WOO WOO
by Ella Baxter (Allen & Unwin, $36.99)
Ella Baxter, runner-up for an Australian novelist of the year prize after the publication of her 2022 debut, New Animal, returns with her sophomore offering. Woo Woo is a sticky and somewhat gory look at the art world, performance, gendered violence, online voyeurism and leaning into the beast within.
Conceptual artist Sabinewhich comprises a series of photographs of Sabine wearing her “gothic skin” body puppets and a seven-minute film of the artist dipping herself in animal blood.