Windsor Place

Musical Artist

MY DISCO

MY DISCO formed in 2003 between long-term collaborators Rohan Rebeiro, Benjamin Andrews and Liam Andrews, who are renowned for their refined minimalist approach to dark and heavy instrumentation.

Visual Artist

Kay Abude is a multidisciplinary artist whose creative practice engages many different forms of making, including sculpture, large-scale installation, performance, photography and silk-screen printing to articulate a nuanced fascination with the nature of labour.

Kay Abude’s new project, '(DON’T) BE AN ARTIST', is particularly complex. It involves the production of five billboards, each of which is to be displayed for one week on the outside of the lavish Hotel Windsor in Naarm Melbourne.
Each billboard will feature a different fabric-bound slogan: ‘(DON’T) BE AN ARTIST’, ‘FOR LOVE OR MONEY’, ‘LEARN TO LOVE WHAT MAKES YOU A LIVING’, ‘MONEY IS GOD’, ‘SOME PEOPLE ARE SO POOR ALL THEY HAVE IS MONEY’. The first four billboards will show people wearing garments made by Abude, including the artist herself and a series of workers.
The final billboard, 'SOME PEOPLE ARE SO POOR, ALL THEY HAVE IS MONEY', will feature no people at all. Abude will install each billboard, introducing action into an otherwise image-based project. Starting from the second week, she will don a garment associated with the previous week’s campaign. Her live body will speak to those pasted on to the façade of the hotel in facsimile. These images depict week one, '(DON'T) BE AN ARTIST.

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