Chaired a panel discussion with choreographer Atlanta Eke, architect Tim Birnie and composer Daniel Jenatsch exploring the interdisciplinary process involved in the creation of their public art and performance commission Sacred Heart Real Tennis Court. The conversation provided insight into their collaborative methods; the themes and aesthetic choices informing the music and choreography, as well as the conceptual and practical considerations involved in designing a large-scale, architectural installation in an outdoor heritage environment.
Presented in conjunction with the public art exhibition Interspecies and Other Others, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne 2022
Hosted a discussion with artists Abdul Abdullah and David Charles Collins addressing the collaborative process involved in the creation of their commissioned photographic series The Interloper; how it investigated themes of nurture and nature, perception, discrimination and division; how the site-specific context informed the composition and display of the work; as well as the ethical and practical implications involved in working with animals.
Presented in conjunction with the public art exhibition Interspecies and Other Others, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne 2022
Hosted a conversation with artist Tony Albert discussing his photographic series No Place, touching on his use of humor and hero iconography within this work and more broadly, his relationship to Country and his approach to working with remote communities.
We also discussed how the site-specific display and scale of the installation, as presented at the Convent, brought fresh perspectives to the fore of the work.
Presented in conjunction with the public art exhibition Interspecies and Other Others, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne 2022
Sacred Heart Real Tennis Court was an architecturally designed installation for public use, performance, projection and sound created by choreographer Atlanta Eke, architect Tim Birnie, composer Daniel Jenatsch and videographers Hana Miller and Jacob Perkins.
Constructed out of industrial scaffold and recycled shade cloth, the installation hosted live interventions, video and a sequence of striped back lighting effects to explore the relationship between art and sport, past and present.
Part of the outdoor, public art exhibition Interspecies and Other Others, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne, 2022
Curated an outdoor, after dark exhibition examining the entanglement of human beings, other species and our environment to ask how the speculative and often contradictory self builds fluid, non-binary relationships with the other.
Public art commissions and site-specific displays were presented across four acres of architectural and garden landscapes, including work by: Megan Cope, Abdul Abdullah and David Charles Collins, Atlanta Eke, Lyndal Jones, Tony Albert, Dylan Martorell, Geoff Robinson, Shan Turner-Carroll, Zanny Begg, Karrabing Film Collective, Almagul Menlibayeva, Marianna Simnett and Yeo Siew Hua.
Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne, 2022