Projection Sculpture and Sound - Pressing Topics

Pressing Topics is a series of multi media projection/mapping, sculpture, digital collage, video art, instrument design and sound art works that uses the iron, as the iconic symbol of domestic labour, to explore the transglobal workforce behind the production of domestic technology and the gendered and racialised nature of the industries.

Projection Sculpture and Digital Video Collage

Strike - Projection, sculpture, lighting.

‘They burn with a strange fury’ projection and sculpture

‘Domestic Body’, digital photographic and video collage

Pressing Topics- was presented at NorthSite Contemporary Arts, Cairns from December 12th 2022 to January 28th 2023.

Artist – Melania Jack

The conceptual framework of the visual elements of this project employs a glitch

feminism lens to explore themes of gender socialisation, equality and labour. Imagery

drawn from popular culture and social media is sampled and collaged to explore these

themes. Projection is used to create windows into the items (tea towels, irons, ironing

boards) so that the unseen labour is revealed.