Cinzia Cremona’s relational practice embraces video, performance, participation and digital processes to explore interpersonal relationships and social relations. Exchanges are filtered through the qualities of screens and interactive platforms, and informed by familiar settings such as a shared meal, a conversation, a video call. Paying particular attention to the needs and voices of women, Cremona explores the structures of power that underscore the simplest interactions to lay bare gendered interpersonal dynamics.
In her practice-based doctoral research at the University of Westminster (London), Cremona exposed the potential of past relational experiences to inform present interactions. The artist calls viewers to become absorbed into each work as if addressed in the present moment by an insistent presence. Each screen-mediated interaction reveals something about trust, manipulation, vulnerability or intimacy. In her most recent live performance, On Hand (2024), red dough becomes a metaphor for shared flesh in which emotions, memories, and solidarity meet. The participatory project Convivio (2023-24), funded by Randwick Council, invites a group of women to take their place at a table reminiscent of Leonardo’s Last Supper.
Her work has been collected and exhibited in Australia, Europe, the USA, Russia, China, and Japan.
Biography
An Italo-British artist, researcher and academic living and working on Gadigal Land in Eastern Sydney, as well as a PhD, Cinzia Cremona holds a Bachelor of Art Honours from Central St Martins College of Arts, University of the Arts London, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from the University of Essex.
Dr Cinzia Cremona is a Casual Academic and Student Advisor at The University of Sydney, and a Research Associate at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (University of Dundee), where she contributed to the AHRC funded research projects and publications Rewind Italia (2015) and EWVA, European Women’s Video Art in the 70s and 80s (2019).
Her recently published book chapters include The Evolution of the Virtual Production Studio as a Game Changer in Filmmaking (co-authored with Prof Manolya Kavakli) in Creating Digitally: Shifting Boundaries: Arts and Technologies – Contemporary Applications and Concept and Networked Commensals: Bodily, Relational and Performative Affordances of Sharing Food Remotely in ‘Art and Dance in Dialogue: Body, Space, Object’ published by Palgrave.
As a member of the research cluster Critical Practice based at University of the Arts, London, she is involved in practice-based research, expanded performative events and publications. In this context, she co-edited Transacting as Art, Design and Architecture: A Non-Commercial Market published by Intellect.
Cinzia has worked and lectured in Italy, Switzerland, England, Scotland, and China before settling in Sydney, first an honorary Research Fellow at Macquarie University.
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