Amelia Saul is a video artist and writer based in New York. Saul writes scripts that become videos, performances and objects. The resulting hybrid work explores mirroring and power-play, posturing and humor, and patterns of accord and discord that accumulate into social landscape. Although not overtly political, loaded histories come up just as they would in any conversation, particularly the Native American experience, European Fascism, and the conservative backlash that engendered the current political climate. Her work looks at large groups as single characters, and single characters in terms of the many people speaking through them. Multiplicity extends to discordant conceptions of time: subjectively in each character, and also through narrative or formal composition. orn and raised in Seattle, Saul attended New York University for her BFA (2005) and MFA (2010). In 2011, she performed with Claude Wampler at The Kitchen and in the Vilnius Triennial, 2013. She has had solo shows at MomentaArt, Brooklyn, and The Performing Garage, New York City. She has been a resident at Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education, Bronx, Banciao435, Taiwan, ‘Dust’, Paris, The ‘Jake’ at the University of Washington, and Yaddo, New York. Her work is currently on view at the University of Washington’s Jacob Lawrence Gallery.

Date: Tuesday, 15 March 2021 6.00pm-7.30pm

Venue: Art Building Auditorium Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) Sturt Street Southbank Building 877 on campus maps

For further information or to RSVP please contact Professor Anne Dunlop at anne.dunlop@unimelb.edu.au