Georgia Lucy

Hotel UTAS TCOTA

Georgia Lucy, Hotel UTAS TCOTA, 2016, video of performance / Installation

This is a video from a performance and installation work in the RAMP gallery at The Tasmanian College of the arts in Hobart. For two weeks I lived in a hotel room that I set in the space. This was in response to serious conversations at the time in 2016 that the campus would soon be closed in order to convert the building into a hotel. There was no Plan B for a new site for the art school. This made many of the students feel stressed and redundant. The school’s access time ended at 10pm. I managed to dodge eviction under the guise of a reservation. After the fourth night I was eventually evicted by the police. The head of the art school features in the film also. I had never met him but he is seen here watching me sleeping. Gentrification is the general theme in these scenes.

In the installation there was a flat screen that showed a video I made called Scones Instead of Roses which is an absurd abstract parody on two commercial reality tv shows;The Bachelor and Big Brother. It featured the actual little brother of Tasmanian bachelor contestant Sam Wood. It was on loop for the duration of the hotel stay.

4 Stills from Video work, Hotel UTAS TCOTA 2016

Scones Instead of Roses

Contextualise me. Scones instead of Roses features me as a contestant on an imagined reality show called The Little Brother Of The Bachelor. If he likes you then instead of roses, he gives you scones with jam and cream on them. My friend was seeing the batchie’s brother at the time. This is what happened.

Scones Instead Of Roses, Georgia Lucy, video, 2015