Dominic AllenHistory43 weeks 1 day artist infoDominic Allen Dominic is a Melbourne artist and filmmaker committed to art that stimulates public engagement in issues of social justice and globalization. In 2004 Dominic directed The Scarab Window, a large scale public art event in Fitzroy, Melbourne which showcased a broad range of media on a wall the size of a giant billboard, challenging preconceptions around access to ‘public space’. Later that year Dominic’s photography caught the attention of The Cat Empire and EMI records who commissioned him to direct and produce, Estudio 101, a documentary on The Cat Empire in Cuba which screened on Network Ten and Qantas flights. After the success of Estudio 101 Dominic returned to Melbourne University Fine Arts, his practice of appropriating billboards and a thesis on contemporary political, interventionist art. After six months producing commercial video with The Pod multimedia, Dominic spearheaded One Cup, a documentary about Fair Trade coffee and East Timor. The film is available for free on the internet and provides insight into the practical realities of trade injustices across the world. In October 2006 Dominic was privileged to be invited to film the Wangkatjunga ‘Back to Country’ initiative, a project promoting traditional indigenous knowledge transfer through language; recording healthy stories, healthy people and healthy country, staged deep in the Kimberley. Dominic is currently working on Ripples, an online interactive web video resource documenting how Australian’s are responding to immigration issues and what work is being done to assist refugees and asylum seekers in the community. |
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