Amy Lien
Born 1987, United States
Lives and works in New York, United States

Enzo Camacho
Born 1985, Manila, The Philippines
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
 

Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho have been collaborating for over 12 years on a range of sophisticated and though-provoking projects. Over the last few years, they have spent several months annually on the island of Negros in the Philippines, interviewing artists, activists and itinerant sugarcane workers affected by the violent reinforcement of a brutal class system.

For APT10, their group of works was inspired by The Angry Christ 1950, a powerful mural by Filipino artist Alfonso Ossorio located in a workers’ chapel on Negros; and Sylvia Wynter’s theorisation of the humble garden plots nurtured by African slaves in the Caribbean as means of resistance to a dehumanised market economy. Lien and Camacho compare this to bungkalan, the cultivating of small pockets of idle land by hacienda workers in Negros. Their multi-part project includes a folding altarpiece, works on paper handmade from organic material, a zine and an artist lecture.

_{Supported by the Australian Government through the Office for the Arts.}