Performance artist Cigdem Aydemir has long tackled controversial topics that reflect her own experiences growing up as a Muslim woman in Australia.
In 2016, she created a video work in which a blow dryer and fans blow against the beautiful purple headscarf she is wearing making it billow much like the silky tresses of a model in a shampoo commercial.
Her new project wades into even more difficult terrain — what she sees as the incessant social media coverage of terrorism incidents and how that's desensitising society to their occurrence.
The work is called 'The New National Sport' and it sees her standing on a tennis court returning serves from a tennis-ball throwing machine, which ejects a ball whenever the word 'terror' is tweeted on a screen.
It will be unveiled at the Festival of Live Art in Melbourne this week.
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