Bethany J Fellows: December 2007

Wednesday, 5 December 2007

Trainer/Choreographer/Fight Sequencer Announced

Quiet on the old Art front lately, tho Bethany's Coburg Lake project seems to be taking off with the announcement today that Akean Lewinski has been confirmed as her trainer.

Here's what the artist had to say:

"For the life of me I could not come up with a plot for my Coburg Lake project & have decided to make the art equivalent of an ACTION FILM. It involves guns and firecrackers and Chuck Norris round house kicks and flaming hoops. There is absolutely no plot."
"Mr Lewinski was the natural choice, we really enjoyed working with each other on Bethany J. Fellows V. Helen Hunt. The training for this project will be less athletic and more a series of controlled stress situations. I am very excited and feel safe in Akean's hands."

Plotless art, how postmodern?! And there are rumours that you are going to branded with red hot steel?

"I am prepared to do this, yes."

About the Artist

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Bethany J. Fellows (born Tucson, Arizona 1983) is a Melbourne based artist. She graduated with a BFA from the University of Newcastle (2004) and recently completed her honours at Monash University (2010). Her practice is often participatory and usually cited in public and non-traditional space. Gift giving is used in her arts practice to emphasise the importance of relationships with people and place, as a cultural critique and as a metaphorical device for various things. Her work involves fleeting exchanges with others and frequently employs humour and food to highlight and exploit the tension of hospitable interactions with people and the unknown.