Anton Benois and Beth Dillon are a Berlin-based, Sydney bound collaborative duo working in sculpture, video and performance. Their practice investigates the figure of the outsider, considering states of dislocation and frustrated experience of place through artist-audience interactions and installation. Their work develops through acts of repetition and exchange, the aestheticisation of everyday rituals and behaviours, and a playful approach to uncomfortable situations.
Benois and Dillon have recently spent the European winter working together at Listhus Artspace in the town of Olafsfjordur, far north of Iceland. Whilst there, the duo undertook a 60 day program of eating only yellow foods as a form of sun replacement therapy, hosted a community sunshine buffet, created a short film documenting the wanderings of a fish out of water, coerced locals into sharing a bathtub of Earl Grey body brew with them, and took an artificial house plant for a tour of the North Icelandic tourism hotspots.
Benois and Dillon are currently working on ‘Wishful Thinking’, a series of publications and video works exploring themes of procrastination and the dynamics of collaboration in remote places.
