Performance
Supersystem Play 2003, Gertrude Contemporary Artist Spaces, Melbourne
The Supersystem performs the role of a conceptual and visual hinge between the abiding themes of desire, use, comfort and play in view of constructing an environment of objects and images. It is an object – a piece of ‘use-art’ that can be played with to reconfigure soft-micro landscapes for resting, lying, sleeping and dreaming within. Appearing in the shape of an ellipse, it unfolds and comes apart in six varying forms, one must arrange, sit, bounce, balance and rely on the practice of ‘play’ to define its use.
Post Object Confession: Head Light 2006, Melbourne
Late on a winters evening in 2006 LeAmon stripped down to her bikinis outside the Euroluce Lighting showroom in Melbourne. Placing a minor’s light on her head she walked through the city streets and beyond to her home in the inner suburb of Abbotsford. In Post Object Confession #5 LeAmon reveals herself and walks the city limits to bring the light home. A performance about light and shadow LeAmon’s small frame appears on video courtesy of urban and commercial lighting whilst her own eyes perform like lamps, unable to see the shadows she casts.
Kissing Moto Milan 2004
Kissing Moto Melbourne 2005
LeAmon has kissed motorbikes on the streets of Melbourne, Milan, Padova and Sydney. A performance series conducted between 2003 and 2006 LeAmon is seen standing at traffic intersections waiting for motorcyclists. Darting in and around the stationary traffic she makes her way to the riders and asks; excuse me, can I please kiss your motorcycle?
With a portfolio of hand-rendered helmet graphics LeAmon walked the vast outfield of the Phillip Island circuit at the 2004 Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix giving impromptu presentations to people wearing Dainese racing apparel. LeAmon used the occasion to seek out the manufacturer’s clientele and ask their opinion on what makes a good helmet graphic. A photograph was taken with each person as a parting gesture and shown to the manufacturer in the company of new designs.
Exhibit 11: A Site For Weathering 1997, Platform Artists Group, Spencer Street Railway Station, Melbourne
A Site for Weathering references the iconic white weatherboard home found throughout the suburbs of greater Melbourne. Secured with architectural deftness to a central column in the underground of Spencer Street Railway Station the installation marked Platform Artist Group's 100th exhibition.
Conceptual Models 2001, Salon Satellite, Milan Furniture Fair
Performed at the Milan Furniture Fair in 2001 Conceptual Models proposes a methodology for conceiving families of diverse objects and things, which, although have different applications in the world are related and unified by the means of a shared volume. This work is speculative, it suggests for example that a chair, table, bag, coffee plunger and a hairbrush could all be generated from the one voluminous pattern. The platform for the performance developed out of LeAmon’s interest in the branding of lifestyle products where disparate objects from numerous manufacturers come together to form an image of a single company. In the absence of branding LeAmon asks; how is a car related to a chair and chair to a bag?
