Tina Stefanou is a visual artist, filmmaker, and vocalist exploring collaborative formations and socially engaged initiatives both within and beyond art environments, to trouble social class and species representations. She has worked with rural communities, youth ensembles, pony clubs, and family, alongside more-than-human collaborators, including horses, alpacas, a tortoise, kangaroos, rabbits, AI programming, light, and sound. Her practice manifests through cinematic traces, sonic sculptures, live performance actions, and multi-species cine-ethnography. She is currently developing her first solo exhibition at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) and West Space and is a PhD candidate at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.
In this masterclass, Professor Danielle Celermajer, author of the critically acclaimed work Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future (Penguin 2021), will explore creative non-fiction as an approach in making sense of more-than-human worlds. Participants will have an opportunity to read sections of Summertime, and also to workshop their own creative non-fiction writing or experiment with this form.
An online symposium exploring ideas of basic income and the need for an approach to economy that puts creativity and care at its centre. Led by a panel of artists, researchers, economists, scientists and philosophers, the symposium responds to current and ongoing planetary crises, and positions creativity and social ecology as integral to shaping policy and systems of value.
The Symposium is a joint initiative of Arts Front, BLINDSIDE and Next Wave and was supported by the City of Melbourne COVID-19 Arts Grants.