DESTINY (2021)
Film Adaptation / 15:00
Production Aphids
Presented ACCA, Who’s Afraid of Public Space? 2021
Presented AGNSW, Projections #15: Collective Labour 2024
Touring Australia-wide in Artspace’s 52 Actions 2022-25
Winner Incinerator Prize for Social Change 2022

‘APHIDS is one of the most adventurous artistic collectives in Australia’ — Amy Barrett-Lennard, PICA Director

Adapted for the screen from the durational live work for RISING, EASY RIDERS, a cyclical performance unfolds over one 8-hour day. Originally staged as a site-specific work at the Sistine Chapel of the labour movement, Victorian Trades Hall.

DESTINY is a site-responsive ‘art-film’ exploring work, precarity and the physical body in the digital age. A big, fat, clever laugh at Uber, really. Developed through a unique collaboration between artists and on-demand workers of the platform ‘gig’ economy, DESTINY considers how Silicon Valley’s technology and platform capitalism shape our bodies, behaviours, perceptions of time and our imaginaries.

Filmed onsite at Victoria’s Trades Hall, DESTINY honours the experiences and physicality of contemporary on-demand workers within the historical ‘beating heart’ of the labour movement and the eight-hour work day in Australia. In doing, the work brings to sharp focus the very real, very physical, human labour performed by precarious workers who power apps of convenience. Over time, through shared action, the workers transport themselves into a collective space, fleeting but real, of protest and resistance.

Lead Artist & Director Eugenia Lim
Co-Creators Lara Thoms, Mish Grigor
Producer & 1st AD Alexandra George

Worker-Performers Wasay, Cher Tan, Jessica Wen, Mirza Baig

Director of Photography Alex Cardy
Steadicam Op & Gaffer Han Palmer
Best Person Joel Green
1st AC Harrison Byrne
B-Cam Op Bonita Carzino
Drone Op Radar Kane, Josh Labita
Sound Recordist Alex Wakefield

Choreographer Amrita Hepi
Production Designer Imo Walsh
Costume Designer Gemma Baxter
Set Fabricator Stefan Polastri
Art Dept Assist Karli Laredo

2nd AD Priya Pavri
Interpretor Ching Ching Ho
Translation Wasay, Eugenia Lim
Project Administrator Rebecca McCauley

Composer Corin Ileto
Sound Post Facility Folkore Sound & Music
Sound Design & Mix Thom Kellar

Offline Editor Christine Cheung
Online Editor Chris Tomkins
Colourist Dan Stonehouse, Crayon
Crayon Producers Laura Hesse, Meg Doyle

Presented by ACCA 2021
Supported by RISING, Australia Council for the Arts, Creative Victoria, City of Melbourne, Centre of Visual Art (CoVA), Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), West Space, Victorian Trades Hall and MPavillion