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Yandell Walton, Shifting Surrounds, 2019 // The Subtation, Newport | On for only another week or so, these sight specific video projections are incredible. They are a smart and moving and effective take on our climate crisis without being overly emotional or obvious. They are instead subtlety devastating. A creeping feeling that accelerates as you move through the space, like the waves filling the dark room. The videos feel specifically more futuristic/contemporary than other climate concerned art. Maybe because they are slightly apocalyptic and imaginative. Anyway worth a see!! | @mase_windu

Ly Hoang Ly, Hope - Memory Tree, 2019 // Bruised: Art Action and Ecology in Asia, RMIT Gallery | Strength found in a network of memory and perseverance. The collective presentation of all the aspects of Hoang Ly’s ‘protest installation’ or ‘guerilla public art work’ reminds me of Kosuth’s One and Three Chairs. Here we are presented with the layers of activity, absence and interaction created when approximately 300 magnificent old trees in Ho Chi Minh City were cut down. If one trace doesn’t move you, surely another will. Moving your fingers through some salvaged sawdust, witnessing the wood chipper destroy branches, contemplating spending time with trees in your life, seeing a local respond with joy to Hoang Ly’s Hope-memory tree. Together they give the trace of the destroyed trees a strength in otherwise soft memories, mimicking the strength and resilience of the trees in their life. | @mase_windu

Louiseann King, solis, 2018 // Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat | If I wrote an essay about this art work it would be called 'Colonial White Australian Femininity: idleness and ephemerality'. King has responded to a number of colonial Australian artworks in the Art Gallery of Ballarat's collection to create this wonderful installation. These artworks, curated specially around this room, are reflected, refracted and captured by her objects, including polished wooden pedestals, cast bronze birds, pressed flowers, crocheted Australia emblems and glass cloches. This response itself spawns another thousand responses that bounce off eachother and pull me in numerous different directions. In viewing it I felt inspired to think and talk and discuss and engage. A worthy attribute for any artwork. | @mase_windu

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