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Amanda Bennett

Amanda Bennetts is a Sunshine Coast-based Australian installation and video artist exploring chronic illness, disability, and bodily data, featured in NEW26 at ACCA and winner of the Girra: Fraser Coast National Art Prize 2025.

Sep 30, 2026

7:19
So Amanda, I might just get you to start off and tell us a little bit about the project and we can go from there.
7:24
So Axis Mundi means the central column of cosmology of the world, the sacred central column that a Romanian historian, Michea Eliade, came up with in the 50s as an overarching I did to talk about religion, but it's in itself the idea of this central column, the sacred mountain, it's categorizes as an infrastructure.
7:52
who is worthy to transcend, who stays at the valley.
7:56
So this is a very imposing looking work, brutal, you could say.
8:03
It's two server racks stacked on one another.
8:06
And it is the infrastructure that AI and data centers have that all our actions on the internet run through.
8:15
I was diagnosed with a rare muscle disease and I started receiving ads around funeral, funeral homes, wheel kits, wheelchairs and it was really rupturing.
13:03
And here we've offered a moment to reckon with our relationship with the forces that be.

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