Artists statement

'Empty Avenues (Best of Season 1)' reimagines the daily life of the artist through the formal languages of television sitcoms and YouTube ‘Best of’ compilations. By doing so the work engages the concept of narrative identity; questioning the extent to which identity is shaped through media influence, and our potential to reformulate understandings of self through narrative reconstruction. What emerges is an absurd, Existential sitcom that explores themes of meaninglessness, isolation, domesticity, and despair.

Artist Bio
With particular interest in the construction of individuality and the ambiguities of personal freedom, Liam O’Brien utilises personal experience, intuition and theoretical texts to produce video and performance works that explore the human condition under advanced capitalism.

Graduating from the Queensland College of Art (Griffith University) with 1st class honours in 2010, O’Brien has spent the last 9 years developing his practice through national and international exhibitions. In 2013 O’Brien completed a commission for Artbank’s Performutations video series, undertook a residency at 501 Artspace in Chongqing, China and was named a recipient of the Art & Australia/Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award.