Liang Luscombe
Liang Luscombe
(b. 1987, in Naarm/Melbourne. Lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne)
Liang Luscombe’s practice encompasses painting, sculpture and moving images that ask how images and film affect audiences.
Itchy IOUs, 2020, is shot entirely within constructed sets and features a cast of puppets, including a giant mouth, Miss Wiggy and Cermit the Frog. The surreal comedy follows two Asian-American women, Fran and Sol, as they struggle with debt. Every two minutes, Fran’s bank balance drops $4.95, and she can’t figure out why. As her balance keeps plummeting, she contemplates extreme actions: bitcoin mining, looting, maybe even selling her teeth. Itchy IOUs humorously asks the audience to contemplate the precarity of individual existence in late capitalism and the impact of image production (advertising, self-presentation, icons and artworks) in contemporary life.
Luscombe received her Master of Fine Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University, United States. She has been included in screenings at Table, Chicago; The Front, New Orleans; The Sunview Luncheonette, New York; Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne; Composite, Melbourne; OpenTV, Chicago; Comfort Station, Chicago; and Vehicle, New York. She has undertaken residencies at Bemis Center of Contemporary Arts, Omaha (2022); Chicago Artist Coalition’s HATCH residency program, Chicago (2019); SOMA Summer, Mexico City (2018); Australia Council Studio, British School at Rome (2013); and Perth Institute of Contemporary Art Studio Residency, Perth (2011).
Itchy IOUs appeared in Community Hall on 25–30 Apr 2023.
Film credits
Itchy IOUs, 2020, HD video, 22 minutes 40 seconds. © Liang Luscombe.
Directed and Produced by Liang Luscombe
Dedicated to David Graeber