How much of ourselves do we disclose? How much do we withhold? Who is monitoring and assessing the discretion we use during levels of interface? The answers to these questions are of growing consequence, especially since the burgeoning of social media where the pressure to disclose has developed a near-inescapable gravity. Greater social connectivity presents the daunting responsibility of transparency, or at least the performance of.
For James Barth, a Meanjin-based artist who has been painting, printing and coding representations of herself for over a decade, these concerns go to the heart of a practice almost exclusively of burdensome.
