Macon Reed is a New York-based artist working in sculpture, installation, video, radio documentary, painting, and participatory projects. Motivated by evolving queer and intersectional feminist frameworks, their practice involves creating immersive sculptural environments that serve as public sites for dynamic inter-community conversation and transformative ritual. Her recent work includes the installation Eulogy For The Dyke Bar 2015, which revisits the legacy of dyke and lesbian bars, and has been exhibited at Wayfarers Gallery, New York; Pulse Art Fair, New York; AREA Gallery, Portland; CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco; and the Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco.
Jade Muratore is an artist, researcher and cultural producer working across performance, installation, and video. Jade is one of the founding and core members of the performance trio, Hissy Fit, and has exhibited works at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Performance Space, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Arts House, Campbelltown Arts Centre and Carriageworks. She is a PhD candidate at UNSW Art & Design completing a practice-based research project on temporally disruptive methodologies in contemporary performance and moving image practice.
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Presented in conjunction with 'Friendship as a Way of Life' at UNSW Galleries 8 May - 21 November 2020
Banner image: Macon Reed Eulogy for the Dyke Bar 2016. Installation and programming series. Installation view: UNSW Galleries, Sydney, 2020. Photo: Zan Wimberley
