Justene Williams: Making do rhymes with poo

Making do rhymes with poo is a multimedia installation with video and live performance by Justene Williams. For the duration of the opening week, Williams performed in the gallery, using her body to transform the space through menial ‘work’. The work addresses conscious and unconscious forms of labour undertaken by the body. The title reads both as a way of ‘making do’ with what is at one’s disposal (a nod to the artist’s working-class upbringing and time spent with her father in his wrecking yard) as well as to describe the automatic labour of ‘making’ with the body.