Poetry and film are set in orbit in the new media work of Sheena Colquhoun. In recent years she has enriched her readings and curiously re-contextualised the accompanying video borrowed from expired popular culture, CCTV footage or photo-montage of found imagery. ‘Spherical Bastards’ (titled after Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky) is a single channel video essay, a layered constellation of symbols and words, images and poetry. It considers the “contradictory stance of being at once ground-breaking and a hindrance, of being at once in the stars and inside a body,” says the artist.

Sheena Colquhoun, Spherical Bastards, 2016, digital video still. Courtesy the artist and Bus Projects, Melbourne
Bus Projects
10 May to 3 June, 2017
Melbourne