OLIVIA J. BENNETT

I’m an arts writer, researcher and critic based in Australia, open to commissions and collaborations.

I also work as a freelance communications specialist across brand, content and cultural strategy.

If you’d like to see my portfolio or chat about a project, feel free to get in touch.

Gertrude Contemporary Emerging Writers Program | 2020
Melbourne International Film Festival’s Critics Campus | 2019

LURE

Exhibition by Seren Wagstaff & Joseph Botica
@ Outer Space (1 November – 7 December 2024)

Exhibition text by Olivia J. Bennett
Published online and in print by Outer Space

Lures are confusing. They’re mimetic in how they try to replicate the amphibious and memetic in the shapeshifting play they engage with. At first cast, their performance feels calculatedly vulnerable, even as their purpose remains crystal clear. It’s this very calculation that slips through your fingers—a chasm of desire and denial ignited by the anxious churn of choppy water, with Bundy rum sloshing in the boat’s bowels and the chum, both fish and friend, surfacing along the way.

Exhibition text (Front). Retrieved from Outer Space website.
Image Courtesy of the artists.

Exhibition text (Back). Retrieved from Outer Space website.