Carolyn Craig - Becoming Penguin, 2024

Born in Australia, lives and works in Sydney.

Becoming Penguin Series uses parody and performance to unravel the affectual residue of embodied relations and systems of power. How can a subject orient itself in a world where perspectives of meaning are dissolving into a groundless moment? Craig kept feeling drawn to images of penguins huddling together against violent climatic conditions and felt herself becoming penguin in a residue moment of loss and gain. Craig performs this embodied confusion with props made of cardboard in a relation homage to the discard of capitalism and her adoration of the film ‘Dr Caligari’s Cabinet”.