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In time. Royal Exhibition Gardens, Melbourne 2006

In autumn the historic grounds of the Royal Exhibition Buildings in Melbourne turn a carpet of orange and brown. This landscape is often blown south into the city grid with leaves amassing in the corridors, doorways and foyers of the financial district. In time is a performance conducted in the early hours of the last Friday in autumn in 2006, wearing a self-made suit of cardboard armor LeAmon works tirelessly to rake the few remaining leaves in the grounds of the Royal Exhibition Buildings into a large pile. A work about time, labor and the temporal encounters in life of which we are destined to experience over and over.

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Conceptual Models 2001, Salon Satellite, Milan Furniture Fair

Performed at the Milan Furniture Fair in 2001 Conceptual Models proposes a methodology for conceiving families of diverse objects and things, which, although have different applications in the world are related and unified by the means of a shared volume. This work is speculative, it suggests for example that a chair, table, bag, coffee plunger and a hairbrush could all be generated from the one voluminous pattern. The platform for the performance developed out of LeAmon’s interest in the branding of lifestyle products where disparate objects from numerous manufacturers come together to form an image of a single company. In the absence of branding LeAmon asks; how is a car related to a chair and chair to a bag?

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With a portfolio of hand-rendered helmet graphics LeAmon walked the vast outfield of the Phillip Island circuit at the 2004 Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix giving impromptu presentations to people wearing Dainese racing apparel. LeAmon used the occasion to seek out the manufacturer’s clientele and ask their opinion on what makes a good helmet graphic. A photograph was taken with each person as a parting gesture and shown to the manufacturer in the company of new designs.

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Kissing Moto Milan 2004

Kissing Moto Melbourne 2005

LeAmon has kissed motorbikes on the streets of Melbourne, Milan, Padova and Sydney. A performance series conducted between 2003 and 2006 LeAmon is seen standing at traffic intersections waiting for motorcyclists. Darting in and around the stationary traffic she makes her way to the riders and asks; excuse me, can I please kiss your motorcycle?

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Post Object Confession: Head Light 2006, Melbourne

Late on a winters evening in 2006 LeAmon stripped down to her bikinis outside the Euroluce Lighting showroom in Russel Street Melbourne. Placing a minor’s light on her head she walked through the city streets and beyond to her home in the inner suburb of Abbotsford. In Post Object Confession #5 LeAmon exposes herself to the elements and walks the city limits to bring the light home. A performance about light and shadow LeAmon’s small frame appears on video courtesy of urban and commercial lighting whilst her own eyes perform like lamps, unable to see the shadows she casts.