Zanny Begg '18
Zanny Begg is a Sydney based artist whose work focuses on political activism and community. Her work is often collaborative inviting engagement with key themes such as resilience, financial disobedience and unthinking borders. Zanny has an experimental and research driven practice that works across film, performance, installation, activism and drawing. Zanny’s exhibitions include The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2017; Sharjah Biennale, 2011; Istanbul Biennale, 2009.
Films
- Anubumin20’
On the tiny Pacific island Nauru phosphate has been mined since 1906. When phosphate extraction came to a stop in the 1980s, Nauru was bankrupt and 80 percent of the land area uninhabitable. Nauru became a prime money-laundering haven. After the disappearance of soil and money, today Nauru involves in the “disappearance of people” – housing one of Australia’s offshore refugee detention centres. Four whistleblowers describe the institutionalised human rights violations in the offshore detention.
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