eleanor j jackson
  • Eleanor Jackson is a Filipino Australian poet,
    performer, arts producer, cyclist, writer, gal
    about town, feminist, freewheeler, and
    friend. One day, she is going to be an
    ideas curator. Which basically
    means, she will tell you
    exactly what she thinks.
    Until then, you’ll have
    to read between
    the lines.

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Now You See Me

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The interactive work, Now You See Me, is a critical look at the rhetoric of acceptance and media-friendly nature of the contemporary LGBTIA Pride movement, and an insight into the tenderness of strange-ness and contempt for familiarity.

Taking a titular cue from Karolina Bregula’s project Let Them See Us, which is emblematic of ongoing themes of representation and visibility in contemporary queer visual art, the piece takes a deliberate step towards “unseeing”, the obscured or misinterpreted view.

In doing so, it asks – with sorrow rather than judgement – if the rainbow visibility of Pride movements and temporary media luminosity have contributed as much to creating a society of acceptance as we may like to imagine.

Title: Now You See Me
Author: Eleanor Jackson
Duration: 2 hours
Details: 6 poem suite, individual performances
Premiered: Exist ARI with Metro Arts: Friday Nights, 2014

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