhibition was like an experiment hosted by ACCA. It included a series of staged encounters between materials, objects, people, spaces and also a horse that came into the space on Saturday's.
Some of the compositions were of objects to be used, or objects for action, in which audiences could touch and move, and others were staged 'happenings' that were experienced by audiences.
a world, fully accessible by no living being, 2011
This project had three elements:
* a series of propositions for engaging the urban environment at location and in print
* an architectural intervention - a cinder-block wall built at Federation Square
* printed broadsheet - various locations in Melbourne
Audiences could witness (passive) or action (participate) in a series of provocations printed in the broadsheet at each of the sites of the architectural interventions.
It can be seen as a series of actions/approaches to elicit exploration into how the spaces are constructed, cultivated, regulated and negotiated.