27 September – 11 October 2004
A common thread throughout Amy’s practice has been an interrogation into the boundaries set between the artwork, artist and audience. She is keen to explore social and relational aesthetic issues in art, examining how the audience can participate in the process of art-making.
Amy’s project Big Sister has grown out of her experience of going through the initial audition stages of the channel 4 programme Big Brother. For her residency at Chinese Arts Centre, Amy will replicate the ‘mock diary room’ inside the gallery space, with the gallery audience being summoned randomly by ‘Big Sister’ over the tannoy system, to enter into the cubicle. The footage of the person sitting, talking, inside the diary room would also be projected simultaneously elsewhere in the gallery. This project will highlight the lack of representation of Chinese people within the mainstream media, and, by naming the work ‘Big Sister’, subtly question the patriarchal nature of the mainstream media. It also explores issues surrounding notions of private space when they are in fact made public. Details can also be found at www.bbclesbian.co.uk
