Queer Australian Art and KINK acknowledge the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of the lands and waters of this continent. KINK conducts its work on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong peoples of the Kulin Nation in Naarm Melbourne, the Turrbal and Jagera peoples in Meanjin Brisbane and the Gadigal lands of the Eora Nation, Sydney. We pay respect to elders past, present, and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.

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The Honey and the Bunny

2011

Description

"The Honey and the Bunny is a love story told via film and a series of photographs that also appear in the film as still images. Honey (an Aboriginal drag queen Destiny) and Bunny (the Rabbitohs’ Charlie Rabbit mascot) are, to say the least, an unlikely couple despite their shared fondness for fur, the colour red and big hair (well, big ears in Bunny’s case). We follow them strolling through Redfern under a moonlit sky until they end up hand in hand under a terrace balcony emblazoned with the word “Love” in a string of fairy lights. The film makes more connections with the game of football and Redfern Oval but the overall narrative is the same. At first viewing the photos and the film appear full of tongue-in- cheek humour, a kind of piss-take on the ultra macho world of rugby league. There’s so much more to them though than this. In the style of a poignant, queer fable, they speak about hope and love in the concrete jungle, and the enduring dreams of the underdog."
Maurice O'Riordan, ‘What’s up, Karla’, Karla Dickens: Home is Where the Rabbit Lives [exh. cat.], FirstdraftArts NSW, Sydney, 2011.

Medium

Single channel video

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2 min loop

Collection

Courtesy of the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf

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