Rebecca Jensen, Mechanisms so Kind, 2016, print installations. Photo by Danielle Fusco.
REBECCA JENSEN
Rebecca Jensen works with the community to develop an archive of their voices or “Community notices”. This project aims to notice the ‘every day’, by drawing out both the small and big distinctions that emerge between people who occupy the same space at the same time.
Over the weekends during the residency, Jensen invites participants to contribute a haiku to the project, utilising individual Chinese-style letterpresses. These contributions will be composed into an individual handheld letterpress and made into business card-sized prints which will be incorporated into an installation. As the residency unfolds, rows of these small prints will form a growing collective archive of everyday observations.
ARTIST BIO
Rebecca Jensen is an early career artist and curator from Perth, Western Australia. Jensen’s practice is multidisciplinary but generally labours along the slow processes of handset letterpress, embroidery and ceramics. She derives joy from these analogue processes which form meditative foils to the immediacy that characterizes our digital age.
Language is at the core of Jensen’s practice. At its most whimsical, Jensen's work uses text to explore the everyday through wry haikus, whilst in its more serious iterations, her work investigates social phenomenon in both the Australian and Mandarin speaking contexts and how these contexts entangle and contest.
