You Can’t See Speed

A major solo exhibition by Greek-Australian artist Tina Stefanou, You Can’t See Speed features a new collaborative commission with blind motorcycle mechanic and rider Matthew Cassar, and surveys the artists’ diverse interests in experimental forms of performance, film, sculpture, ethnographic research and socially engaged practice.

Continuing ACCA’s history of highlighting Australian artists at critical moments in their practice, Tina Stefanou: You Can’t See Speed attends to the interconnected and multisensory experience of film beyond vision. The exhibition continues Stefanou’s interest in the voice as medium; co-creative collaboration, communal gathering and breaking bread; and solidary between humans and animals. Her work is also known to challenge institutions of power and capitalism, embedding the commons – from the planetary to the everyday – and her diasporic, working-class ethic within her work and practice. Tina Stefanou is a Greek-Australian visual artist, performer, researcher, and filmmaker. With a background as a vocalist, she works undisciplined, with and across a diverse range of mediums, practices, approaches and labours – an embodied practice that she calls voice in the expanded field. Stefanou has performed, presented, published and exhibited locally and internationally including most recently in the 2023 Melbourne Now exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria and the 2024 Adelaide Biennial of Contemporary Art. Stefanou was the recipient of the 68th Blake Prize (Emerging Artist Category) and is a PhD candidate in Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.