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Kate Mitchell: All Auras Touch
Kate Mitchell, All Auras Touch, 2020 Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia
Interestingly, Kate Mitchell has incorporated the Australian Census into her practice to produce her work All Auras Touch (2020) which brings about a unique viewpoint on employment in Australia and interconnections between workers and the artist. Using the main occupation list found in the Australian Census, and the Aura Camera 6000 which utilises electromagnetic field imaging equipment, Mitchellās goal was to capture a portrait for one of each occupation listed. This project focuses on the 5 wās on the topic of work such as who works? What do people work as? When do people work? Where do people work? Why do people work? and how do people work? From my personal perspective, the answers to these questions can be found in All Auras Touch which displays a variety of people, all different ages, genders and most importantly auras. From Mitchellās lecture, I have understood auras to be the different colours people transmit which represent different energies. These energies which are projected are captured with the aura camera. When viewing these images, I see the connections between body and mind between the artist and the sitter and between the sitter and their aura.
"All Auras Touch is a snapshot of contemporary Australia..." (Mitchell 2020)
Kate Mitchell, All Auras Touch, 2020 Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia
As there are 1,023 portraits of workers being captured in this exhibition Mitchell articulates that different jobs have brought out different ways she would approach the person stating when it was a judgeās or policemanās turn an unstoppable feeling of fear or ānervousnessā would take part (Mitchell 2021). Furthermore, With the vast amount of workers being photographed connections, there are highly apparent connections. By grouping the images with similar auras, Mitchellās work is exhibited as a typology. This is similar to the works of August Sander in People of the Twentieth Century (1927) where Sander captured people of different work and social classes in 1920 Germany, grouping them in typologies of seven categories.
Moreover, the categorisation of people with similar auras, in All Auras Touch represents an interconnectedness that is shared amongst them and disregards the differences in the careers of these people.
References:
Schauplatz für Fotografie, W. (2018, April 18). AUGUST SANDER. PORTRAIT OF A SOCIETY. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MJZPFmulK8
Mitchell, K. (2020). All Auras Touch [Photography Exhibition]. Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia https://www.katemitchellartist.com/#/all-auras-touch-2020/
Mitchell, K. (2021). Kate Mitchell Lecture [80067 Photography Guest Lecture Program]. UTS Canvas. https://canvas.uts.edu.au/
Mitchell, K. (2020). Kate Mitchell [Portfolio]. ALL AURAS TOUCH, 2020. https://www.katemitchellartist.com/#/all-auras-touch-2020/
A Fox News analyst demonstrates how to catcall women successfully.
In Jon Stewart's Master of Sexism sketch he discusses a very real issue for women, sexual harassment. And though his jokes are hilarious and I suggest everyone watch it, you will laugh, it's a very pressing issue in our society. Kirsten Gillibrand, a respected New York Senator, is being harassed by other members of congress. PEOPLE WE ELECT INTO GOVERNMENT! These men are commenting on the state of her body, and one congressman even taking it so far to grope her stomach. Their treatment of her really speaks to the complete lack of respect for her and other women in power. To them she's merely an object for them to ogle or harass. They don't see her as an equal because of her gender. They would never grope a man's stomach, tell him they like their men chubby because they perceive these men as equals. And these are not isolated incidents. Many other women have expressed discomfort at the way their fellow politicians treat them in the work place. As Jon Stewart says, "We all have those stories of people, elected by voters in their state to a six year term vested with the powers to advise, consent, and declare war you would not trust in the 3 to 5 seconds it take to go from 2 to L." There's a complete disconnect here, because how can you trust someone to run your country but not trust them to not attack you in an elevator. It's outrageous and infuriating. This kind of fear and sexual harassment is not the norm. As young women, we've all felt this. Something someone has said or done has made us uncomfortable, terrified us, and yet people, men don't understand the impact this has. Like in the second half of the video, in the segment from Fox new when these women are talking about cat calls, they have accepted this form of sexual harassment as the norm, and it's not okay. As women we are not sexual beings made for man's approval. Walking down the street, a majority of us don't want to know what you think of our butt, breasts, Ā thighs, or what have you. We're not seeking the approval of random perverts on the street. CAT CALLS ARE NOT FLATTERING! They make us, or at least me personally, feel threatened and just gross. The guy, Fox New analyst, isn't flattering women with his clapping. He's objectifying them and is no better than the congressmen harassing Gillibrand. Our fight for equality isn't close to being accomplished. Women are still portrayed as sex objects and until this kind of objectification ends, we'll never be equals.
āThe joke is always on me.ā
Monday March 25th 2013 ā PSM Lecture Series ā Kate Mitchell
A question is beginning to form as week by week we get to know these Australian artists, are they sincere or are they taking the piss? I find it ironic that the one artist blatantly choosing to address humor in her work somehow exudes the most sincerity. Kate possesses a charisma that ropes you in immediately. Standing in front of us, looking every part of the beautiful young artist, she proceeds to fumble through a lecture cursed by powerpoint induced struggles and random oneāliners. She is occasionally egged-on by long time friend Todd McMillan, with whom she shares a slightly self-deprecating sense of humor.
Ā (Kate Mitchell 2012)
Kate is a performance-based artist that explores what she refers to as the cartoon impossible, think Looney Toons or Buster Keaton, both of which are listed by Mitchell as sources of inspiration. However Kateās practice isnāt all about fun and games, she is often addressing ideas of work and work ethic, and labour for her art she does. In her 2012 work, Get into it, Kate uses two plungers to climb up a faƧade sheād constructed herself, and climb into an open window. She not only labors, she quite frankly endangers herself for her practice. She speaks about the fact that in these cartoons, no one ever gets hurt, but when she reenacts these scenarios, itās real. Sheās trying to achieve an āalivenessā through these works, a reminder that weāre living in the present.
(Kate Mitchell 2010)
One work Iād have loved to see in situ for myself is Being Punctual, where she leapt onto a chandelier and swung back and forth until dismounting. I found particularly interesting the differences she mentioned between the behavior and demographic of her audiences when the piece was showed in Paris compared to in Australia. In one case, elderly Parisians gathered on the street with their wine to regard the work, while in her homeland of Australia, it was met with sports fan like cheers of encouragement. Regardless of the response, it looks like fun! I think what resonated with me personally was Mitchell's candor, I always wanted to swing from a chandelier, so I did. āThis is my work and this is what I do.ā
Image References:
Mitchell, 2012, Get Into It, Chalk Horse, viewed on March 26, 2013,
<http://www.chalkhorse.com.au/artists.php?a=MITCHELL&s=1&i=3>
Ā Mitchell, 2010, Being Punctual, Chalk Horse, viewed on March 26, 2013,
<http://www.chalkhorse.com.au/artists.php?a=MITCHELL&s=1&i=7

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Photographer: Anthony Chaing Ā MUA: Rick Flores Ā Model: Kate MitchellĀ