Irish artist Jesse Jones’ multi-media installation work Tremble Tremble derives its title from a slogan chanted at Italian feminist marches in the 1970s that called for access to abortion and wages for housework. First staged at the Venice Biennale in 2017, in this iteration—and its Australian premiere—Jones summons a feminist phantasm combining a giant from Irish folklore and the figure of a witch to form her own mythological giantess, who reads 'In Utera Gigantae'—the artist's fictional law that proclaims a new social order from a female perspective. Jones has collaborated with actor Olwen Fouéré and sound artist Susan Stenger to create a work of art that extends through the gallery as an expanded form of cinema.

Tremble Tremble was originally commissioned by Tessa Giblin and Culture Ireland in partnership with the Arts Council of Ireland for the Pavilion of Ireland at the 57th Venice Biennale. Sound design and composition by Susan Stenger. Production management and AV programming by Aaron Kelly.

2021 Adelaide//International catalogue essays by Gillian Brown, Rachel Donnelly, Max Delany, Stephen Muecke and Irene Watson.