MOVING IMAGE
In 2020, the world fundamentally changed. At the start of the year we experienced catastrophic bushfires that burned an estimated 18.6 million hectares of Australia and killed three billion animals. The global Covid-19 pandemic radically altered the way we live our lives driving lockdowns and border closures across the globe. And we also saw a flood of grief around the world through the Black Lives Matter protests following the death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man killed by police in Minneapolis.
Gold Coast-based creative Hannah Brontë, a DJ, doula and video artist, created her work (often shortenedat a time before the year that changed everything. was dreamt up in 2017, a post-apocalyptic music video that takes place in a fantasy future. The work is crafted from drone footage and stock imagery of mining and natural destruction, with a sensory hip-hop performance embodied by an all-female Black cast, many of who also identify as queer.
