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| Sarah Ong is a Chinese-Malaysian, Vietnamese-Cambodian Australian emerging artist living in the unceded land of the Bidjigal people in Sydney's
Southwest. Through her artistic practice of sculpture and performance,
Sarah Ong investigates effort and labour and address the world's economic
issues, which affect both art and everyone's way of living. Sarah's practice
is an exploration of how effort and labour are valued, utilising organic
materials to reflect on the art world and our way of living. She is informed
by several areas of interest conceptually, including vernacular architecture,
industrial design and cognitive psychology. @lilies_in_the_mud |
| Making with bamboo |
Sarah Ong, Making with bamboo, 2024, performance (30mins), bamboo, fish tub and the body. Making with Bamboo is intended to reject the traditional expectations of art by having the focus of the sculptures be on the creation and labour process, rather than the final aesthetic form. The performativity of labour is in addition reflective of mass production, capitalism and the dehumanisation of creativity in the current scape of the world. The heart of the artwork is informed by the efforts and labour enacted by ethnic migrants, specifically the artist's parents, and the burden to take on her parent's legacy in her art practice and way of living. The performance utilises the body and bamboo, a plant charged with socio-cultural influence, to explore how organic materials are valued and how they might reflect our way of living. |