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Jill Orr

Jill Orr has delighted, shocked and moved audiences through her performance installations which she has presented internationally from the late nineteen seventies to now.  Her work was presented to international acclaim in the inaugural 2012 Venice International Performance Art Week, 2014 Bipolar Performance Art Meeting in Sopot, Poland and MAP Festival, Melaka, Malaysia in 2014. Her latest body of work, Antipodean Epic, was a highlight of Mildura Palimpsest Biennale in 2015. In 2016, the work was re-imagined for the Belo Horizonte Biennale, Brazil. jillorr.com.au
what artists think in Issue #10: The Many & The Few - Assembling the political
Jill Orr

Corporeal Politics

It is curious that LGBTI acceptance came before Indigenous recognition and I wonder if this is because Indigenous belonging to the land, that we have collectively taken possession of, is a deeper more threatening concept that challenges the very concept of whiteness that clings to power. Could this be a fear of reversed dispossession? Read more...
conversations in Issue #06: Body in the Raw. Nudity Today.
Phillip Adams, Jill Orr and Jessica Sabatini

Phillip Adams in conversation with Jill Orr

What went wrong?! Where did we go wrong with our naked politics? Read more...
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