Swedish artist Johanna Billing produced a survey of recent projects, video and performances for ACCA in this premier showing of the artist in Australia.
Much of Billing’s work centers on the dynamics of group conduct, and the relationship of the individual to the group, observing that individual freedoms and actions are directed by physical surroundings and peer pressures. Billing’s films also expose the complicated relationship of private and public, inside and exterior. Through her filmed interactions, Billing often addresses political climates and cultural specificities, but more importantly she adapts her filmmaking as a fictive space to examine actual and contrived events and how that filmed compression illuminates their overlap.
Billing’s works move between staged and found choreographies. At the centre of her practice is an investigation of the ways in which individuals and groups behave: singularly or as communities, and an observation that, in either instance, life is made up of encoded, tiny movements, that glue things together or dislocate our common expectations. Billing gives emphasis to these ritualized motivations by isolating the observation of action away from the normalizing anchors of spoken narratives and ambient sounds.
Commissioning Curator: Juliana Engberg
Curator: Hannah Mathews
Publication
Johanna Billing: Tiny Movements
In the Press
9 July, Entertainment Depot, Johanna Billing exhibition – You Don't Love Me Yet
5 September, The Age, Around the galleries
17 September, ArtsHub, Tiny Movements: ACCA
23 September, The Age, Grabbing our attention
Other Material
Public & Education Programs
Education Kit
