I am currently exploring ways art practice can turn towards new forms of participation that include more-than-humans and the nurturing engagements with family and community. How does art function in the spaces of the local and the non-commodifable? How we can re-imagine art environments and the hierarchies embedded within them?
I am a vocalist and visual artist who is not medium specific or studio centric - I am undisciplined and exploring practice with others in times of extinction and crisis.
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.