RIGHT NOW!

RIGHT NOW! Is a participatory work involving the deployment of ballot boxes, with a specifically designed survey, asking visitors to respond to questions linked to the Australian Human Rights Commission Act. Contemporary feminisms cannot operate independently of an ethical position regarding social vulnerability and consequently this work aims to provoke awareness of positions of privilege outside of lived experiences of inequality to increase awareness, empathy and action across our various communities. The work was produced and presented for the national survey exhibition "Unfinished Business: Perspectives on Art and Feminism" at ACCA, Melbourne and discussed in the paper "Right Now: Feminism, Art and Activism" presented at the "Women, Art and Feminism in Australia" Symposium at the VCA, Melbourne.<p></p>