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A Line in the Sea

Leyla Stevens

West Space at Collingwood Yards
Saturday 23 JanuarySunday 7 March

A Line in the Sea is a moving-image work by Leyla Stevens that contests the construction of Bali as an island paradise within the Australian imagination. The multi-channel video is a feminist retelling of a seventies Australian cult surf-film that popularised Bali as a tourist destination. The lush, colour-saturated imagery directly references the footage of Australian male surfers as they ‘discover’ south Bali’s coastlines, less than a decade following Indonesia’s anti-communist killings that claimed 80,000 lives in Bali alone. Using speculative and documentary modes of filmmaking, the work explores the spectral trace of Bali’s political violence and looks at the ways the Australian surfer romance of wiped the island clean of past atrocities.

Location

West Space at Collingwood Yards
Enter via 30a Perry St, Collingwood, VIC

Date

Saturday 23 JanuarySunday 7 March

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A Line in the Sea

Leyla Stevens

West Space at Collingwood Yards
Saturday 23 JanuarySunday 7 March

A Line in the Sea is a moving-image work by Leyla Stevens that contests the construction of Bali as an island paradise within the Australian imagination. The multi-channel video is a feminist retelling of a seventies Australian cult surf-film that popularised Bali as a tourist destination. The lush, colour-saturated imagery directly references the footage of Australian male surfers as they ‘discover’ south Bali’s coastlines, less than a decade following Indonesia’s anti-communist killings that claimed 80,000 lives in Bali alone. Using speculative and documentary modes of filmmaking, the work explores the spectral trace of Bali’s political violence and looks at the ways the Australian surfer romance of wiped the island clean of past atrocities.

Location

West Space at Collingwood Yards
Enter via 30a Perry St, Collingwood, VIC

Date

Saturday 23 JanuarySunday 7 March

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