Tiyan Baker

Hard as You Can

Tiyan Baker

As a desktop documentary, Hard As You Can is the surface of the story of artist Tiyan Baker’s attempted infiltration into real-life fight clubs of sad men in the inner west of Sydney. Beyond that, it traces the connections between that film and online communities of men looking for power and status, spurning heartlessness and malevolent machismo.

The Witness

Tiyan Baker

There’s an internet community for everything. You haven’t even dreamed of the niches within niches out there, in the muddy depths of unpublicised YouTube channels and discussion forums. This is a side-glancing portrait of one internet community: people who post and watch videos of other people dying on Reddit.

Tarun

Tiyan Baker

Tiyan Baker

Tarun was shot during an extended residency in my mother's birthplace in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. The work is a reflection on the intergenerational impacts of migration, the discomfort of confronting ones own cultural heritage and the impossibility of crossing cultural divides. - Tiyan Baker